388 ORD. XXI. Rheades. PAPAVER RHGEAS. 
answers the description given of the germen; it is smooth, marked 
with several Jongitudina] projecting lines, which are in number 
equal to the radii of the stigma; at the top it is scolloped: the 
radii are numerous, minute, and of a purple colour. 
* This plant is common in corn fields, and flowers in June and 
July. It may be distinguished from P. dubium, to which it bears a 
general resemblance, by its urn-shaped capsules, and by the hairs 
upon the peduncles standing in a horizontal direction. 
The capsules of this species, like those of somniferum, contain a 
milky juice, of a narcotic quality, but the quantity 1s very incon- 
‘siderable, and has not been applied to any medical purpose; but 
an extract prepared from them has been successfully employed as 
a sedative.* 
The flowers have somewhat of the smell of opium, and a mucila- 
ginous taste, accompanied with a slight degree of bitterness. A 
syrup of these flowers is directed in the London Pharmacopceia, 
which has been thought useful as an anodyne and pectoral, and is 
therefore prescribed in coughs and catarrhal affections; but it seems 
valued rather for the beauty of its colour, than for its virtues as q 
medicine. : 
* Boulduc Hist. de L’ Acad. Royal des Scien. de Paris, 1712. p. 52. Chomel. 
Pi. usuell. T. i. p. 125. Fouquet of eae prefers this extract to opium. 
‘Sce Murray, App. Med. vol. it. p. 213 
ce. een 
CHELIDONIUM MAJUS. - GREATER, or COMMON 
CELANDINE. 
an AT sR NS 
~SYNONYMA.  Chelidonium majus. Pharm. Geoff: iti. 309. 
| Dale. 210. Alston. i. 407. Lewis. 224. Edinb. New. Dispens. 
170. Murray. ii. 300. Bergius. 451. Ger. Emac. 1069. Rai. 
Hist. 858.. Synop. 309. . Hall, Helv. n. 1059. Chelidonium 
majus vulgare. Bauh. Pin. 144. Park. Theat. 616. C. majus. 
Huds, Ang, 228. Withering. Bot. Arr. 547. Flor. Dan. t, 542. 
