¶ The Names.
† Wilde Poppy is called in Greeke of Dioscorides, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine, Papauer erraticum: 〈◊〉〈◊〉 according to the Greeke nameth it Papauer sluidum: as also Lobel, who cals it Pap. Rhoe as, because the floure thereof soone falleth away. Which name 〈◊〉〈◊〉 as may for the same cause be common, not onely to these, but also to the others, if it be so called of the speedy falling of the floures: but if it be syrnamed Rhoe as of the falling away of the seed (as it appeareth) then shall it be proper to that which is described in the fifth place in the foregoing chapter, out of whose heads the seed easily and quickly falls; as it doth also out of this, yet lesse manifestly. They name it in French Cocque∣licot, Confanons, Pauot sauvage: in Dutch, Collen bloemen; Coren rosen: in high Dutch, Klapper Rossen: in English, Red Poppy, and Corne-rose.
‡ 4 Some haue called this Ficus infernalis, from the Italian name Figo del inferno. But Clu∣sius and Bauhine haue termed it Papauer spinosum: and the later of them would haue it (and that not without good reason) to be Glaucium of Dioscorides, 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 3. cap. 100. And I also probably coniecture it to be the Hippomanes of Crateuas, mentioned by the Greeke Scholiast of Theocritus, as I haue for∣merly briefely declared Chap. 62. ‡