The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECISS. 
I. Yellow Horned Poppy. 
GUuchm lutco fiore. 
The root is long, thick, fcarce at all divided, 
and turnifhed with numerous fibres. 
The leaves that rile from it are large, and of 
a bluifh green : they have no footftalks ; they are 
long, and confiderably broad ; and are very 
deeply and irregularly indented at the edges. 
1 he ftalk is round, thick, fmooth, of a whitifh 
or greyifh green, and two feet high: it divides 
into many branches, and fupports itfelf very 
crea. 
The leaves ftand ifregulatly on it, and are 
large, and like thofe from the root : they have 
no footftalk, but furround the ftalk at the bafe j 
and they are of a pale bluiOi green colour. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, and 
are large and yellow. 
The feed-veflel is very long and flender, and is 
crowned at the top : the feeds are numerous and 
fmall. 
It is not uncommon on our fea coafts ; and 
flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Papaver corniculaliim luteum. 
Linn^us, Chelidonium feduncuUs unifioris. We, 
Tdlow horned poppy. 
2. Purple Horned Poppy, 
Glaucium fiore violaceo. 
The root is long, flender, white, and furniftied 
with a few fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a little tuft, and are 
beautifully divided, without foorftalks, and of a 
pale green. 
The ftalk is round, flender, uprightj and a 
foot or more in height, and alfo of a pale green. 
The leaves Itand 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 ot a deep blue purple, not unlike 
that of the common violet. 
The fced-velTels are long and flender, and the 
feeds numerous and fmall. 
It is found in cornfields in fome parts of Eng- 
land, but is not common. It flowers in Auguflj- 
C. Bauhine calls it Papaver corniculatum viola' 
c£um. 
We know hothing of certainty concerning the 
virtues of thefe plants j but they feem to ap- 
proach to the po-ppy in that refpedt, as well as 
form ; their juice being of the fame acrid and 
peculiar bitter tafte with theirs. 
DIVISION 11. FOREIGN SPECIES. 
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. 
The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are di- 
vided more deeply than thofe from the root. 
The flowers are fmall, but of a beautiful fcarlet 
colour : they open wide, and have fome black 
buttons, fupported by fhort threads in the centre. 
The feed-velfel 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 cormculaiutn phcemceo 
fiore i and moft others have copied the fame name- 
G E ; N u s m. 
\ CELANDINE. 
CHELIDONIUM MJyUS. 
TPIE flowers are fmall, arid ftand in clufters : each is compofed of four petals, and has a tuft of 
threads in the centre : the cup is formed of two oval leaves, and fplits open : the feed-Veflel 
is long, flender, and fquarc, and is crowned at the top. 
L.'mn^us ^hcts this zmong^ hh polyandria jnoNOgyjiia i the threads in the flower Being numerous, 
and growing to the receptacle j and the ftyle from the rudiment of tha fruit being Angle. 
This author does not allow it a diftinit genus or name; but joins it, ae I have obferved be- 
fore, with the horned poppy, under the name of glaucium : from this it differs evidently in the fize 
and difpofition of the flowers ; and thefc are fufficient charadters, in the eye ot reafon, for a gencrical 
diftinftion, where there are not greater. 
Mr. Ray errs more in this cafe than Linn^us i he joins this, as well as the laft, in one genus with 
the poppy. 
Of this genus there are but two known fpecics, and both are natives of Britain. 
NP XV. 
ti Common 
