[1460] “The all-powerful.”
[1461] The Cichorium luteum of C. Bauhin, the Leontodon palustre of Linnæus: known to us as the “dandelion,” or by a coarser name.
[1462] The kind known as garden endive, the Cichorium endivia of Linnæus.
[1463] “Anthologumena.”
[1465] “Crispam.”
[1466] “Parsley-like.”
[1467] The only use now made of the cabbage, in a medicinal point of view, is the extraction from the red cabbage, which is rich in saccharine matter, of a pectoral, and the employment of the round cabbage, in the form of sour-krout, as an antiscorbutic. The great majority of the statements as to the virtues of the cabbage, though supported by Cato, and in a great measure by Hippocrates, are utterly fallacious.
[1468] De Re Rust. 157.
[1469] “Scintillationibus.”