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. Papaver fativum (implex nigrum . 
Single garden black; Poppie. 
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and cmptic : this head abideth clofe, and openeth not at the toppe under 
the crovvne, as all the blacke kindes for the moft part doe: all the whole 
plant,both leaves ftalkes and heads, while they arc frefh, young and 
greene, yeeld a milke when they are broken, of an unpieafant bitter 
tafte, almoft ready to provoke calling, and of a ftrong heady fmell, 
which being condenfate, is called cither Opium ox Cfrtecomurn, as you 
fhall heare by and by: the roote is white and wooddy, perilhingas 
foone as it hath given ripe feede : Of this white kinde, there is another 
in all things like unto it, but that the Bowers, but clpecially the head of 
feede is not fo great by the halfe, and for the moft part hath more bran¬ 
ches upon the Hal kes- the feede is as white as the other, and as large or 
papaver great. The varieties of the double garden Poppies are fet forth in my 
fativum former Bookc. 
2 . Tapaver fativumJimplex nigrum. 
Single garden blacke Poppie. 
There is little difference to be difeernedbetweene this and the lall 
mentioned, untill it beareth his flower, which in this is fomewhae 
lefle,and of a blacke purplifh colour, without any purple fpots in the 
bottomc of the Ieafe as in the next; the head of feede is ulially not fo 
bigge as the fecond fort of white ones,and openeth it felfe a little round 
about the toppe under the crowne, fo that the feede which is very 
blacke, will fall out if one turne the head thereof downewards. 
3 • Papaver fativum fimplex fore rubro rubente,&c. 
Single garden red Poppie of diverfe colours. 
There be fome other forts of this garden Poppie, which differ not 
onely fome what in the leaves from the former, being leffer, and in fome 
crumpled and cut in on the edges, but in the jagged edges alfo of fome 
of the flowers, and fpecially in the colour of the flower and feede, for the 
flower of fome will be very red, of others paler, fome of a Role colour, 
othersofamurry colour, either deeper or paler, yet all of them have a 
deeper fpotfomewhat large in the bottome of every leafe : and as the 
flower varieth fo doth the feede alfo, for the Rofe and pale coloured 
flower bringeth gray or afhcoloured feed,the Reddilh and deepemurrey, 
not fo pale feede, but mere enclining to the blacke: the feedes of all thefe 
kindes, the white as well as the blacke or gray, if they be fuffered 
to (Red will fpring up againe the next yeare, and beare every kinde 
4 . Papavet Rhtas. j. PaPaverJpinofnm /.imerUanum. 
Wild Poppie or cornc Rofc. 1 horny Poppie of America. 
