j 7 2 OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



ilender, and of a yellowifh-white. The ftalks are round, firm, 

 and branched, from a foot and a half to two feet high. The 

 leaves are large, deeply laciniated, and of a bluifh green. The 

 ilowers are large, on the tops of the ftalks and branches, of a 

 bright and beautiful yellow, as intimated by Catullus. 



Oreforidulo nit ens 9 



Alba part henice velut 

 LUTEUMVE PAPAVER. 



The calyx is bifoliate. The feed is reniform, difpofed in long 

 pods or bilocular capfules, divided in the middle by a thin mem- 

 brane. 



For the effects of this plant taken inwardly, I refer to Mr. New- 

 ton's account of it in the Philofophical Tranfactions ; very divert- 

 ing, if he was not impofed on by his C<?rm/7j-hoft, and the Ple- 

 beians from whom he had it, who fometimes put a ruftic jeft on 

 the inquiiitive and curious ftranger *. It flowers in June and 

 July. 



43. Sea-Holly , or Eryngo (k), does not grow with us where I 

 have been. 



p. 857. Hift. Oxon. i. p. 273. Papaver corniculatum, Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 209. Glau- 

 cium flore luteo. Tourn. Inft. p. 254. Chelidonium pedunculis unifloris. Linn, Hort. Cliff. 

 p. 205. Royen. lugdb. p. 478. 



* Lowthorp. Phil. Tranf. ii. p. 642. 



(k) Eryng'um rnarinum. Dod. Pempt. p. 370. Cluf. Hift. ii. p. 169. I. B. iii. p. 86. 

 Raj. Hift. p. 384.. Syn. iii. p. 222. Eryngium maritimum. C. B. Pin. p. 386. Hift. Oxon. 

 iii, p. 165. Tourn. Inft. p. 327. Boerh. Ind. A. p. 134. Eryngium, Offic. Dai. Pharm. 

 p. 131. Eryngium foliis radicalibus fubrotundis plicatis fpinoils, floribus pedunculatis. Linn. 

 Hort. Cliff, p. 87. Flo. Suec. n. 220. Hill. Nat. Hift. PI. p. 319. 320. 



44. Common 



