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Show The, BRR TI Sik HBR B ACL, round, firm, upright, branched, and.a foot and a halfhigh. The Jeaves ftand irregularly onit, andare like thofe from the root, long, narrow, and deeply jagged: fometimes theyftand fingly, fometimes two, and fometimes three, rife from the fame Thefeed-veffel is long This is tin the corn-fields of Efe flowers in Th BRITISH HERBAL. The flowers of thefe feveral fpecies poflefs the famevirtues with thofe of the-common red but in aninferior degree. ftalks. The flowers are fmall, and of a pale red, fometimes white. OORGe TG Ni 1. Naked-ftalked Poppy. Papaver caulibus uudis, men) 87D") £ ia FEL ran f: f The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with manyfibres. Thefirft leaves are numerous, fmall, and of a dufky green: they have long, flender footftalks, and aré deeply divided at the edges, often quite down to the rib; fo that they appear pinnated. he ftalks rife among thefe; and they are naked, weak, and round; but though they have no leaves, they have a fhort ftiff hair covering them, very thick. The flowers ftand fingly, one’ on the top of every ftalk; and they are large and yellow. The feed-veffél is oblong and rough, and the feeds are numerous and {mall. It is a native of Switzerland, and other nor- thern parts of Europe, and flowers in June. C. Bauhine calls it A-gemone Alpina coriandri folio. 2. Prickly-Poppy. Papaver: {pinofum. LOO. The root, is long and fpréading,| of a’ white colour, andfull of fibres, epncany Eo ye HORNED as Po Bio BS, ves are very large, and of ad, ead green,, marked with white veins, and prickly at the edges: theyrife in a large clufter, and have no footftalks : the y are oblong, broad, and deeply divided at the fides, and terminatein a point. The ftalk is thick, firm, irregularly upri ale te off a pale 1 green, andalfo s 4 ; prickly: toward the top it divides into two or three large branches, e leave 7 in: arl. The leaves j ftand irregularly on it, and have no footftalks : the they are long, 2 and Jagged jagged at at the the edges, and prickly. The flowers are large and yellow. The feed-veffels are oblong andprickly, and 5 hee the feeds numerous and {mall. It is a native of South America, and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it P, fon, Papaver fpinofum | tatis. Mari115 venis albis no- Boththefe are of the nature of the other poppies’ but their virtues have not.been particu larly regarded. U.S If. PO PeBry, GERAUICTIUM. The root is long, thick, fcarce at all divided, and furnifhed with numerous fibres. The leaves that rife from it are large, and of a bluifh green: they have no footftalks: they are long, and confiderably broad; and are very deeply and irregularly indented at the edges. The ftalk is round, thick, fmooth, of a whitifh or preyifh green, ahd two feet high: it divides into many branches, and fupports itfelf very erect. The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are large, and like thofe from the root: they have no footftalk, but furround the ftalk at the bafe ; and they are of a pale bluifh green colour. Theflowersftand at the tops of the ftalks, and are large and yellow. The f{eed-veffel is very long and flender, and is crowned at the top :. the feeds are numerous and {mall. It is not uncommon on our fea coafts; and flowets in June. C. Bauhinecalls it Papaver corniculatumluteum. Linnzus, Chelidonium pedunculis unifloris. Yellow horned poppy. GaLE pale green. The ftalk is round, flender, upright, and a foot or more in height, and alfo of a pale green. The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and are, like thofe from the root, divided into numerous fine fegments, in a double pinnated manner. The flowers ftand at the tops ofthe ftalks, and are large, and of a deep blue purple, not unlike that of the commonviolet. The feed-vefiels are long and flender, and the feeds numerous andfimall. Ic is found in cornfields in fome parts of