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O. S. Long Prickly-heally'Poppy," Koaml Roy<^i*he'AiW PappyY Long 

 Smooth heady Poppy, (all red,) and White Poppy this last is'the one 

 from which opium is mostly procured. 



HORNED-POPPY. GLAUCIUM. 



YELLOW HORNED-POPPY. Glaucium luteum. 

 Plate 7, fig. 11. 



Take a walk along the sea beach, almost anywhere around 

 the kingdom, in July and August, and on the sandy hillocks, 

 just above high- water mark, you will find the Horned-poppy. 



" There bright as gems of fairy lore, 



Or Eastern poets dream, 

 The Horned-poppies gild the shore 

 With sunny gleam. 



" The threatening clouds, and tempests dark, 



No terrors have for them, 

 When billows whelm the gallant bark 

 From stern to stem !" 



Its flowers are numerous, very large and handsome, of a fine 

 orange color, of four rumpled petals, so fleeting that in a very 

 few hours they drop off, and are succeeded by very long, smooth 

 pods. The whole plant may be two feet high, spreading and 

 much branched, of a whitish-green color, with rough, deeply- 

 indented, thick, sessile leaves. 

 O. S. Scarlet Horned-poppy and Violet Horned-poppy, both very rare. 



CELANDINE. CHELIDONIUM. 



COMMON CELANDINE. Chelidonium majus. 

 Plate 7, fig. 12. 



On banks, particularly near towns and cities ; a straggling 

 and branched plant, very brittle and tender, full of an orange- 

 colored sap or juice. The flowers are yellow, grow in long- 

 stalked tufts, three or four together, inclosed at first in a two- 

 leaved calyx, which is soon thrown off. Petals four, yellow, 

 small, lasting but a short time. Seed-vessel long, large, and 

 smooth. Stems hairy. Leaves less hairy, pinnate, deeply 

 cleft, and scolloped. Leaflets running down the leaf-stalk so 

 as to join each other. It flowers in June and July. The 

 orange juice is very poisonous, and is often used to cure warts 

 upon the hands, and ringworms upon the head. 



