Tribe. 3. The 'Theater of Tlants. Chap.14, 367 
his owne colour offl°wer and feed, and doe not degenerate or vary, for ought that ever f could obferve. 
4. Papaver erraticum,Rheasfivefilveflre. Wilde red Poppy or Come Rofe. 
The leaves of the wild Poppy, arc long and narrow, very much cut in on the edges into many divilions, of a 
light greenecolour, butnotwhitifh, and fometimes hairye withall: the ftalkeis blackifh and hairy alfo. but 
rifeth not up fo high as the Garden kindes,having fome luch like leaves thereon as grow below, parted into three 
or foure branches fometimes, whereon grow imall hairy heads bowing downe,before the skinne breake, where¬ 
in the flower is enclofed, which when it is full blowne open, is ofafaireyellowifh red or crimfon colour, and 
in fome much paler, without any fpot in the bottome of the leaves,having many b'acke foft threds in the middle, 
compafling a fmall greene head, which when it is ripe, is not bigger then ones little fingers end, wherein is con¬ 
tained much blacke feede, fmaller by halfe then chat of the Garden: the roote perifheth every yeare, and the 
feed fpringeth every yeare of its ownefo wing. Ofthis kinde there is one that is lefferin all the parts’thereof, 
and differeth in nothing elfe. B,mhinus maketh mention of one of this kinde, that bore a great yellow flower, Mlml 
and peradventurc might be the Argemone(lore luteo in the next Chapter,but the plant was onely broughr dry un- f*' 
to him.gathered as he faith in divets wet places, on the Pyrenean hils. 1 he double wild Poppy is deicribed alfo ?!«>»• 
in my former Booke. 
y. P‘,paver fiinoftm. Thorny Poppy, 
Vnto the forts of Poppye I thinke meete toad joyne this Thornye Poppy, not finding a fitter placer which 
hath at the firft, three or more whitifh greene leaves lying upon the ground, ftraked with white veines! which 
growing greater, are long, fmooth, and not hairy,fomewhat long and broad, rent or torne diverfly on the edges 
but not to the middle ribbe, having many corners or dentes as it were about them, whereat Hand many Imall 
fharpe prickes ot thornes,not having any white drakes or veincson the underfide.but in the white milkye veines 
are like to that wilde Cardum or Thiftle, called our Ladies Thiftle, and on the underfide are more 
whitilh, with fome fmall prickes, along the middle ribbe and veines, compafling the. ftalke at the bottome of 
them, which rifeth to be two or three foote high, fpreading forth into diverfe branches, with the !ike,but iefler 
leaves on them, and bearing at every of the toppes, one fmall head, enclofed in a rough skinne orfilme, like as. 
the Poppies have, from whence I thinke rofe the name of a Poppy, given unto it, which being open fheweth 
forth a fmall yellow flower, confiding of five leaves ufually, yet fometimes it will have but foure, and fome¬ 
times fixe, with a imall long greene prickely head in the middle,tipped at the top with a red fpot, which quickly 
wearethaway, and with many yellow threds Handing about it; after the flower is pad, for it conrinueth but 
a while, the head groweth ripe, having five or fixe ribbes from the toppe to the bottome,and fo like wife be- 
tweene the ribbes, armed with very fmall, but cruell fharpe and fhort prickes, or thornes, wherein is enclofed 
round rough blacke feed,twice as bigge as any Poppye feed : the roote is fmall and fpreading,dying every yeare • 
every part of the plant yeeldeth a yellow juice. D ° 11 ’ 
. The Place. 
