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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
round, firm, upright, branched, and a foot and a 
half high. 
The ieaves ftand irregularly on it, and arc 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 ac the branching of the 
ftaiks. 
The flowers are fmall, and of a pale red, fome- 
times white. 
The feed-velTel is long, and fmooth. 
This is frequent in the corn-fieids of Eflex, and 
flowers in June. 
Morifon calls it Papnvcr lacimnto foUo captulo 
longiore glabra, five Argemam capiiuio iongiore 
glabra. 
The flowers of thefe feveral fpecies poflefs the 
lame virtues with thofe of the cammon red poppy, 
but in an inferior degree. 
DIVISION II. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
1. Naked-ftalked Poppy. 
Papaver cauUbus nudis. 
The root is long, thick, and furnlfhed with 
many fibres. 
The Brft leaves are numerous, fmall, 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 flalks rife among thefe ; and they are 
naked, weak, and round ; but though they have 
no leaves, they have a fhort ftilf hair covering 
them, very thick. 
The flowers fband fingly, one on the top of 
every fl:aik ; and they are large and yellow. 
The feed-veflTel is oblong and rough, and the 
feeds are numerous and fmall. 
It is a native of Switzerland, and other nor- 
thern parts of Europe, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Argevione Alpina coriandri 
folio. 
2. Prickly Poppy. 
Papaver fpinofum. 
The root is long and fpreading, of a white co- 
lour, and full of fibres. 
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 footflalks : they are oblong, broad, and deeply 
divided at the fides, and terminate in a point. 
The flalk 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 fland 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-veffeis are oblong and prickly, and 
the feeds numerous and fmall. 
It is a native of South America, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Papaver fpinofum. Mori- 
fon, Papaver fpinofum luteum foliis venis albis noz 
talis. 
Both thefe are of the nature of the other pap- 
pies ; but their virtues have not been particularly 
regarded. 
GENUS IL 
HORNED POPPY. 
C L J U C I U M. 
npHE flower is large ; it ftands fingly, and confifts of four petals, xhich are fpread regularly oDen ■ 
± the cup confifts of two oval leaves ; and the feed-velTel is long, flender, fquare, and contains 
only a fingle cell, 
Linnsus places this among the folyandria monogyr.ia ; the threads in each flower being numerous 
and fixed to the receptacle, and the ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit finale 
Mr. Ray joins this to the poppy, not allowi.ng it to be a diftindl genus ; but in this he errs The 
form of the capfule is fo extremely different from that of the co:,„„on poppy, that it juftifies the makin.. 
It a diltina kmd ; and this, like all other well eftablilhed diftinftions, tends to render the fcience 
more familiar. 
Some have diftinguillied the feveral fmall-flowered poppies from the others, under the name of ar- 
gemone ; but as there is not in nature a fufficient foundation for this diftinftion, it perplexes inftead of 
clearing. 
Linnsus, who deferves pralfc for dividing the glaudum from the papaver, which Mr Ray 
omitted to do, lays himfelf open tocenfure, by joining the glaucium with tht chdidonium maju^, from 
which It IS abfolutely diftinft, as we fhall fee in the fucceeding genus. So difficult is it m thefc 
cafes to preferve the right medium. 
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