48 THE POPPY FAMILY. 



has power to ease many a severe pain. The seeds of 

 all Poppies (except one Foreign species) are mild and 

 oily. And many Plants which contain wholesome 

 properties in one part of their organization ; have 

 deadly poison in another. A poison which is probably 

 equally valuable, as a medicine, or in the manufacture 

 of some useful article, as the other production of the 

 Plant. 



" In human works, though labored on with pain, 

 A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain ; 

 In God's, one single, can its end produce, 

 Yet serve to second too, some other use ! " POPE. 



5. Genera. 



5. RED POPPY. 1. ROMERIA. 



1. WELSH POPPY. 1. CELANDINE. 



2. HORNED POPPY. 



[POPPY. Papava. 



Sepals 2 or 3. Petals 4 6. Stigma sessile, radiated. 

 Capsules, with the seeds on placentas, projecting towards the 

 centre of the single cell, and escaping by pores, beneath the 

 rayed, sessile, stigma (pi. 1. 4 j.) Named Papava, because the 

 Opium was given in pap, (papa in Celtic) to induce sleep. 



COMMON EED POPPY. Papava Ehaeas. 

 Capsule smooth, (glabrous) nearly round, (globose). Scol- 

 lops or lobes of the Stigma, over-lapping each other at the 



