144. 
The ABER TH Ste HR ROBTA E: 
round, firm, upright, branched, and a foot anda 
half high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are like 
thofe from the root, long, narrow, and deeply 
jagged : fometimes they ftand fingly, fometimes 
two, and fometimes three, rife from the fame 
joint, and this principally at the branching of the 
flalks. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a pale red, fome- 
times white. 
Davi 1s .L,0,Ny ik 
1, Naked-ftalked Poppy. 
Papaver caulibus nudis. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves are numerous, finall, and of a 
dufky green: they have long, flender footftalks, 
and are deeply divided at the edges, often quite 
down to the rib; fo that they appear pinnated. 
The ftalks rife among thefe; and they are 
naked, weak, and round; but though they have 
no leaves, they have a fhort ftiff hair covering 
them, very thick. 
The flowers ftand fingly, one on the top of 
every ftalk; and they are large and yellow. 
The feed-veffel is oblong and rough, and the 
feeds are numerous and fmall. 
It isa native of Switzerland, and other nor- 
. thern parts of Europe, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Argemone Alpina coriandri 
folio. 
2. Prickly Poppy. 
Papaver fpinofum. 
The root is long and fpreading, of a white co- 
Jour, and full of fibres, 
(Gara es aN 
The feed-veffel is long, and fmooth. 
This is frequent in the corn-fields of Effex, and 
flowers in June. 
Morifon calls it Papaver laciniato folio capitulo 
longiore’ glabro, five Argemone capitulo longiore 
glabro. 
The flowers of thefe feveral fpecies poffefs the 
fame virtues’ with thofe of the common red poppy. 
but in an inferior degree. 
F.O-R E.E.G.N.» SoReE.Cale RS. 
The firft leaves are very large, and of a dead 
green, marked with white veins, and prickly at 
the edges: they rife in a large clufter, and have 
no footftalks : they are oblong, broad, and deeply 
divided at the fides, and terminate in a point. 
The ftalk is thick, firm, irregularly upright, 
of a pale green, and alfo prickly : toward the top 
it divides into two or three large branches. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and have 
no footftalks: they are long, and jagged at the 
edges, and prickly. 
The flowers are large and yellow. 
The feed-veffels are oblong and prickly, and 
the feeds numerous and fmall. > 
It isa native of South America, and flowers in 
July. ; 
C, Bauhine calls it Papaver Spinofum. Mori- 
fon, Papaver /pinofum luteum foliis venis albis noz 
tatis. , 
Both thefe are of the nature of the other pop- 
pies; but their virtues have not been particularly 
regarded. 
Urs Il. 
HORNED POPpPpy, 
GLAUCIUM.. 
iq Pe flower is large; it ftands fingly, and confifts of four petals, w 
the cup confifls of two oval leaves; and the feed- 
only a fingle cell. 
Linnaus places this among the polyandria monogynia ; the threads in each flower bein 
and fixed to the receptacle, and the ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. 
i not allowing it to be a diftin& genus; but in this he errs. 
form of the capfule is fo extremely different from that of the common poppy, 
it a diftin& kind; and this, like all other well eftablithed diftinGtions, 
Mr. Ray joins this to the poppy, 
more familiar. 
Some have diftinguithed the feveral {mall-flowered 
gemone, but as there'is not in nature a fufficient found 
clearing. 
Linnezus, who deferves praife for dividin 
which it is abfolutely diftin®, as we thall 
cafes to preferve the right medium, 
* 
fee in the fucceeding genus, 
i hich are fpread regularly open : 
veflel is long, flender, fquare, and contains 
numerous, 
} The 
that it juftifies the making 
tends to render the feience 
Poppies from the others, under the name of ar 
ation for this diftinétion, it perplexes inftead of 
g% the glaucium from the i 1 
omitted to do, lays himfelf open to cenfure, by joining the g pane aah We ad 
laucium with the chelidonium majusy from 
So, difficult is it in thefe 
DIVI. 
