Tie POP PY, 
Paparer somniferun, 
O more interesting flower is to be 
found in the garden than the 
poppy, and a certain few kinds 
are extravagantly — beautiful, 
though lamentably short-lived. 
It is essentially a classic flower, 
having from the most, early times 
had a place of honour on the 
brow of the divine Ceres : for it 
was not left for the people of 
this century to discover that 
poppies love to grow amongst 
the corn. Our blazing red 
poppy, that oftentimes, as we 
hurry alone through the sun- 
shine in a railway train, spreads 
abroad in sheets, and suggests 
that we are riding through lakes of blood 
or seas of fire, according as the light or the 
fancy may glorify the common-place fact —this scarlet poppy 
(Papaver rheas) is, in some regpects, distinct from the classic 
poppy, for it has an urn-shaped capsule, whereas the classic 
poppy (P. somnifernim), which is the common field flower of 
Greece, has a roundish capsule, and the fowers are as com- 
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