The WwW it EP OPP Y. 
: -PAPAVER ALBUM. 
A Tl and beautiful Plant, kept in our Gar- 
“~ dens, a Native of the warmer Climates. It. 
__ - grows a Yard and half high: The Stalk is round, 
_ dmooth, upright, and of a bluith Green; the 
‘Leaves are very long, confiderably broad, and 
deeply and irregularly cut in at the Edges, they 
are alfo aof bluifh green Colour, and ftand irregu- 
+ larly on the Stalk.” The Flowers are very large. 
_ and white, one ftands at the Top of each Divi- 
1 of the Stalk, when they are fallen, the Seed- 
ffel, or Poppy Head, ‘grows to the Bienefs of 
_ a large Apple, ‘and contains within it a very great 
eee of {mall whitith Seeds, with feveral _ 
fkinny Divifions, == S 
“When any Part of the Plant is broken, there 
flows out a thick milky Juice, of a ftrong, bitter, 
and hot Tafte, very like that of Opium, and full 
__ as-difagreeable. : 
_.. The Heads are ufed with us, and fometimes 
h - Of the Heads boiled in Water, is 
_ ‘made the Syrup-of Diacodium. The Heads are eer 
be dried for this Purpofe,’ and the Decoétion isto 
be made as ftrong as poffible, and then boiled up 
with Sugar. The Seeds-are beaten up into Emul- 
~. fions with Barley-Watér, and they are good a- 
gainit Strangurics, and Heat of Urine; they have 
thing. of the fleepy Virtue of the Syrups, nor 5 
= other Parts or Preparations of the “Poppy. © 
ly, and is fafer than Opium or Laudanum. 
_ _,prum is nothing more than the milky Juice 
_ of this Plant concreted, it is obtained from the 
_ Heads: They cut them: while. upon the Plant in 
the warmer Countries, andthe Juice which flows 
ons ~ out 
p of Diacodium,: puts People to fleep; ‘but 
