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THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 



White Poppy. 



Red Poppy. 



opium, it being a common habit with them both to eat 



and smoke it. Opium is made by collecting the juice 



in the morning which 

 has exuded fromincisions 

 made in the capsules 

 over night; those em- 

 ployed for this purpose 

 use a small knife with 

 several blades and go 

 round the plantations 

 scarifying the capsules 

 in the evening, and the 

 juice which issues and 

 forms a thick concrete 

 matter, is scraped off, 

 beaten up, and dried in 



round lumps. About 2,000,000 worth are exported 



from India annually. 



3. RAISTU^ CTJLACE2E (Anemone coronaria) Garden Anemone. 

 (Aconitum Napellus) Monk's-hood. 

 (Ranunculus acris) Butter-cup. 



Besides the above 

 examples, there 

 are many beauti- 

 ful flowers belong- 

 ing to this order, 

 as the Clematis 

 and Peony. Mem- 

 bers of this order 

 are for the most 

 part poisonous, 

 and some of them, 

 as Monk's- hood 

 and Hellebore, are 

 violently so, while 

 even the Butter- 

 cup is to a certain 

 extent acrid. 



Garden Anemone. 



Monk's-hood. 



