42 LONG PRICKLY-HEADED POPPY. 



was formerly customary to boil poppy seeds, 

 in order to induce sleep. 



We have six wild species of poppy, all grow- 

 ing chiefly in the cornfield, though found too 

 on hedge-banks and road-sides. The common 

 Red Poppy is twice as large as that in the 

 engraving. In some country places it is 

 called Corn Rose. Clare also alludes to it 

 under another familiar country name : — 



•'* Corn Poppies, that in crimson dwell, 

 Called Head-aches, from their sickly smell." 



The Long Smooth-headed Poppy {Papaver 

 dabium) is not a rare flower among the corn. 

 It has a large blossom, but its colour is of a 

 paler scarlet than that of the common poppy. 

 A much rarer species is the Round Rough- 

 headed Poppy, {Palaver hj/briditm,) which is 

 found in some of the chalky and sandy fields of 

 Enoiand. 



Besides these, we have a yellow poppy, 

 {Meconopsis Camhrica^ which grows on rocky 

 places in Devonshire, Wales, and Ireland, and 

 a white poppy, {Fapaver somnifcriim,) which 

 grows in some of our cornfields. 



