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N.-W. Line. E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 6 ; Yhs. Cleveland Gloss. {E.) E. D. S. 
Gloss. C. 2, {Mid.) E. D. S. Gloss. C. 3, (N.) (Seeds); E. Bord. Bot. E. 
Bord. ; (also Pawple) Scotl. ; Moray. El. M. Ireland (Antrim and 
Down), E. D. S. Gloss. 
(2) Sinafis arvensis, L. — Cumh. In E. D. S. Gloss. C. 8 {Oumh.), it 
is said that the seeds of all the Brassica tribe are so called. 
(3) ‘The wild red poppy of the cornfields’ {Papaver BJioeas, L.) 
Yks. (Whitby) E. D. S. Gloss. C. 4. The seed capsules after flowering 
are called Poppy-nops or Poppy-knops. 
(4) Populus, ‘ the poplar-tree. East.' Hal. Wr. W. Cornw. E. D. S. 
Gloss. 
Poppy. The general name for the genus Papaver. (1) Papaver 
Bhoeas, L. — Keiit. (spelt Popy) E. D. S. Gloss. C. 3 ; N. Yks.; E. 
Bord. Bot. E. Bord. ; sometimes (/S.-TF. Curnh. Dumfriesh.) pronounced 
Puppy. Turn. Lib. (Poppi). 
(2) Papaver somniferum, L. — Ger. 
(3) Lychnis Githago, Lam. — W. dies. 
(4) Digitalis purpurea, Y. — Cornw.; S. Bucks. ; Wight. El. Vect. from 
the habit of children to inflate and burst the flower. See Dock, Pop. 
Several other plants are called Poppy : Centaur ea Cyanus, L., is the 
Blue Poppy (Cockayne, iii. 314); Glaucium. luteum, L., the Horned 
(Turn. Names) or Sea Poppy (Lyte) ; Silene inflata, L., the Spatling 
or Frothy Poppy (which see) ; Meconopsis camhrica, Vig., the Welsh 
Poppy; Digitalis purpurea, L., the Green [Cornw.) or Flop Poppy 
(which see); Papaver Bhoeas, L., and allied species, the Corn, Wild 
( EA:5.), or Poison Poppy (which see). 
Pops. Digitalis purpurea, L. — Bom. From the well-known habit 
which children have of inflating the corolla, and then striking it with 
the hand, so as to make a slight report. 
Poret. A leek or small onion. Tusser (Five Hundred Points), 
E. D. S. ed. , mentions it in a list of ‘ Seedes and Herbes for the 
Kitchen.’ Hal. and Wr. have ‘ Pourett, garlic. Herefl 
Posy. Pceonia offi^cinalis, L. — Wilts. N. & Q. 5th S. xii. 291. 
Potherb. Valerianella olitoria is called ‘in English the white 
potherbe, so called for that there is a blacke potherbe, which is 
called Alisander’ (i. e. Bmyrnium Olusatrum, L.). Ger. 243. 
Pot Marjoram. Origanum vulgare, L. — iV.-TE. Line. E. D. S. 
Gloss. C. 6. 
Pottage Herb. Brassica Napiis, L. — North, Pay. 
Poukenel. Bcandix Pecten, L. The same as Powk-needle. Prior, 
p. 186 . 
Pound Needle. Scanclix Pecten, L. — Hal. 
Poverty. Sagina procumbens, L. — Norf. The plant is very indica- 
tive of poor land. 
Poverty Weed. (1) Melampyrum arvense, Y. — 7. of Wight. Hal. 
Wr. ‘ Bears reference, I presume, to an opinion that it exhausts or 
impoverishes the soil.’ Flora Yectensis, p. 357. 
(2) In E. D. S. Gloss. [Surr.) we find Puverty, or Puppety Weed; 
but the above cannot be intended, as it is not a Surrey plant. 
