276 FAMILY HKRBAL, 



but 



y person ever was 



cured, who becarae thoroughly distempered 

 that bite. One of the strongest instances we have 

 known, was in a person at St. George's hospital^ 

 under the cure of Dr. Koadly^ there was an ap- 

 pearance of the symptoms, and the cure was effect-^ 

 ed by this method. 



Black Poppy. Papavcr nigrum 



A TALL and fine plant, but not so elegant as 

 the former. It is a jard high. The stalk is round, 

 upright, firm, and smooth^ and toward the top 

 divides into some branches. The leaves are long 

 and broad^ of a bluish green colour, and deeply 

 and irregularly cut in at the edges^. The flowers 

 are large and single: they are of a dead purple 

 colour^ with a black bottom. The heads or seed- 

 vessels are round, and of the bigness of a \valnut. 

 The seed is black. 



A syrup of the heads of this poppy is a strong- 

 er suporific than the common diacodium, but it is 

 not used. The gentleness of that . medicine is 

 its merit : when something more powerful is 

 used, it is better to have recourse to opium, or 

 laudanum. 



Red Poppy. Papaver erraticum. 



. A COMMON wild plant in our corn fields, dis- 

 tinguished by its great scarlet flowers. It is a 

 foot high. The stalk is rouLd, slender, hairy, of 

 k pale green, and branched. The leaves are long 

 and narrow, of a dusky green, hairy, and , very 

 deeply, but very regularly indented. The flowers 

 are very large, and of an extremely bright and 

 ^ne scarlet colour, a little blackish toward the 



