CHAP. 65.—THE IASIONE. THE CHONDRYLLA. THE PICRIS, WHICH
REMAINS IN FLOWER THE WHOLE YEAR THROUGH.
The iasione[1] has a single leaf only, but that so folded and
involved, as to have all the appearance of being several in
number. The chondrylla[2] 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 pikros.