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edges into many divisions, of a light green 
colour, sometimes hairy withal. The stalk 
is blackish and hairy also, but not so tall as 
the garden-kind, having some such like 
leaves thereon to grow below, parted into 
three or four branches sometimes, whereon 
grow small hairy heads bowing down be- 
fore the skin break, wherein the flower is 
inclosed, which when it is fully blown open, 
is of a fair yellowish red or crimson colour, 
and in some much paler, without any spot 
in the bottom of the leaves, having many 
black soft threads in the middle, compass- 
ing a small green head, which when it is 
ripe, is not bigger than one’s little finger’s 
end, wherein is contained much black seed, 
smaller than that of the garden. The root 
perishes every year, and springs again of 
its own sowing. Of this kind there is one 
iesser in all the parts thereof, and differs in 
nothing else. 
Place.| The garden kinds do not natur- 
ally grow wild in any place, but all are 
sown in gardens where they grow. 
The Wild Poppy or Corn Rose, is plen- 
tifully enough and many times too much 
in the corn fields of all counties through 
this land, and also upon ditch banks, and by 
hedge sides. The smaller wild kind is also 
found in corn fields, and also in some other 
places, but not so plentifully as the former. 
Time.| The garden kinds are usually 
sown in the spring, which then flower about 
the end of May, and somewhat earlier, if 
they spring of their own sowing. 
The wild kind flower usually from May 
until July, and the seed of them is ripe soon 
after the flowering. 
Government and virtues.] The herb is 
Lunar, and of the juice of it is made opium ; 
only for lucre of money they cheat you, 
and tell you it is a kind of tear, or some 
Such like thing, that drops from poppies 
when they weep, and that is somewhere 
a ond the seas, I know not where beyond 
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seeds made into a syrup, is frequently, and 
to good effect used to procure rest, and 
sleep, in the sick and weak, and to stay 
catarrhs and defluctions of thin rheums 
from the head into the stomach and lungs, 
causing a continual cough, the fore-runner 
of a consumption; it helps also hoarseness 
of the throat, and when one hath lost their 
voice, which the oil of the seed doth like- 
wise. The black seed boiled in wine, and 
drank, is said also to stay the flux of the 
belly, and women’s courses. The empty 
shells, or poppy heads, are usually boiled 
in water, and given to procure rest and 
sleep: so doth the leaves in the same man- 
ner; as also if the head and temples be 
bathed with the decoction warm, or with © 
the oil of poppies, the green leaves or the 
heads bruised, and applied with a little 
vinegar,or made into a poultice with barley- 
meal or hog’s grease, cools and tempers all 
inflammations, as also the disease called St. 
Anthony’s fire. It is generally used in 
treacle and mithridate, and in all other 
medicines that are made to procure rest 
and sleep, and to ease pains in the head as 
well as in other parts. It is also used to 
cool inflammations, agues, or frenzies, or 
to stay defluxions which cause a cough, or 
consumption, and also other fluxes of the 
belly, or women’s courses; it is also put into 
hollow teeth, to ease the pain, and hath 
been found by experience to ease the pains 
of the gout. 
The Wild Poppy, or Corn Rose (as Mat- 
thiolus saith) is good to prevent the falling- 
sickness. The syrup made with the flower, 
is with good effect given to those that have 
the pleurisy; and the dried flowers also, — 
either boiled in water, or made into powder 
and drank, either in the distilled water of | 
them, or some other drink, works the like _ 
effect. The distilled water of the flowers — 
is held to be of much good use against sur- _ 
feits, being drank evening and morning 
