Dandelion

An introduction to gardens

Many a plants enumerated in this short survey will justly be considered as weeds; for the most insignificant […] have the true weed’s proclivity for a dust heap as if it were the optimum of a plant’s desire. […]

The Dandelion, Taraxacum officinale, Weber, was until quite lately , included in the B.P. [British Pharmacopoeia] for use in atonic dyspepsia, …