CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

LONG ROUGH-HEADED POPPY

Description. The first leaves of this poppy grow in a cluster; they are of a pale green, and hairy, and have short foot-stalks; they are deeply divided on the pinnated manner, so that they seem composed of many pairs placed on a rib, with an odd one at teh end; but they are in reality only so many segments. The stalks are numerous, round, firm, very much branched, and a foot high. The flowers stnad at the tops of the branches, and are of a beautiful scarlet colour, with little black buttons. The heads are long, and covered with a kind of soft prickles.

Place. It is most common in in many parts of England in corn-fields, and on ditch-banks:

Time. It flowers in June: but they quickly fade and fll off in this and the next species.