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The BRITISH HERBAL 
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DIVISION. L 
1, Yellow Horned Poppy. 
Glaucium luteo flore. 
The root is long, thick, fcarce at all divided, 
and furnifhed with numerous fibres. ; | 
The leaves that rife from it are large, and of | 
a bluith green: they have no footftalks: they are 
long, and confiderably broad; and are very | 
deeply and irregularly indented at the edges. | 
The ftalk is round, thick, fmooth, of a whitifh | 
or greyifh green, and two feet high: it divides | 
into many branches, and fupports itfelf very | 
erect. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are | 
large, and like thofe from the root: they have | 
no footftalk, but furround the ftalk at the bafe ; | 
and they are of a pale bluifh green colour, 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, and | 
are large and yellow. 
The feed-veffel is very long and flender, and is 
crowned at the top: the feeds are numerous and 
{mall. | 
It is not uncommon on our fea coafts; and 
‘flowers in June. 
C, Bauhine calls it Papaver corniculatum luteum. 
Linnzus, Chelidonium pedunculis unifloris. We, 
Yellow horned poppy. 
DIVAISTOWN FT. 
Hairy, red flowered Horned Poppy: 
Glaucium hirfutum rubrum, 
The root is long, thick, and undivided, and 
has very few fibres. ‘ 
The firft leaves rife in a great, upright tuft ; 
and are long, narrow, hairy, and deeply divided 
at the edges into flat, broad, obtufe fegments : 
they have no footftalks, and their: colour.is-a dead 
green, 
The ftalk is round, naked, very much branched, 
and of a pale green : this is alfo very hairy. 
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BRITISH SPECIRFS, 
2. Purple Horned Poppy. 
Glaucium flore violaceo. 
The root is long; flender, white, and furnifhed 
with a few fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a little tuft, and are 
beautifully divided, wichout footftalks, and of a 
pale green. : 
The ftalk is round, flender, upright, and a 
foot or more in height, and alfo of a pale green. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are, like 
thofe from the root, divided into numerous fine 
| fegments, in a double pinnated manner. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, and 
are large, and of a deep blue purple, not unlike 
that of the common violet: 
The fced vefféls are long and flender, and the 
feeds numerous and fmall. 
It is found in cornfields in fome parts of Eng- 
fand, but isnot common. It flowers in Auguft,: 
C. Bauhine calls it Papaver corniculatum viola 
coum. 
We know nothing of certainty concerning the 
virtues of thefe plants; but they feem to ap- 
proach to the poppy in that refpect, as well as 
form; their juice being of the fame acrid and 
peculiar bitter tafte with theirs. } 
FOREDGN SPECIES, 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are di- 
vided more deeply than thofe from the root, 
The flowers are {mall, but of a beautiful {carlet 
colour: they open wide, and have fome black 
‘buttons, fupported by ‘hort threads in the centre. 
The feed-vetfel is long, flender, hairy, and 
crowned with a top: the feeds are numerous and 
fmall. 
‘It is common in the fouth of France, and 
flowers in July. 
Clufius calls it Papaver corniculatum phaniceo 
lore ; and moft others have copied the fame name. 
S IIL. 
CELANDINE. 
CHELIDONIUM MAFUS. 
HE flowers are‘fnall, ,and)ftand in. clufters: each is compofed of: four petals, and has a tuft of 
threads inthe centre :.the.cupiisformed of two oval leaves, and fplits open: the feed-veffel 
is long, flender, and fquare, and is crowned at the top. 
Linnzus places this among his, polyandria monogynia, the threads in the flower being numerous, 
and growing to the receptacles and the ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit being fingle. 
This author .does. not, allow, it .a difting: genus or name; but joins it, as I have obferved be- 
fore, .with the {harned poppy, under:the name of &laucium: from this it differs evidently in the fize 
and difpofition of the flowers; and thefe:are: fufficient characters, in the eye of reafon, for a generical 
diftinction, , where there are snot:greater. 
Mr. Ray errs morein thistcafe than: Linnzus; he joins this, as well as the'laft, in one genus with 
the poppy. 
Of this genus there are but two known fpecies, and both are natives of Britain. 
~Y N&XV, 
Pp 1. Common 