The Garden kindes doe not naturally grow wild in any place, I thinke, although Diofcoridcs, Galen, ando- 
thers fay, that the blacke kinde chat fheddeth his feede, groweth wilde, for I rather fuppofe that’fome feed hap¬ 
pening thereby chance, fhed it felfe, and fo was thought to grow naturally wilde, and being fuffered to fhed 
will grow plentifully, though fmaller, but in all Countries, at the lealt in all Chrifiian Countries, they are all 
fowen, and not found wild, fo fai re as lean learne, onely the firft wilde kinde is plentiful enough, and many 
times too much,in the corne fields of all Countries, and alfo upon ditch banckes, and hedge Tides: the Iefler alfo 
is found in cornefieldes, but more rarely, as alfo in fome other places. The thornye Poppy groweth in the 
tFell-Indies, from whence the feede was firft brought to us. b 
The Time. 
The Garden kmdes are ufually fowen in the fpring, which then flower about the end of May, and fomewhat 
earlier, if they fpnng of their ownefowing : the wilde kindes flower ufnall from May untill luly and thefeed 
of them all is ioone ripe after the flowring. The Thorny kinde flowreth feldome before Midfomer, and the 
lcede is ripe in Augaft, but is to be fowen in Aurumne, or elfe it hardly fpringeth. 
The Names . 
It is called in Greeke pHxm a rjmlr non miniflrando, epHodvefcentes fui, murfi, fungi non pefftwt - or as fome 
thinke a miiv, ejuodeJM ufus himittm infiigidet, & bominibw tandem motion anferat, the Garden white kinde is 
called »'w©- w* *»®«r.(and o 1 T> wfco r ide, Swu«V« thylaciti, and the blacke feede is called pithiHA bortenfe 
or fativum: the wild kinde is called pW s Rh&as , that is finidum , quiafloresprotinm decidtm • in Latine fapaver 
Rheas eyraticum fttbrnm, or filveflre. THofcorides Galen, and others, make onely the firft great white kinde, 
to be the Garden kinde, and the blacke to be the wilde fort, the Garden kinde is called by the Arabians Caxcax 
by the Italians Papavero domtjhco, by the Spaniards cDormideras and Cafcall, by the French Pavot, by the Ger¬ 
mans Magfiamen and Olfamen, of the Dutchmen Httell and Mancup ; of usin Englijh Poppy, or Garden Poppye 
for the molt part, yet in fome Countries with us', Tone filver pinne, fubauditttr faire without and foule within 
andm many other places Cheeleboules : the wild Poppy is called in Italian, Tapaverofilvatico, in Spatiijb Ama- 
poUs rofetla,mi Papoulas ; in French p>ijttelictc,iPavot fiauvaeezni Confamns, in the high Thttch tongue Clapper 
rofen, and few rofien, in the low ‘Dntch tongue Rooden huel, wilder, had, and Colbloemen, in Engli/h Wild Poppy 
Corne Rofe, redweede, and Canckers, Tragus calleth k Argemone, The Thorny Poppy is called generally by 
all now adzyes.Papayer Jpinofum, but of Qeraid Cardans Ceryfamhemus Perttanmfisy the Spaniard, in [he Indcs 
from whom the Italians had it Figodelfnferno, that is Ficus Infernalis, the Figge of hell, becaufe the prickely 
head is long and round, fomewhat like a figge, and that whofoever fhould have one of them fbeke in his throate, 
it would (nrely fend him to heaven or hell. The milkye juice gathered from the heades onely of the °reac 
white Poppye, growing in the Eaft Conntryes of Afia major, towards India, and in divers other countries of 
thole Indies, (for it is there a great merchandife of much ufeand expence,as alfoin PaphUgoma, Cappadocia, Ga- 
latia Cilicia_ 3 nd Natolia, which is the Iefler Afia, as I faid before,) is that true and beft Op dm, that is or fliould 
„ j Vf'Jl a •'Jr me f ilclnc r s > andlsan ingredient ofmuch refpeft, in thofe great compolitions of Tb&iaefi 
and M,thndatwm,drc. whereof a fmall quantitv.hath beene gathered lit fome Chrifiian Countryes: and my felfe 
and others in our owne land, have gathered a little from the greene heads, as they [land, and are but halfe 
grown® 
