DESCRIPTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
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Smooth and glaucous 2-4° high ; stem corymbose-panicled 
at the summit ; leaves angular or triangular- halbert-formed, 
sinuate toothed or 3-5 cleft, the uppermost oblong and un- 
divided ; involucre purplish of about 8 scales, 8-12-flow- 
ered. Haywood County. Eli Lilly & Co. prepare a fluid 
extract from it. The herb. 
Taraxacum officinale, Web. Taraxacum Dens-leonis, Desf. Dan- 
delion. Herb with perennial rootstock, terminated by a 
tuft of leaves, from the center of which emerge smooth, hol- 
low, leafless, unbranched stalks, surmounted by a single head 
of bright yellow flowers. The involucre consists of an outer 
row of bracts, which are spreading or reflexed, and an inner 
row which are erect. The receptacle on which the flowers 
are placed is flat and smooth, the corollas all strap-shaped 
and yellow. Involucre fully reflexed at maturity of the fruit, 
which, with the expanded pappus, raised on the elongated 
beak, is displayed in a globose body. If the flowers be ex- 
amined previous to maturity, the beak is seen to be very short, 
but it rapidly lengthens as the fruit ripens. FI. March-July. 
Leaves and roots collected separately. 
Cichorium Intybus, L. Chicory. It is at home over the whole 
of Europe with the exception of the extreme northern parts. 
It is a perennial. Its nearest relative is Cichorium Endivia, 
the Endive, which is an annual, a native of northern China, 
and since ancient times known as a culinary vegetable. The 
wild chicory has a long tap-root, and a rigid, slightly hairy, 
branched stem, with a few sessile, clasping leaves. The 
lower leaves spread on the ground, and are pinnately lobed 
or runcinate, and coarsely toothed, while the upper ones are 
scanty and embrace the stem by the two pointed lobes at 
their base. The sessile heads 2-3 together, axillary and 
terminal. Flowers bright blue. The heads are several- 
flowered. Involucre double, the inner of 8-10 scales, the 
outer of 5, short and spreading, herbaceous bracts. Achenes 
striate; pappus of numerous small scaffy scales, forming a 
short crown. The chicory has also from olden times been 
cultivated in culinary gardens, and its blanched leaves used 
