QUALITIES OF THE POPPY. 



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" It is so, and you might guess it by the strong 

 odour of the plant, and of the thick yellow juice 

 which runs from it when you break the stem. 

 It is well to notice this particularly, because the 

 pod which follows the flower is not much un- 

 like that of a cruciferous plant, and it might be 

 fatal to mistake one for the other. The beautiful 

 Escholtzia of our garden, and the yellow-horned 

 poppy we saw at Brighton, also have long pods, 

 but no one could reason- 

 ably mistake them for 

 crucifers." 



Henry asked if opium 

 was not obtained from the 

 white poppy, and his fa- 

 ther replied in the affirm- 

 ative, telling him at the 

 same time, that in the 

 case of this drug, men 

 have turned a blessing 

 into a curse. The chil- 

 dren wondered how opium 



.. - .. . * TELLOW-HOKNED POPPY. 



COULd be a bleSSing tO (Glauciumluteum.^ 



any one, until they were told that medical men 

 use it to subdue pain and convulsions, and that 



