Hyoseris lucida.
Botanical name:
Hyoseris lucida Linn. Compositae. Swine's Succory.
Egypt. Wilkinson says this plant is the hypocheris of Pliny and is esculent.
Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.
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