-,{58 Of the Hiftory of Plants. Lib. 2. 
The Place. 
The yellow horned Poppie groweth vpon the fands and banks of the fea : I haue found it grow- ■ 
ing neere vnto Rie in Kent, in the lies of Shepey and Thanet, at Lee in Effex, at Harwich, at 
Whiteftable,and many other places alongft the Engliih coaft. 
The fecond groweth not wilde in England. Angela* Palca, and Bartholemaus ab Vrbe-veterum, who 11 
haue co mmented vpon Mefue, write that they found this red horned Poppie in the kingdomes of i 
Arragon and Caftile in Spaine,and the fields neere vnto common paths.. They doe grow in my v 
Garden very plentifully. 
The Time. 
They floure from May to the end of Auguft. 
T he Names. 
Moft Writers haue taken horned Poppie, efpecially that with redfloures to be Glaucium-. nei- 
ther is this their opinion altogether vnprobablc ; for as Diofcondes faith, Glaucium hath leaues like : 
thofe of horned Poppey, but that is to fay fatter, *«*?*., low, or lying on the ground, of a i 
ftrong fmell and of a bitter tafte.the iuice alfo is much like in colour to Saffron. Now Label and I 
Pena witneffe, that this horned Poppie hath the fame kinde of iuice, as my felfe likewife can tefti- ■ 
fie. Diofcondes faith that Glaucium groweth about Hierapolis, a citie in Syria ; but what hin.de- . 
reth that it fhould not bee found alfo fomewhere elfe? Thefe things {hew it hath a great affinity ; 
with Glaucium, ifitbenotthe true and legitimate Glaucium of Diofcondes. Howbeitthe firftis the j 
Mecon Ceratitespx Papauer cor niculatum of the Antients, by the common confent of all late Wri- 
ters : in Engliih, Sea Poppie’ and Horned Poppie : in Dutch, d6CCll)f Ul and IJOJtriC E)eulc J in the 1 ! 
Germane Tongue, dfjelbomatJJm French, Pauot Cornu •• in Spanifh ,Dormideramarma. 
The Nature, 
Homed Poppies are hot and drie in the third degree. 
The Vertues. 
The root of horned Poppie boiled in water vnto theconfumptionof the onehalfe,anddrunke, 
prouok eth vrine,and openeth the flopping of the liuer. 
The feed taken in the quantitieof a fpoonefull loofeth the belly gently. 
The iuice mixed with mealeand honie,mundifieth old rotten and filthievlcers. 
, The leaues and floures put intovnguentsor falues appropriate for greene wounds, digeft them : 
that is, bring them to white matter,with perfeft quitture ot fanies. 
t The figure that formerly was in the fourth place ofthischap-vnd-’r the title of Pafautretrtiutumluuurn mm f.wasofa Bindcweed called by fAt/fo,f0iv tluukti) il 
fol.^ilthc*. You (lull findc It hereafter in the due place. The Description as far aj I can iudge was of the cornicuhtum which was p 
Chap. 73. Of (f dr den Toppies. 
«[ The Defcription. 
1 TP He leaues of white Poppie are long, broad, fmooth, longer than the leaues of Lettuce, 
whiter, and cut in the edges : the item ot ftalke is ftraight and brittle, oftentimes a yard . 
and a balfe high : on the top whereof grow white floures, in which at the very beginning appeareth I 1 
a fmall head, accompanied with a number of threds orchiues, which being full growne is round,! 
and yet fomething long withal!, and hath a couer or crownetvpon the top ; it is with many filmes 
or thin skins diuided into coffers or feuerall partitions, in which is contained abundance of fmall 
round and whitifh feed. The root groweth deepe,and is of no eftimation nor continuance. 
2 Like vnto this is theblacke garden Poppie, failing that the floures are not fo white and fhi-i. 
ning,bitt vfually red, or at lead fpotted or ftraked with feme lines of purple. The leaues are greater, 
more tagged, and {harper pointed. The feed is likewife blacker, which maketh the difference. 
t 3 Thereis alfo another garden Poppie whofe leaues are much more finuated, orcrefted,: 
and the floure alfo isalliagged or finely curabout the edges, and of this fort there is alfo both! 
blacke and white. The floures of the blacke are red, and the feed blacke j and the other hath both 
the floures and feed white. 
4 There are diners varieties of double Poppies of both thefe kindes, and their colours are 
commonly either white, red, darke purple,fcarlet, or mix t of fome of thefe. T hey differ from the 1 
former onely in the doubleneffe of theirfloures. 
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