England, but isnot common. It flowers in Augults C, Bauhine calls it Papaver corniculatum viola- ceum, Weknownothing of certainty concerning the virtues of thefe plants; but they feem to approach to the poppy in-that refpect, as well as form; their juice being of the fame acrid and peculiarbitter tafte with theirs. F O-R E’PoQNn § PECL E's: The leaves ftand irregularly on it, and ate di- oN oe Ill. CELANDINE. this'to the Poppy, not allowing it t 0 bea So. difficult is it in thee with a few fibres. The firft leaves rife in a little tuft, and are beautifully divided, without foorftalks, and of a 200 | vided more deeply than thofe from the root. The flowers are fmall, but of a beautiful fcarlet The root is long, thick, and undivided, and colour: they open wide, and have fome black has very few fibres. buttons, fupported by fhort threads in the centre. The firft leaves rife in a ‘great, upright tuft ; The feed-velfel is long, flender, hairy, and and are long, narrow, hairy, and deeply divided crowned with a top: the feeds are numerous and at the edges into flat, broad, obtufe fegments: fmall. they have no footftalks, ‘and their colours a dead It is common in the fouth of France, and flowers in July. green. The ftalk is round, naked, very much branched, Clufius calls ic Papaver corniculatum pheniceo and of a pale green: this is alfo very hairy. flore ; and moft others have copied the fame name. Linnzeus places this among * oH, Zao: Theroot is long, flender, white, and furnifhed Glaucium hirfutum rubrum, 7 the polyandria monogynia 3 the threads in each flower being numerous, andfixed to the receptacle, and the ftyle from the r udiment of the fruit fingle, Mr, Ray:joins diftin@, as w € fhall ; fee in the fucce e ding genus. cafes'to preferve the right medium, We, Hairy, red flowered Horned Poppy: HEflower is large ;' it'ftands fingly, and confifts a BY ofTfour petals, which are fpread Ire the cup confifls of two oval leaves; and rf a] j the feed-veffel is long, flender, fquarre, and contains only a-finglé cell. diftin& genus; but in th his he errs. The formof the capfiule is fo extremely ; different from th at of the common Poppy, 0 that at it it jutti juftifies ak i it a diftin&kind ; and this, like ‘all’ other’ well ait ee eftabliifhed diftinGtions, oo tends to; render the ie more familiar. fcience ide e Some have diftinguithed the fevera l {mall-flowered Poppies ies Fifrom the others, under the name of ar: gemone; butvas there is notin nature a fufficient found ation for this diftinGtion, it perplexes inftead of clearing. Linnzus, who deferves praife for dividing the glaucium from the Papaver, which Mr. Ray omitted to do, Jays himfelf opento cenfure. by Joining the glaucium with the chelidonium ma which it is abfolutely Glaucium flore violaceo. Glaucium luteo flore. DIV ISTO N SPECTES, 2. Purple Horned Poppy. 1. Yellow Horned Poppy. joint, and ‘this principally at the branching ofthe Dee Ys O Nir. BRAUTISH DIVISION Eg, CHELIDONIUM MAFUS. HiE flowers are‘fovall, andvftand'in ‘clufters : each is compofed of four petals, and ‘has a tuft of threads‘in ‘the ‘centre : the cup is formed’of two oval leaves, and f{plits open: the feed-vefiel is Jong, flender, and fquare, and is crownedat the top. Linneus places this among'his polyandria monogynia ; the threads in the flower being numerous, and growing to the receptacle; and the ftyle from the rudiment ofthe fruit being fingle. Thisauthor does -not allow «it a diftinétigenus or name; bur joins it, as I have obferved before, with the horned poppy, ‘under the name of glaucium: from thisit differs evidently inthe ‘fize and difpofition of the flowers and thefe-are ‘firfficient charaéters, inthe eye of reafon, for a generical diftinction, > »where'there’are not-greater. Mr. Ray errscmore:in this cafe than Linnzus ; he joins this, as well as the laft, in one genus with the poppy. Of this genus there are but two known fpecies, and both are natives of Britain. No XV. Pp 1. Common |
