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maw seed. The oil is used as a substitute for 

 olive-oil. 



The juice of the Greater Celandine has been used 

 as a cure for warts. There is a short style in the 

 Welsh Poppy. 



Amongst British Poppies there are also the Welsh 

 Poppy (Meconopsis) and Rcemeria, 



Pale Red Poppy [Papavev duhiiwi). 



The name Poppy calls up visions of bright hot 

 summer days, seas of standing corn, with a scarlet 

 glare of colour here and there of poppies, which 

 seem to make the corn more golden, despite their 

 own rich colour. 



All poppies are beautiful, and not all have those 

 reputed qualities of dealing out death or sleep, like 

 the Opium Poppy. 



The one described is to be found in all parts of 

 the British Isles, seldom higher than the limit of 

 cultivated plants, or looo feet. Like other British 

 species, of which there are six, all called colonists by 

 Watson, the pale red Poppy is found in cornfields 

 with other arable soil plants, such as Charlock, 

 Fumitory, Corn Cockle, White Campion, Chicory, 

 etc. Occasionally it grows in the hedgerow, or on 

 the wayside sward, or the borders of fields. 



The habit is erect, with many leaves below. The 

 sap or juice is white and milky, not yellow as in 

 P. Lecoqii. The hairs on the flower-stalk are not 

 spreading, as in the common Red Poppy, but closely 



