B80 OTTLPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBALp 



Pldce. — It is sown onlj in gardens. 



Time, — It flowers in June. 



Oovemment and Virtues. — It is under Saturn, and good 

 to remove warts. The expressed juice is used to make way 

 for the iostruments of surgery; and the whole plant bruis- 

 ed has been applied to remove head-ache, but care must be 

 taken to keep it from the eyes, or it will inflame them. 



POPPY (VIOLET UOIiTiED.y^Chelidoniim 

 Comiculatum.) 



Descrip. — This diflfers from the others, only the leaves 

 are diviaed into numerous fine segments, in a double pin- 

 nated manner. The stalk is four or five feet high, having 

 no branches at the top, and but two or three at most be- 

 low, bearing every one but one head wrapped up in a thin 

 skin, which bows down before it is ready to bloom, and 

 then rising, and being broken, the flower within it spreads 

 itself open, consisting of very large white round leaves, 

 with many whitish round threads in the middle, set about 

 a small, round, green head, having a horn or star-like point 

 shooting out at the head, which, growing ripe, becomes as 

 large as a great apple, wherein are contained a great num- 

 ber of small round seeds in several partitions next to the 

 •hell, the middle thereof remaining hollow and empty. 



Place. — It is common in corn-fields. 



Time. — It flowers in July. 



Virtties. — An infusion of the flowers boiled into a syrup, 

 partakes slightly of the nature of opium. The juice is of 

 the same acrid and bitter taste with the other species. 



POPPY (WHITE, OR OTlUM.)—(Fapaver 



Somniferum.) 



Detcrip. — This is cultivated for its medicinal uses. It 

 has many large, long, whitish green leaves, much torn and 

 cut in on the edges. The stalk is smooth and round, grow- 

 ing five or six feet high; towards the top it is divided into 

 three or four branches, having at the end of each a round 

 head, hanging down at first, but as the flower comes on to 

 open, it grows erect The flower consists of four large 

 leaves, inclosed in a couple of green skinny busks, which 

 soon drop ofl^ when the nower opens; when the flowers are 

 fallen, tne seed-vessel grow as Dig as a large orange, hav- 

 ing a denticillated crown on the head ; it is divided into 

 membraneous partitions, to the sides of which grow the 



