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CHAP. 65.—THE IASIONE. THE CHONDRYLLA. THE PICRIS, WHICH REMAINS IN FLOWER THE WHOLE YEAR THROUGH.

The iasione1 has a single leaf only, but that so folded and involved, as to have all the appearance of being several in number. The chondrylla2 is bitter, and the juice of the root is of an acrid taste. The aphace, too, is bitter, and so is the plant called "picris,"3 which also remains in flower the whole year through: it is to this bitterness that it is indebted for its name.4

1 Perhaps the Convolvulus sepium of Linnæus; though Fée dissents from that opinion. See B. xxii. c. 39.

2 See c. 52 of this Book.

3 See B. xxii. c. 31.

4 From the Greek πικρος.

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