^j z Of the Hilforie of Plants. L i b . 2. 
$ 3 There is a fi nal 1 kinde of red Poppy growing commonly vvilde together with the firft ■ || 
defcribedwyhich is lefier in all parts, and the floures are of a fainter or ouerworne red , inclining J 
fomewhattoorange. 
f 4 Befides thefe there is another rare plant, vv hich all men, and that very fitly, bane referred i| 
to the kindes of Poppy . This hath a (lender long and fibrous root, from which arifes a ftalke fome 
cubit high, diuided into fundry branches, round, crefted, prickly, and full of a white pith. The f . 
lcaues are diuided after the maner of horned poppy, fmooth, with white veins & prickly edges : the 
floure is yellow, ahd confifts of foure or fine leaues ■ after which fucceeds a longifli head , being 
either foure fine, or fix cornered, hailing many yellow threds incompafting it : the head whileft it 
is tender isreddilhat the top, but being ripe it is blacke, and ic is let with many and ftiffe pricks. I 
The feed is round, blacke, and pointed, being fix times as big as that of the ordinary Poppy. % • 
The Place. 
They grow in earable grounds, among wheat, fpelt, rie, barley, otes,and other graine,and in the 
borders of fields, t The. double red, and prickly Poppy are not to be found in this kingdome, 
vnleffe in the gardens of fome prime lierbarifts. f 
The Time. 
The fields are garnifiied'andouerfpred with thefe' vvilde poppies in Iune and Auguft. . 
The Names. 
f Wilde Poppy is called in Greeke of Diofcorides, : in I.atine,/’apaafi' erraticum: Gaza 
according to the Greeke nameth it Papaacr Jluidiirmas alfo Zi>£f/,vvhocalsit Pap .Rhis^ts ,becai\(e the it 
floure thereof foonefallerhaway. Wliich name Rhaas may forthfefame caufe be common, not 
onely to thefe, but alfo to the others, if it be fo called of the fpeedy falling of the floures : but if it i 
be fyrnamed Rhccas of the falling away of the feed (as it appeareth) then fhall it be proper to that ‘ i 
which is deferibed in the fifth place in the foregoing chapter, outofwh'ofe heads the feed eafily j 
and quickly fills ; as it doth alfo out of this, yet lcffemanifeftly. They name it in French focqueJI 
licot'confanons, Pauot fanvagt . in Dutch, Colktl hloemeH, Ccueil tOfctl ’. in high Dutch, felSpptt 
Wollcn : in Enghfh,Red Poppy, and Corne-rofe. jj 
4 4 Some haue called tliis Ficus infernalis, from the' Italian name Figo del inferno. But Clu- 
fuis and Rauhine haue termed it Papauer fpinefum : and the later of them would haue it (and that not 
without good reafon) to be Glaucium of Diofcorides, hh.y.cap. ioo. And I alfo probably coniedture j 
it to be the Hippomanes of CratcuM, mentioned by the Greeke Scholiaft of Theocritus, as I haue ior-aj 
merly briefely declared Chap. 62. £ 1 
fl] The Nature. 1 
The facultieofthe vvilde poppies is Tike to that of the' other poppies ; that is to fay cold, and 
caufing fleepe. 
vp The Virtues:. 
Moft men being led rattier by falfe experiments than reafon, commend the floures againft the. ■ 
Pleurifie, giuing to drinke as foone as the paine commeth, either the diftiiled water, or fyrrup ■ 
made by often infufing the leaues. And yet many, times it happeneth that the paine ceafeth by • 
that meanes, though hardly fometimes, by reafon that the fpittle commeth vp hardly , and witfajj il 
more difficultie,efpecially in thofethat are vyeake,and haue not a ftrong confutation of body. Bap-:® 
tifia Sar dm might be counted the Author of this error ; who hath written, That moft men haue gi- ' 
uen the floures of this poppy againft the paine of the fides,and that it is good againft the fpitting 1 
ofbloud . 
Chap. 75. Of Tdaftard wide 'Poppy. 
«[ The Description. 
T Hc firft of thefe baftard vvilde Poppies hath {lender vveake ftemmes a foot high, rough and 
hairy, fiet with leaues not vnlike to thofeof Rocket, made of many final! leaues deeply cut 
or lagged about the edges. The floures grow at thetopofthelialkes,ofa red colour, with 
fome fmalfblacknefTe toward the bottome. The feed is finall, contained in little round knobs. 
The feed is finall and threddy . 
2 The fccond is like the firft, failing that the cods hereof be long, and the other more round, 
wherein the difference doth confift. 
The Place. 
Thefe plants do grow in the come fields in Somerfct(liire,and by the hedges and high-vvayes, , 
as ye trauell from London to Bathe. Lohel found it growing in the next field vntoa village in Kent : 
‘ called 1: 
