GLAU^CIUM PHCENPCEUM. 
RED-FLOWERED HORN-POPPY. 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
* Natural Order. 
PAPAVBRACE*. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
England. 
2 feet. 
June, July. 
Annual. 
Sandy fields. 
No. 349. 
The origin of the word Glaucium, is found in the 
Greek glaukos, signifying greenish; or more 
strictly, in the original, greyish. Phoeniceum, in 
the Latin, purple; but the Greek word phoinikeos, 
has reference to blood, and its colour. 
This genus of plants was the Chelidonium of 
Linneus, and PapaY'er of old authors. Gerard, how- 
ever, says, “ That by the concordance of all authors, 
for the most part, it is the true and legitimate Glau- 
cium of Dioscorides.” It is the Glaucium cornicu- 
latum of De Candolle. 
When in dower, its appearance has a strong affi- 
nity to the type of the natural order to which it be- 
longs, — tbe Papaver, or Poppy ; its seed vessel forms 
the principal difference. 
It is thought to contain some of the narcotic pro- 
perties of the Papaver somnifera, from which the 
opium of commerce is prepared. Pomet, a French 
author, in his History of Drugs, asserts that the Turks 
use the juice of the Glaucium to mix with that of the 
Poppy, and thereby make an inferior opium. 
Though the' Glaucium, grown in Asia, may pos- 
sess considerable properties as a narcotic, it may not 
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