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very black , «»// fall out , if the Head thereof be 
turned downwards . 
VI. T&ff thirds or Single red Garden Poppy. 
T/;A Poppy W various Species , with refpetf to the 
Variable colors of the flowers, yet they differ not 
from the former , but only fomething in the Leaves , 
/fo/i? being leffer, and in fome- ckumpled, and cut 
in or jagged on the edges •, but in the jagged edges 
alfo of fome of the flowers, and efpecially in the 
colors of the flower and Seed : for the flowers of 
fome of them will be very red-, of others paler-, 
feme of a Rofe color ; others of a murry color. 
Poppy Garden [ingle Red . 
either deeper , or paler yet all of them have a 
deeper Spot, fomewhat large, in the bottom of every 
Leaf And as the flower varies, fo does the Seed 
alfo -, for the Rofe and pale colored flower brings 
gray or Afh colored Seed : , the reddifh and deep 
murry, not fo pale Seed, but more inclining to 
black . The Seeds of all thefe Kinds , the white as 
well as the black or gray, if they be juffered to 
Shed, will fpriiig up again the next Tear, and bear 
every Kind, its own color of flower and Seed, with- 
out the leaf degeneration or varying of their forms 
or appearances, unlefs by meer accident. 
VII. The fourth , or Double white Garden Pop- 
py. Its Root is hard, woody , long ^ and perijhir.g 
every Tear, and muff be new Sown every Spring, 
if they do not fpriiig up of their own Sowing, which 
if they do , the flowers are feldom fo fair and 
double, as they which are Sown in the Spring. It 
has divers broad and long whitifh green Leaves, 
giving Milk, ( as all the reft of the Riant above 
Ground does , wberefoever it is broken 'or cut.) 
Thefe Leaves are very much rent or torn on the 
edges or ffdes, and notched or indented befides, en- 
compajfing at their bottoms, a hard, round, brittle, 
whit ijh green Stalk, Branched towards the top, each 
Branch bearing^one fair, large, great flower, which 
before it breaks out , is contained within a thin 
Skin , and being blown open, is very thick of Leaves, 
and very double, fomething jagged at the ends, and 
oj a whitifh color. In the middle of which Hands 
around Head or Bowl, with a ftriped Croton or 
Lover on its Head, very like a Star, compared 
about with fome Threads 5 in which, when it is 
?ipe is contained , in fever al Cells or Partitions 
fmall, round, white Seed. The whole Plant is of 
a ft rang heady fmell. 
VIII. The fifth, or Double red or blufh Poppy.’ 
I his Kind of double Poppy, differs not in any other 
thing from the former, but only in the color of the 
flowers, which are of a bright red, tending to it 
blufh color, parted, and ft ripe d in many places 
with white, and exceedingly more jagged than the 
former, almoft like a feather at the ends, the bot- 
toms of all the Leaves being white. The Seed here- 
of is white as the former, which is not fo in any 
other Poppy, which bears not a full white flower. 
IX. The fixth. Double- murry or purple Poppy. 
This Kind varies both in flowers and Sepd -, altho* 
neither in Leaves, or any other thing from the 
fir ft- The flowers are thick and double, and jag- 
ged al the ends, in fome more, in fome lefs$ 
loppy Garden double white , 
Sect. VII. 
Poppy Garden double black * 
Sed. IX- 
either red, or blufh , or purplifh red, more or lefs ■, 
or of a fad murry, or tawney color -, with brown, or 
black, or tawney Buttons . The Seed is either of a 
grayifh blew color , or (as in ome Plants) more 
blackifh. 
X. The feventh , Double red, or double Corn 
Poppy. This double Poppy is like to the Wild or Field 
Poppy, which is well known to all. It has longer i 
narrower, and more jagged green Leaves than the 
former 
