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Show a > 66 Cwar,34. Theatriim Botanicum. Trine. aver fativam fimplex nigrum, and emptie : this head abideth clofe, and openethnot at the toppe under the crowne, as all the blacke kindes for the molt part doe ; all the whole ein Blakes caus sle garden black Poppie, plant, bothleaves ftalkes and heads, while they are frefh, young and in fome muchpaler, without any fpotin the bottome of the leaves,having many blacke foft threds in the middie, cotnpaffing a fmall greene head, which whenitis ripe, is not bigger then ones little fmgers end, wherein is con- tained muchblacke feede, fmaller by halfethen that oftheGarden: the roote perifheth every yeare, and the feed {pringeth every yeare of its owne fowing. Of this kinde there is one thatis lefferin all the parts thereof, and differeth in nothing elfe. -Bawhines maketh mention ofone of thiskinde, that bore a great yellow flower, asinu: and peradventure might be the Argemone flore luteo in the next Chapter,but the plant was onely brought dry un= Fiore Papac er fativnmfimplesx migrim, to him,gathered ashe faithin divers wetplaces, onthe Pyreneahils, The double wild Poppy is defcribed alfo plea Single garden blacke Poppic. Thereis little difference to be difcerned betweene this and the laft in my former Booke, mentioned, ‘untillit beareth his fower , which in this is fomewhat hath atthe firft, three or more whitifh greene leaves lying upon the ground, ftraked with white veines, which growing greater, are long, {mooth, andnot hairy.fomewhat long andbroad, rent or torne diverfly on the edges, bigge’as the fecorid fort of white ones,and openethit felfe a little round but nottothe middleribbe, having many corners or dentesas it were abour them, whereat ftand many {mall about -the toppe’ urider the crowiié, fo thatthe feede whichis very fharpe prickes or thornes,not having any white ftrakes or veineson the underfide,but inthe white milkye veines are like to that wilde Cardzus or Thiftle, called our Ladies Thiftle, and on the underfide are more blacke, will fall out if one turne the head thereof downewards. 30 Papaver fativunt fimplexflorerabro rubente,GCe Single'gardénred Poppie ofdiverfe colours. ¢ There be fome other forts of this garden Poppie, whichdiffer not A$ onely fomewhatin the leaves fromtheformer, being leffer, and in fome BSS crumpled and cut in-on theedges, but in the jagged edgesalfo of fome of the fowers,and {pecially in the colour of the ower andfeede,for the flower of fomewill be very red, of others paler; fome ofa Rofe colour, others of a nutty colour, either deeper or paler, yet all of them have a whitith, withfome {imall prickes, along the middle ribbeand.veines, compaffing the ftalke at the bottomé of them, whichrifeth to betwoorthree footehigh, {preading forthinto diverfe branches, withthe like,bucleffer leaves on them, and bearing at every ofthe toppes, one {mall head, enclofed in a roughskinne orfilme,like as the Poppieshave, from whenceIthinke rofe the name of a Poppy, given unto it, which being. open fheweth forth a {mall yellow flower, confifting of five leavesufually, yet fometimes it will have but foure, and fome= timesfixe, witha {mall long greene prickely headin the middle,tipped at the top withared fpot, which quickly weareth away, and with manyyellow threds ftanding about it ; afterthe floweris palt, for ic continueth buc a while, the head groweth ripe, havingfive or fixe ribbes from the toppe to the bottome,aed fo likewile be= tweene theribbes, armed with very {mall, but cruell fharpe and fhort prickes, or thornes,wherein is enclofed round roughblacke feed,twice as bigge as any Poppyefeed : theroote is {mall and fpreading, dying every yeares and as the flower’ varieth fo doth the feede alfo, for the Rofe and pale coloured flower bringeth gray or afhcoloured feed,the Réddifh and deepemurrey, every part ofthe plant yeeldetha yellowjuice. not fo pale feede, but mere enclining to the blackes the feedes ofall thefe Kindes, the white as well as the blacke or gray, if they be faffered to thed will {pring up againe the next _yeare, and béare every kinde i 5. Papaver(hinsfum. Thorny Poppy. Vnto the forts of Poppye! thinke meete toad joyne this Thornye Poppy, notfinding a fitter place ; which lefie,and of a blacke purplifh colour, without anypurple fpots inthe bottome of the leafe as inthe pext ; the head of {eede is ufially not fo 4. Papaver Rhea. his owne colour of flower and feed; and doe not degenerate orvary; for ought that ever I could obferve. 