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bait • : and the color of the blowers are of a pale 
yellowifh red: both which accidents Clufius fays 
happen to the former , towards the latter end oj 
Summer. 
VII. The third , or Blew, Or Violet colored 
Horned Poppy. Its Root is long and fmall with a 
few Fibres Jdjoyning to it , and perijhes every Tear. 
This grows much lower , and with f mailer Leaves , 
very much , and finely cut in , or rather divided 
into many parts , 0/ green color. The Stalks 
are low and flender , fomething hairy , r/jfag ^ 
much above a Foot , or fw and half high at mofi, 
with fmall Flowers at their tops , //’/te the 
fecond Kind for form , viz. confijting of four Leaves, 
but of a fair deep purple color , tf/wp/? //&■ #77/0 ^ 
Violet : which come fmall , flender and fhorter 
Tods , wr dfeuf 0 Fingers length, in which lies fitch 
like blackifh Seed but final ler. 
VIII. T/v fourth , 0/' Ballard Horned Poppy, or 
true Hypecoum Diofcorides. J/j- is fmall and 
a little Stringy , perifhing every Tear, at the firft ap- 
proach of Winter, is very hardly made to fpring 
again , but by f owing its Seed in Autumn. This 
fmall Riant hat divers long Leaves lying on the 
Ground , very much divided , and cut into many 
parts , of a pale or whitijh green color , fio like unto 
Fumitory in the color of the Leaves , as alfiG fiomc- 
what near it, in the many divifions and parts there- 
cj, that it will fooit deceive one that does but f light- 
ly view it, but is f mailer and thinner , and more 
gentle in Handling. , yet is larger in Spain, as Clufius 
fays, than that which grows with us. In the middle 
of thefe Leaves rife? up a Stalk , fometime two , 
with fome Leaves thereon , which divide or fipread 
out towards the top into feveral Branches: at the 
tops of which fiand fmall yellow Flowers , confifiing 
of fix Leaves , two whereof are larger than the 
reft, and fiand oppofite to one another , the others 
being very fmall and fcarcely difeerned , till the 
Flower is fully blown open. After which fpring 
out long , crooked, flat, husky Horns , or Cods, full 
of Joints, fome what like unto the Husks or Horns 
of the Scorpioides Matthioli, but greater and long- 
er in the feveral Joints of which ly feveral fquare 
yellowifh Seed, very difficult to be taken forth or 
feparated from the Husks or Skins. The Plant has 
a Poppy like Smell, and of an unpleafant Tafie. 
IX. The fifth , or Second Kind of Ballard Horn- 
ed Poppy. This Plant is very like unto the for- 
mer, but that the Leaves thereof are not fo Broad 
nor long , but more finely divided, fomething like 
unto the Sefeli, or Hartwort of Marfeilles, or Wild 
Chervil: The Stalks are fmooth , full of Leaves 
and Branches , which fend forth yellow Flowers, 
made of five pointed Leaves • which being pa ft 
away, long Cods come in their places, which fiand 
not upright , but hang down -, nor are crooked like 
the former , but firaight , and Jointed , containing 
greater yellow Seed, not much unlike to thofe of 
Galega or Goats Rue. 
X. The Places. The firll or Sea Poppy , grows 
upon the Sands and Banks of the Sea ^ and Natu- 
rally by the Sea fide as well beyond Seas, as on 
the Coalls of our own Country in many Places. 
Gerard fays he found it growing near unto Rye in 
Kent', in the Ifles of Sheppy and Thanet $ at Lee in 
EJJex, and Harwich, and at Whit e-fi able, and in 
many other places on the Englifh Shore. It is a 
pleafant Plant, and is now planted in Gardens, for 
its beautiful Afpefl, as well as for its Virtues. 
The fecond and third are Natives of Spain, Aufiria, 
and Bohemia h Angelas Palea, and Bartholomew ab 
Urbe Veter urn, fay, that the fecond grows in the 
Flounlh °nly in Gardens. The fourth 
and fifth grow in Provence in France, in the way 
to Arles and Mompelter , and other places in that 
Kingdom: as alfo in divers places in Spain , as 
Clufius : but with us they are only found grow- 
mg in Gardens. 
XI. The Times. The firll Flowers from May all 
the Summer long to the beginnihg of September, 
and its Seed ripens m the mean time. The fecond 
blowers feldom before July, and gives ripe Seed 
tlle SeaFon proves temperate 
and kindly, otherwife not. The third, as it late 
before it fptings up, 1b it comes late in the Year to 
flowering, for which reafon it rarely gives ripe 
i d with us. The fourth and fifth Flower about 
the end of June and in July, and the Seed is ripe 
later /r > ln lome places earlier, and in others 
Specification, Preparations, 
indVtttues ol the two lalt, viz. the Hypecoa , are 
? UC i h a he Fame Wlth th °k of the Corn Toppy in 
§ P la P ter 3 f° that nothing more need be 
laid ot them here. 
Of the True Horned Foppy. 
XIII. The Qualities of the Horned Poppy. It is 
ail “r \ ot and dr f the third Degree And is 
Ablteifive Aperitive, Diuretick and Vulnerary : He- 
patick, Nephntick, and Cathartick. 
XIV. The Specification. It prevails againlt 
the Strangury Obltaaion of the Spleen, heals 
Green Wounds, and old rotten Sores and Ulcers 
and by its Cathartick Quality, eafes the Pains of the 
bciatica. 
T The Preparations. You may make, x. A_ 
Ltqtad Juice or EJJence. 2. A DecoBion of the 
Rwr. A Ponder of the Seed. 4. An Oil of the 
Leaves and Flowers. ; . A Liniment of the fame. 
6. An Ointment, y. A Cataplafm. 
The Virtues . 
XVI. The Liquid Juice or EJJence. Given to 2 
or 3 Spoonfuls (i( the Juice, being firll clarified) 
in a Glafs of P art Wine, it provokes Urine, cleanfes 
the Rems and Bladder, and carries off the Morbi- 
rnatter of the Gout, Rheumatifm, Stone, OV. 
XVU. lhe DecoBion of the Root in Water. Be- 
ing boiled to the confumption of the one half 
a od then (trained out and Drank, it opens the Ob- 
itruclions of the Liver and Reins, and gives eale in 
the pains of the Sciatica, and admirably provokes 
Urine, giving eafe in the Strangury. 
XVIII. The Pouder of the Seed. Being given 
from the quantity of 2 Scruples to 2 Drams vi~ 
about a Spoonful at a time in Mead or Honied 
Water, it is laid gently to purge rile Belly. 
XIX. The Oil of the Leaves and Flowers made 
by Inflation, or CoBion. It is good to clear the 
Fyehght, and to take away Spots and Films upon 
them 5 for which purpofe it is alfo ufed to the Eves 
of Cattel. 1 
XX. The Liniment of the Leaves and Flowers. 
!t h made of their Juice mixed with Honey and Oro- 
brts Meal, with an addition of Oil of Hypericon • 
cleanfes foul and virulent Ulcers, and that fo pow- 
erfully, that Galen advifes, that it fhould not be 
, ‘“1 1 ““-.“Sr m me applyed unto thofe Sores or Ulcers, which are al- 
Kmgdoms of Arrttgon m&CaJhle in Spain, in the ready cleanfed , leail it (hould confume the quick 
Fields and near Common High-ways j but with us j Flelh alfo. It takes away alfo by the ftrength and 
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