

4©£ Of the Hiftorie of Plants. L i b. z. 



$ 3 mere is a imaiiKiuuc ui rcu iruppy groHriugcuuimoniy wnaetogetuer with 



defcribed,which is leffe in allparts,and the fioures are of a fainter or ouerworn red,inclinine V^ 

 what to orange. x s ° m - 



4 Befides the r e there is another rare plant,which all men,and that very fitly, haue refcrr A 

 the kinds of Poppy. This hath a {lender long and fibrous root, from which arifes a ftalk f om f ° 

 bithigh,diuided into fundry branchesjround^reftedjpricklyjand full of awhite pith. Thel CC °" 

 are diuided after the manner of horned Poppy,fmooth, with white veines and prickly edges ^Th 

 floure is yellow,and confifts of foure or flue Ieaues j after which fucceeds a Iongifti head beiJ 

 thcr foure,fiue,or fix cornered, hauing many yellow threds incompaffing it : the head whileft V ' 

 tender, is reddifhatthetop,but being ripe it is blacke,and is fet with many and ftifFe pricks Th 

 feed is round,blacke,and pointed,being fix times as big as that of the ordinarie Poppy + ' 



f The Place. 



They grow in earable Iands,among wheat,fpelt,rie,barIey,oats,and other graine,and in the bor 

 ders of fields. * The double red and prickly Poppy are not to be found in this kingdorae vnlrl' 

 in the gardens of fome prime Herbarifts. »->«««» 



* The Time. 



Pop pi 



^T The Names. 



t Wilde Poppy is called in Greeke of Diofcorid 



•fiuidum 



the floure thereof foon falls away : which name Rhaas may for the fame caufc be common notonly 

 to thefe,butalfo to the other$,if it be focalled of the fpeedy falling of the fioures : but if it be fyr- 

 named Rfwaspf the falling away of the feed(as it appearethj then fhall it be proper to that which 

 is defenbed in the fift place in the foregoing chapter, out of whofe heads the feed eafily & quick- 

 ly fills 3 as it doth alfo out of this,yet JefTe manifeftly. They name it in French Coequelim, Cmft. 



wnsfauotfauvage : inDutch,COlIetlWoemeaCO|«I ttfttttin high-Dutch, MWOtt fiOftn J in 

 Englirti,red Poppy.and Corn-rofe. 



$ 4 Some haue called this Ficus infernal* ,from the Italian name Figo del infermMx Cbfm 

 and Batthinehauc termed it Papauerjptnofum • and the later of them would haue it,& thatnotwicb- 

 out good re&fonjo be Glaucium of DiofcoridesM*l.ca}>.xoQ. And I alfo probably conieflureitto 

 be the H if pmanes of Cr at ev as ^mentioned by the Greeke Scholiaft of Theecritm,As I haue former. 

 ly briefly declared, Chap.52. 



% The Temperature. 



The facultie of the wild Poppies is like that of the other Poppies, that is to fay, cold, and cau- 

 iingfleepe. 



s % The Virtues. 



Moftmen being led. rather by falfe experiments than reafbn, commend the fioures againft the 

 PIeurifie,giuing todrinke as foon as the pain comes, either the diftilled water, or fyrrup made by 

 often infilling the Ieaues. And yet many times it happens, that the paine ceafcth by that meanes, 

 though hardly fometimes,by reafon that the fpittle commeth vp hardly and with more difficulty, 

 efpecially in thofe that are weake and haue not a ftrong conftitution of body. Bapifla Sarhs might 

 be counted the author of this error,who hath written,That moft men haue giuen the fioures of tbi* 

 Poppy againft the pain of the fides -. and that it is good alfo asainft the foittine of bloud. 



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Chap. 75. Of baftardmlde^Poppie. 



^ TheDefcription. 



THe fir ft of thefe baftard wild Poppies hath flender weake ftcms a foot high,rough andhaine, 

 fet with Ieaues not vnlike to thofe of Rocket^nade of many fmal Ieaues deeply cut or jagg e 

 about the edges. The fioures grow at the top of the ftalkes, of a red colour, with fome in* 



and threddy. 



little round knobs.The root 



nd, 



• 



2 The fecond is like the firft, fauing that the cods hereof be long, and the other more rou 



iff The Place. \ eS 



IdsinSommerfet (litre, and by the hedges and hign-wj 



wherein the difference doth confift. 



Thefe pla 



from Lond 