4. Papaver erraticum, Rheas five fluefire, Wildered Poppy or Corneé Rofe. in the flowerisenclofed, which whenit is full blowneopen, is of a faire yellowih red or crimfon colour, and former Booke. ‘Wild Poppic or corne Rofe. 367 light greene colour, but not whitifh, and fometimes hairye withall : the ftalkeis blackifh and hairy alfo, bue rifethnot upfo high as the Garden kindes,having fomefach li ce leaves thereonas grow below, parted into three or foure branehes fometimes; whereon grow {mall hairy heads bowing downe,before the skinne breake, where, tate, almoft ready to provoke cafting, and of a ftrong heady {mell, which being condenfate, is called either Opiumor Meconium, as you fhall hearebyarid by = the roote is white and wooddy, petithing as foone asit hathsiven ripe feede : Of this white kinde, there is another in all chingslike nnto it, but that the flowers; but efpecially the head of feedeix not fo great by the halfe, and for the mioft part hath more branches upon the flakes ; the feede isas white asthe other, and as large or great. The varieties of the double garden Poppies are fet forth in my deeper fpot fomewhatlarge inthe bottome of every leafe Cuar.i4, The leaves ofthe wild Poppy, are long and narrow, very much cutin onthe edges into many divifions, ofa greene, yeeld a milke when theyare broken, of an unpleafant bitter 2.° The Fheater ofPlants. TR 1B 8.3 =e a 5: Papaverhinofum Americanum, Thorny Poppic of America, The Place; The Garden kindes doe not naturally grow wild in anyplace, Ithinke, although Diofcorides, Galen, ando- thers fay, that the blacke kinde that fheddeth his feede, groweth wilde,for Irather fuppofe that fome feed happeningthereby chance, fhed it felfe, and fo was thoughtto grownaturally wilde, and being fuffered to fhed,. will grow plentifilly, though fmaller, but in all Countries, at the leaft in all Chriftian Countries, they areall fowen, and not found wild, fo farré as Ican learne, onely the firft wilde kinde is plentifull enough, and man times too much, in the cornefields of all Countries, and alfo uponditch banckes, and hedgefides : the lefler alfo is found in cornefieldes, but more rarely, as alfoin fome other places, The thornye Poppy groweth in the PeSt= Indies, from whence the feede wasfirft brought to us. The Time. The Garden kindes are ufually foweninthe fpring, which then flower about the End of May, and fomewhae earlier, ifthey {pring of their owne fowing : the wilde kindes flower ufuall from May untill Tuly, and the feed of themalt is foone ripe after the howring. The Thorny kinde flowreth feldome before Midfomer, and the feede is ripe in Augaft, but istobe fowen in Autumne, or elfe it hardly fpringeth, The Names. Ye is called in Greeke vixoail xovelv non miniffrando, quod vefcentes (uis munizs fungi non poffunt ; or as fome thinkea ui: cal quod ejws ufus niminm infrigidet, & hominibus tandem motumauferat, the Garden whité kinde is T unceure(andofDiocorides Suaanizis thylacitis and the blacke feedeis called mSizis pithitis) hortenfe or farivum: the wild kinde iscalled fora, Rheas, that is fluidum, quiaflores protinus decidunt ; in Latine Papaver Rheas, evvaticum rubrum, ox filueftre 5 Diofcorides Galen,and others, make onely the firlt great white Kinde, tobe the Gardenkinde, and the blacke to be the wilde fort, the Gardenkinde is calledby the Arabians Caxcax, by the Italians Papavero domeftico, by the Spaniards Dormideras and Cafcall, by the French Pavot, by the Gere mans Maglamen and Olfamen, of the Dutchmen Huell and Mancup ; of usin Englifo Poppy, ot Garden Poppy for the moft part, yet in fome Countries withus, lone filver pinne, /wbanditur faire without and foule Within, andin many other places Cheefeboules : the wild Poppyis calledin Italian, Papaverofilvatico, in Spanifo Ama= pobas rofella,and Papoulas ; in French (oquelicoc,Pavot favvage and Coxfanons, inthe high Dutch tongue C.dapper rofen, and korn rofen, inthelow Dutch tongue Rooden hucl, wilden huel, and Colbloemen, in Englifh Wild Poppy, Corne Rofe, redweede, and Canckers, Tragus calleth it Argemone, The Thorny Poppyis called generally by all now adayes,Papaver (pinofum, but of GerardCarduys Ceryfanthemus Pernanus;by the Spaniardsin the Tudies, from whomthe Italians had it Figo del Fnferno, that is Ficus Infernalis, the Figge of hell, becanfe the prickely head islong and round, fomewhat like figge, and that whofoeverfhould have one of themfticke in his throate;, it would furely fend him to heaven orhell. The milkye juice gathered from the heades onely of the great white Poppye, growing in the Eaft Countryes of Aza major, towards India, and in divers other countries of thofe Indies, (for it is there a great merchandife of muchufe and expence,as alfoin Paphlagonia, Cappadocia, Gate latia,Cilicia, and Natolia, whichisthe leffer Afia, as V {aid before, ) is that true and bett Opium} that is or fhould be ufed in Narcoticke medicines, and is an ingredient ofmuch refpect, in thofe great compofitions of Theriaca and Mithridatium,emc.whereof a fmall quantityhath beene gathered in {ome Chriftian Countryes: and myfelfe and othersin our owne land, have gathered little from the greene heads, as they ftand, and are but halfe gtowné |