The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London

¶ The Description.

1 THe leaues of white Poppie are long, broad, smooth, longer than the leaues of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, whiter, and cut in the edges: the stem or stalke is straight and brittle, oftentimes a yard and a halfe high: on the top whereof grow white floures, in which at the very beginning appeareth a small head, accompanied with a number of threds or chiues, which being full growne is round, and yet something long withall, and hath a couer or crownet vpon the top; it is with many filmes or thin skins diuided into coffers or seuerall partitions, in which is contained abundance of small round and whitish seed. The root groweth deepe, and is of no estimation nor continuance.

2 Like vnto this is the blacke garden Poppie, sauing that the floures are not so white and shi∣ning, but vsually red, or at least spotted or straked with some lines of purple. The leaues are greater, more iagged, and sharper pointed. The seed is likewise blacker, which maketh the difference.

‡ 3 There is also another garden Poppie whose leaues are much more sinuated, or crested, and the floure also is all iagged or finely cut about the edges, and of this sort there is also both blacke and white. The floures of the blacke are red, and the seed blacke; and the other hath both the floures and seed white.

4 There are diuers varieties of double Poppies of both these kindes, and their colours are commonly either white, red, darke purple, scarlet, or mixt of some of these. They differ from the former onely in the doublenesse of their floures.

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1 Papauer sativum album. White garden Poppie.

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2 Papauer sativum nigrum. Blacke Garden Poppie.

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‡ 3 Papauer simbriatum album. White iagged Poppie.

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4 Papauer flo. multipl. albo & nigro. The double white and blacke Poppie.

5 There is also another kinde of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 which ost times is sound wilde; the slalles, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 floures, and heads are like, but lesse than those of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉: the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 are of an 〈◊〉〈◊〉 blew∣ish purple color; after which sollow heads short and round, which vnder their couer or crownet haue little holes by which the seed may fall out; contrarie to the heads of the sormer, which are close and open not of themselues. There is also a double one of this kinde. ‡