(1) The chicory plant can be found growing in areas where nothing else will and it shoots roots that run deep in the earth - probably how it acquired the name succory , stemming from the Latin word u2018to run underu2019.(2) One part succory with artemisia and periwinkle flowers placed as aforesaid is strong against incantations and against assassins and gives security from them, and if with this is placed the tooth of a wolf it protects also from robbers and thieves.(3) In the last week, the Earth had been generous in sending forth dock and succory and starwort and lamb's quarters.(4) The wild plant was also called succory (or u2018blue succoryu2019 because it has blue flowers) in England in the past.(5) This is the succory (Cichorium Intybus of the botanists), described by Emerson as u2018succory to match the sky.u2019
