CHICLANA coffee. For this purpose the roots are kiln-dried and ground to powder in a mill. Though largely used as a beverage, chicory wants the essential oil and rich aromatic flavour of coffee. It forms, however, a not unpleasant beverage; and its cheapness recommends it to the poor. The quantity raised in England in 1850 is said to have amounted to about 12,500 tons. The mixture of chicory with coffee has given occasion for several special enactments; but by a minute of treasury issued Feb. 25, 1853, the question was finally settled, and the sale of coffee mixed with chicory was legalized—under the proviso, however, that each parcel containing such compound be labelled "Mixture of Coffee and Chicory."—See McCulloch's Dict. of Commerce, Lond. 1854.