ORD. XXI. RHQ@ADES, 
(From Rhweas the Red Poppy.) ~ 
Including the Poppy and other plants resembling it, 
. — os ee jedadiinaios i, 
PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM.- WHITE POPPY, 
Opium Osclaae ane ae eats succus densatus. 
SYNONYMA. Hiparte’ sdb Hie: Lend. & Edinb. Papaver 
hortense semine albo, & @-Papaver hortense nigro semine. 
Bauh. Pin. p. 170. Rati Hist. p. 353. Synop. p. 308. Papaver 
sativum album. Gerard. Emac. p. 369. Papaver simplex album 
sativum. Park. Theat..p. 366. Papaver. Hail. Stirp. Helv. n. 
1065. P.somniferum. Hudson. Flor. Ang. p. 231. Withering. 
Bot. Arr. p. 552. Relhan. Flor. Cant. p. 204. Mix Grecis.. 
Class Polyandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 648. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor. 4-petala. Cal. 2-phyllus. Capsula 1-locularis, 
sub stigmate persistente poris dehiscens. 
Sp. Ch. P. calycibus capsulisque glabris, . foliis ue ee 
incisis. 
THE root is annual, tapering, and branched: the stalk is round, 
smooth, erect, often branched, of a glaucous green colour, and rises 
two or three feet in height: the leaves are‘alternate, large, ovate, 
lobed, smooth, deeply cut into various segments, and closely em- 
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