886 Salmons 
R ubrum, The Wild Poppy, of which in Chap. 574. 
g. Mwcftw xA&tmK » Almachatram Arabic c • Papaver 
Cor nicu Lit um , w/ Cor nut ion, The Horned Poppy , 
of Which in Chap. 57 4. Maxtor dpftSJ'n'f , Papa- 
ver Spumeum , Spattling Poppy, of which in Chap. 
$-]6. following. 
III. Tbe Kinds of the Garden Species. There 
are many forts of this Species, but the following 
are chiefs viz. tevnflt Papaver album fati- 
vum fimplex , The fingle white Garden Poppy. 
2 . Papaver nigrum Jativum fimplex , The fingle 
black Garden Poppy. %. PapaAer rubrum Jativum 
fimplex, Papaver Wore rubro , vel rubente Jativum 
l Implex , The fingle red Garden Poppy. 4. Papa- 
ver album multiplex , The double white Garden 
Poppy. 7. Papaver rubefcens multiplex , The 
double red or blufh Poppy. 6. Papaver nigrum 
multiplex , yit'o pur pur cum multiplex , The double 
friurry or purple Poppy. 7. Papaver Rhteas Flore 
multiplier. The double red or Corn Poppy. 8. Pa- 
paver Spinofum , The Thorny Poppy. 
Tie Defcnptiotis. 
IV. The firft or Single white Gatden Poppy. 
// Roo/ which is white and woody , which 
perijhes as foon as it has given ripe Seed. This 
Jprings up firji with four or Jive whitifh green 
Leaves , lying upon the Ground , which rife with 
the Stalk , encdmpajfing it at their bottoms , and are 
very large , ox we// br<W ox /or£, w/vcb re#/ or' 
torn in on the edges , and dented alfo befid'es. The 
Stalk , which for the mofi part is but one , and fame - 
Toppy Garden fingle white. 
times three , or four Feet, or more high , box /o/ro- 
tmiet no Branches at the top , but ufually but two 
or three , which are the nioft -, each of which bears 
one Head , wrapped or folded in a thin Filme or 
Skin , which bows down before it is ready to blow , 
Herbal * Lib. L 
Mlt ‘p” ri ftng ‘"“l being broken , the flower which 
was folded within it,fpreads it felf open, aniconjifis 
0} Jour very large white round Leaves , with many 
whitijh roundThreads inthe middle. Jet about a f mall 
round green Chaplet or Head, having a Crown , or 
Star-like Cover on its top, which Head growing 
ripe, becomes as great as a large Apple. Bellonius 
Jays, That in Natolia, ( where they make Opium ) 
the Heads are fo large, that they will hold half 
a Pint. In the/e Heads are contained great num- 
bers of white Jmall round Seed, in feveral Parti- 
tions or Dmijions, next unto the Shell, the middle 
thereof, remaining hollow and empty. This Head 
keeps clofe, and opens not at top under the Crown 
as all the black Kinds for the tnoff part do. Alt 
the whole Plant , Stalks Leaves and Heads mbit It 
they are f reft, young, and green, yield a Milk, or 
milky Juice when they are broken, which is of an 
unpleafant bitter Tajle, which naufeates the Sto- 
mach almafi to Vomiting, and of a flrong heady 
Smell, which being condenfatc is called either Opi- 
um or Meconium. Of this white Kind, there is 
another in all things like unto' it, but that the 
Flowers, and efpecially the Heads of Seed , are not 
Jo great by the half, and for the rneft part has more 
Branches upon the Stalks-, its Seed is as white as 
the other, and full as large or great. 
V. The fecond, or Single black Garden Poppy. 
Its Root is like to the former , and. there is but little 
difference to be feen between this end that , until it 
Toppy Garden fingle Hack. 
comes to Flowering', for that the Flowers of this are 
fomewhat lefs, and of a blackifh purple color, with- 
out any purple Spots in the bottom of the Leaf as 
in the next. The Heads of Seed are commonly not 
fo large , as the fecond fort of white Ones before 
mentioned > and opens it felj a little , round about 
the top , under the Crown, fo that the Seed which is 
very 
