ENDIVE

a common garden pla! introduced into Europe from the E: Indies, the bleached leaves of which s used for salads. The long, fleshy, a milky root of another species of the sai genus is cut into Lent dried in kil roasted, ground, and then, under the nat ef chicory, mixed with coffee. T mixture is said to po e a better aror and to be le astringent than pu coffee. [s. 135]