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This plant is equal in flavour to the mushroom when boiled or stewed: it is rather dry, and has little or no scent whatever. CHARDOONS. Cynara Cardunculus. The gardeners blanch the stalks as they do celery; and they are eaten raw with oil, pepper, and vinegar; or, if fancy directs, they are also either boiled or stewed. CHERVIL. Scandix Cerefolium.
Of further plants related to his Satanic majesty is the clematis, termed "devil's thread," the toad-flax is his ribbon, the indigo his dye, while the scandix forms his darning-needles. The tritoma, with its brilliant red blossom, is familiar in most localities as the "devil's poker," and the ground ivy has been nicknamed the "devil's candlestick," the mandrake supplying his candle.
The Viola tricolor is often known as "three faces in a hood," and the Aconitum napellus as "Venus's chariot drawn by two doves." The Stellaria holostea is "lady's white petticoat," and the Scandix pecten is "old wife's darning-needles." One of the names of the Campion is plum-pudding, and "spittle of the stars" has been applied to the Nostoc commune.
Woodville's Med. Bot. p. 551. SCABIOSA succisa. DEVIL'S BIT. The Leaves and Roots. These stand recommended as alexipharmics, but they have long given place to medicines of greater efficacy. SCANDIX Cerefolium. Chervil. The Leaves.
SWEET CICELY. Scandix odorata. The leaves used to be employed in the kitchen as those of cervil. The green seeds ground small, and used with lettuce or other cold salads, give them an agreeable taste. It also grows in abundance in some parts of Italy, where it is considered as a very useful vegetable. WATER-CRESS. Sisymbrium Nasturtium.
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