POPPIES FUMEWOBTS. 25 



This sounds very innocent ; and, as long as we can picture the 

 sleep to be that of the exhausted sufferer, we give the Poppies 

 all honour; but from the "Lethe hours" of the opium-eaters' 

 Fool's Paradise we turn away in sorrow and disgust. This 

 plant is frequently cultivated in England and its heads pre- 

 served for fomentations ; in India, Egypt, and China it is very 

 extensively grown as an article of commerce. The leaf is 

 smooth and of a bluish-green or glaucous hue. These speci- 

 mens were gathered wild near Clevedon. 



The yellow or Welsh Poppy (Meconopsis cambrica), is a 



native of Wales ; but I have found it in the north of Yorkshire. 



It is yellow ; the calyx drops as the blossom opens, and often 



falls into the cup formed by the corolla. The stigma and 



anthers are also yellow, and the leaf is much-divided and hairy. 



The Horned Poppy (Glaucium luteum, Plate II,, fig. 7), is 



another near ally. Its leaf is fleshy and of the same colour as 



that of the white Poppy, and, like it, it clasps the stem. The 



distinguishing feature of the plant, and that to which it owes 



its name, is the elongated horn- shaped carpel. Its petals are 



of a fine yellow. I have found it near Hastings, and Edward 



has specimens from the Lancashire coast. There are a purple 



Horned Poppy and a crimson one ; but they are very rare, and 



we have none of us been able to procure specimens. 



/ The greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus, Plate II., fig. 8), 



/ represents the last family of the Poppywort order. It has a 



/ pod-shaped seed-vessel like the Horned Poppy, two sepals, four 



L petals, and a bright green leaf, deeply lobed and pinnate. The 



juice is orange instead of white, and it has a burning quality, 



so that it has been used to cure warts with. Edward found it 



growing under an old wall near a village in Xent, and I have 



seen it in great abundance about Dornington and Stoke Edith, 



in Herefordshire, and elsewhere in similar situations. The 



yellow flowers are not large enough for the cluster to be gay, so 



the very fresh green of its foliage is its greatest recommendation. 



The small order of FUMEWOBTS comes next to the Poppy- 



