the Paradife of Plants. aaa 
tedious. I fhall therefore defcribe only the ‘paling Poppy, the others being 
better known. 
The Forme, 7 
Spatling Poppy (which doth very little refemble any othet Pot py> but only 
_ the Seed,and Cod, or Bowle wherein the {eed is contained) hath divers weak 
tender ftalks, full of joynts, about a foot or half a yard long, utually lying on 
the ground, whereon grow many pale whitith green leaves,two alwayes let ro- 
gether at the joynts, one againft another ; having many times upon the leaves, 
but more often about the joynts of the ftalks, a certain white frorhy {ubftancey 
like unto thar is called Cuckow-fpittle, or Wood-leer:at the tops of theftalks 
npon many flender foor-ftalks, ftand divers whice lowers, compoted of five 
fmall leaves apeece, with adeep notch in the middle of every one of chem, 
ftanding in a thin loofe {tripped husk, wherein che black feed is afterward con- 
tained: the root iswhite, and fpreadeth inthe ground, continuing fundry  - 
years, 
The Place and Time. 
Many of the Garden-Poppies are to be found in Coyntry Gardens >, but the 
yellow horned. Poppie feorsih upon the {ands and banks of the Sea, neer un- 
py and Thanet, and in many osherplaces a- 
tween Pontfract and phil BN | + They begin flowring in A44y, ahd continue 
till the end of July: che teed oft 
except the {patling Poppy, perifh every year, and {pring again either of cheir 
own or others fowing, 
4 Pp Se rage ° : 
: sere te 
‘The Heads of the Poppies, with their Crowns do fontewhat repre the 
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and weak, and fayeth 
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