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to repeat them more frequently, than to gire a larger 

 quantity. An over-dose causes immoderate mirth or ecu- 

 piditj, redness of the face, swelling of the lips, relaxation 

 of the joints, giddiness of the head, deep sleep, accompa- 

 nied with turbulent dreams and convulsive starting, cold 

 iweats, and frequently death. 



FOFTY (WlLB,y-(Fapav€r Ehceat,) 



Called also Com Rose. 



Descrip, — This has long narrow leaves, very much cut 

 in on the edges into many divisions, of a light green co- 

 lour, sometimes hairy; the stalk is blackish and hairy, but 

 not 80 tall as the garden-kind, having such like leaves as 

 ^row below, whereon grow small hairy heads bowing down 

 before the skin breaks, wherein the flower is inclosed, which, 

 when it is full blown, is of a fair yellowish red or crimson 

 colour, and in some much paler, without any spots at the 

 bottom of the leaves, having many black soft threads in 

 the middle, compassing a small green head, which, when 

 ripe, is not bigger than one's little Anger's end, wherein is 

 contained much black seed, smaller than that of the gar- 

 den. The root perishes every vear, and springs again of 

 its own sowing. Of this kind there is one lesser in all the 

 parts thereof and differs in nothing else. This is called 

 the Welsh Poppy, or Papaver Cambricum. 



Place. — They are sown in gardens. 



The Wild Poppy, or Corn Rose, is plentiful in the com- 

 fields in all parts of this country, upon ditch-banks, and 

 by hedge-sides. The smaller wild kind is also found in 

 corn-fields and other places, but is not so plentiful. 



Time. — The garden kinds are sown in Spring, and flow- 

 er in May. The wild ones flower from May until July ; 

 and the seed of them is ripe soon after the flowering. 



Government and VirtTies. — The herb is Lunar ; and a 

 syrup is made of the seed and flowers, which is useful to 

 give sleep and rest to invalids, and to stay catarrhs and 

 defluxions of rheums from the head into the stomach and 

 lungs, which causes a continual cough, the forerunner of 

 consumption ; it helps hoarseness of the throat, and loss 

 of voice, which the oil of the seed does likewise. The 

 black seed boiled in wine, and drank, stays the flux of the 

 belly, and womens' courses. The poppy-heads are usually 

 boiled in water, and given to procure rest and sleep; so do 

 the leaves in the same manner ; if the head and temples 

 be bathed with the warm decoction, or with the oil, the 



