Of wilde Succorie.
The kindes (las clases).
IN like maner as there be sundrie sorts of Succories and Endiues, so is there wilde kindes of either of them. 1 Cichorium syluestre. Wilde Succorie. 2 Cichorium luteum. Yellow Succorie.
The description (la descripción).
1 VVilde Succorie hath long leaues, somewhat snipt about the edges like the leaues of Sowthistle, with a stalke growing to the height of two cubits, which is deuided towarde the top into many braunches. The flowers grow at the top blewe of colour: the roote is tough and woodie, with many strings fastened thereto. 2 Yellowe Succorie hath long and large leaues, deeply cut about the edges like those of the Haukeweede. The stalke is braunched into sundrie armes, wheron do growe yellowe flowers verie double, resembling the flowers of Dandelion or Pisse-abed, the which being withered, it flieth away in downe with euery blaste of winde. 3 Intybum syluestre. Wilde Endiue. <column-break/> 4 Intybum syluestre latifolium. Medowe Endiue. <column-break/> 3 Wilde Endiue hath long smooth leaues sleightly snipt about the edges. The stalk is brittle and full of a milkie iuice, as is all the rest of the plant: the flowers grow at the top of a blewe or skie colour: the roote is tough and threddie. 4 Medowe Endiue or Endiue with broade leaues, hath a thicke, tough and woodie roote with many strings fastned thereto, from which rise vp many broade leaues spread vpon the grounde like those of garden Endiue, but lesser and somewhat rougher; among which rise vp many stalkes immediately from the roote, euery of them are deuided into sundrie braunches, whereupon do growe many flowers like those of the former, but smaller.
The place (el lugar).
These plants do growe wilde in sundry places in Englande, vpon wilde and vntilled barren grounds, especially in chalkie and stonie places.
The time (la época).
They flower from the middest to the end of August.
The names (los nombres).
Yellowe Succorie is not without cause thought to be Hyoseris, or (as some copies haue it) Hyoseris, ris, of which Plinie in his 20. book 8. chapter writeth; Hyoseris (saith he) is like to Endiue, but lesser and rougher, it is called of L'Obelius Hedypnois, the rest of the names set foorth in their seuerall titles shall be sufficient for this time.
The temperature (el temperamento).
They agree in temperature with the garden Succorie and Endiue.
The vertues (las virtudes).
The leaues of these wilde herbes are boiled in pottage or brothes for sicke and feeble persons that haue hot, weake and feeble stomacks to strengthen the same. They are iudged to haue the same vertues with those of the garden, if not of more force in working.
Texto en la ortografía original de Gerard, en inglés de 1597 (la s larga se imprime como s), transcrito por la Source Library (CC BY-SA 4.0). Un capítulo puede continuar en páginas aún no transcritas. Gerard escribía dentro de la medicina galénica; nada de esto es un consejo.