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PAP AVERAGE AE (POPPY FAMILY) 



fades. When bruised, the weed exudes an orange-colored juice 

 with a disagreeable odor, bitter and acrid, once considered a sure 

 cure for warts, corns, pimples, boils, and "tetters" of every kind, 

 even to the painful felon. It still has good standing in the United 

 States Pharmacopoeia, and the drug market pays collectors six to 

 eight cents a pound for the herb, pulled 

 entire when in full flower and carefully 

 dried. 



Stems one to two feet high, weak, brittle, 

 sparsely hairy, and swollen at the joints. 

 Leaves large, thin, gray-green, once or twice 

 pinnatifid, the segments deeply cut and 

 scallop-toothed ; petioles dilated at base 

 and clasping the stem. Flowers in axillary 

 umbellate clusters, the peduncles about as 

 long as the leaves, the pedicels of unequal 

 length ; stamens many ; style extremely 

 short with two-lobed stigma; sepals two; 

 petals four, bright yellow, arranged cross- 

 wise, each blossom about a half-inch broad. 

 Pods smooth, one to two inches, long, two- 

 valved, opening at the base ; seeds smooth, 

 shining, dark brown, bearing on the side 

 a white crest like a cock's comb. (Fig. 



andme (Chelidomum ma- 

 ins'). X \. 116.) 



Means of control 



Destroy first-year leaf -tufts by hoe-cutting; prevent seed pro- 

 duction in the second year by cutting the flowering stalks while in 

 early bloom. 



FIELD POPPY 



Papaver Rh&as, L. 



Other English names: Corn Poppy, Redweed, Canker Rose. 



Introduced. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom: June to August. 



Seed-time: July to September. 



Range: Semi-arid lands of the Southwest, where seed- wheat from 



