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Of Corne-Rose or Wilde Poppy

The Description.

I THe stalks of red Poppy be blacke, tender, and brittle, somewhat hairy: the leaves are cut round about with deepe gashes like those of Succorie or wild Rocket. The flours grow forth at the tops of the stalks, being of a beautifull and gallant red colour, with blackish threds compassing about the middle part of the head, which being fully growne, is lesser than that of the garden Poppy: the seed is small and blacke.

The Place.

They grow in earable lands, among wheat, spelt, rie, barley, oats, and other graine, and in the borders of fields.

The Time.

The fields are garnished and overspred with these wilde Poppies in June and August.

The Names. (dagger)Wilde Poppy is called in Latine, Papaver Rhoeas, because the floure thereof soon falls away: which name Rhoeas may for the same cause be common not only to these, but also to the others, if it be so called of the speedy falling of the floures.

The Vertues.

Most men being led rather by false experiments than reason, commend the floures against the Pleurisie, giving to drinke as soon as the pain comes, either the distilled water, or syrrup made by often infusing the leaves. And yet many times it happens, that the paine ceaseth by that meanes, though hardly sometimes.