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The naked-stalked or NORWAY 

 POPPY, Papaver Nudicaide, 



Which produces a yellow flower, with a fragrance 

 similar to that of the Jonquil, especially in the 

 morning and evening, is a hardy perennial plant, 

 raised from seed sown either in the autumn or 

 the spring. This species was first cultivated in 

 England in 1730. The seed was procured from 

 the eastern confines of the Russian empire, from 

 the province of Argunsky, in Siberia, in lat. 51, 

 from whence they were sent by Heidenreich, and 

 forwarded to the Eltham garden by J. H. de 

 Heidenreich. The flowers of this species con- 

 tinue in succession from June to August, and they 

 sometimes vary to a pure white. 



To our History of the White Poppy*, Papaver 

 Sommfomm, and the dangerous drug which is 

 produced from it, we have but little to add unless 

 we quote Drayton as an additional caution, to 

 those we have already given: 



" Here Henbane, Poppy, Hemlock here. 

 Procuring- deadly-sleeping-: 

 Which I do minister with fear ; 

 Not fit for each man's keeping-." 



♦ Histonj of Cult. Feg. Vol. ii. 



