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corides calls waqtf. It is certainly 
the weed, injurious to the farmer, 
which Virgil fo drolly links with the 
geefe and cranes. 
- nihil improbus (infer 
Stramoniteque grues, et amaris Intubajibris 
Officiunt. 
Poflibly it was this fpecies of cichorium 
that made a part of Horace's fallad, 
Me pafcunt oltv&, 
Me cichorea t levefque mahte. 
And that, by 0/iW, he meant the oil 
which he eat with it. But it is more proba- 
ble, I think, that he fpeaks of the Cichorium 
endivia, the plant which we call Endive: 
and yet, if he could eat mallows, he might 
alfo eat Succory. 
Near the plant you have juft ex-^rflf- 
amined, there is another more univer- um * 
fally common, and which, as you will 
find in your Synopjis, immediately fol- 
lows the Cichorium. It is the Artfium 
lappa of Linnaeus, our Burdock, or 
Clotbur; the famous Bardana of the 
famous Dr. Hill. Arftium is the an- 
cient 
