28 CULPEPER*s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
them, and are very large, muchcut or torn inon the edges, and dentedalfo. The 
italk, which is ufually four or five feet high, hath fometimes no branches at the top, 
and ufually but two or three at moft, bearing but one head, each wrapped in a thin 
Akin, which boweth down before it be ready to blow, and then, rifing and being 
broken, the flower within it {preadeth itfelf open, and confifteth of four very large 
round white leaves, with many whitifh round threads in the middle, fet about a fmal} 
round green head, having a crown, or ftar-like cover at the head thereof, which, 
growing ripe, becometh as large as a great apple, wherein are contained a great num- 
ber of {mall round feed, in feveral partitions or divifions next unto the fhell, the 
middle thereof remaining hollow and empty. All the whole plant, leaves, ftalks, 
and heads, while they are frefh, young, and green, yield a milk, when they are 
broken, of an unpleafant bitter tafte, almoft ready to provoke puking, and of a 
ftrong heady fmell, which, being condenfed, is called opium. The root is white and 
woody, perifhing as foon as it hath given ripe feed. 
The black poppy differeth but little from the former, until it beareth its flower, 
which is fomewhat lefs, and of a black purplifh colour, but without any purple {pots 
in the bottom of the leaf. The head of feed is much lefs than the former, and open- 
eth itfelf a little round about the top, under the crown, fo that the feed, which is very 
black, will fall out, if the head is turned downwards. 
The wild poppy, or corn rofe, hath long and narrow leaves, very much cut in on 
the edges into many divifions, of a light green colour, and fometimes hairy withal: 
the ftalk is blackifh and hairy alfo, but not fo tall as the garden kinds, having 
fome fuch like leaves thereon as grow below, parted into three or four branches 
fometimes, whereon grow fmall hairy heads, bowing down before the skin breaks 
wherein the flower is inclofed, which, when it is full-blown, is of a fair yellowith 
_ red or crimfon colour, and in fome much paler, without any fpot in the bottom of 
, the leaves, having many black foft {pots in the middle, compafling a fmall green 
head _ which, when it is ripe, is no larger than one’s little finger end, wherein is 
aed 1 much black feed, fmaller by half than that of the garden. The root 
srifheth every year, and fpringeth again of its own fowing. Of this kind there is 
one 1 Smaller i in all the parts thereof, but differeth in nothing, elfe. 
Piace. The garden kinds do not naturally grow wild in any place, but are al 
fown in gardens, where they grow. The wild poppy, or corn-rofe, is plentiful 
enough, and many times too much fo, in the corn fields in all parts of the kingdom, 
alfo upon the banks of ditches and by hedge-fides. The fmaller wild kind isalfo 
be met with in thofe places, Lect not fo plentifully as the former. a 
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