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heads as big as oranges, flatted at top and bottom, and having an 

 indented crown or stigma: the seeds are white. It is a native of the 

 southern parts of Europe, but probably originally from Asia. 



There are several varieties, differing in the colour and multipli- 

 city of their petals, which are preserved in gardens for ornament: the 

 Single-flowered sort is chiefly cultivated for use. 



The Common Black variety of Poppy has stalks about three feet 

 high, smooth, and dividing into several branches : the leaves are 

 large, smooth, deeply cut or jagged on their edges, and embracing: 

 the petals purple with dark bottoms ; succeeded by oval smooth 

 capsules filled with black seeds, which are sold under the name of 

 Maw-seed. 



Of this there -are many sub-varieties: as with large double flowers, 

 variegated of several colours; with red and white, purple and while, 

 and some finely spotted like Carnations. 



There are few plants whose flowers are so handsome ; but as 

 they have an offensive scent, and are of short duration, they are not 

 in general much regarded : they are annual, flowering in June. 



The second species has the stem from one to two feet high, up- 

 right, round, branched, purplish at bottom, with spreading hairs, 

 bulbose at the base: the leaves are sessile, forming a kind of sheath 

 at bottom, hairy on both sides; the segments or leaflets unequally 

 toothed or serrate, each tooth rolled back at the edge, callous at 

 top, and terminated by a small spine : the peduncles long, round, 

 upright, one-flowered, red, the hairs on it spreading horizontally. 

 It is a native of every part of Europe, &c. flowering from June to 

 August. 



There is a variety with an oval black shining spot at the base of 

 each petal, from which many beautiful garden sub-varieties are pro- 

 duced which have double flowers, white, red bordered with white, 

 and variegated. 



In the third the stalks are a foot high, and smooth: the pinnas 

 of the leaves are deeply cut on their edges; and there are a few 

 small leaves on the stalk shaped like the lower ones: the upper part 

 of the stalk is naked, and sustains one large yellow flower, appear- 



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