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Yellow Horned-Poppy.
P O L T A N D R I A JMonogynia•
Gen . Char. Cal. two-leaved. Cor. of four petals.
Pod linear, one-celled.
Spec. Char. Flower-ftalks fingle-flowered. Leaves
embracing the ftem, finuated. Stem fmooth.
S yn. Chelidonium Glaueium. Linn. Sp. PI. 724.
HudJ. FI. An. 229. With. Pot. Arr. 548.
Papaver corniculatum luteum. Rail Syn. 309.
F r o m one annual root arife feveral branched and wide-
fpreading Items, each about two or three feet long, fo that a
Angle plant occupies a confiderable fpace. The feed veflels are
alfo much longer than could be exprefled in our figure, meafur-
ing frequently ten or twelve inches. The large and numerous
flowers, which, although of fhort duration, fucceed one another
in great abundance during molt part of the fummer, make a fine
contrail with the fea-green “ dew-befpangled” leaves, and are
a great ornament to the fandy Ihores where this plant grows.
It is not uncommon on the Englifh coaft, and grows frequently
even within reach of the fpray of the fea. The Ihores of Norfolk
and Suffolk produce it in abundance.
The whole plant is foetid, and of ga poifonous quality. It is
faid to occafion madnefs.
Whether this be the true Glaueium of Diofcorides is much to
be doubted. Among the unpublifhed plates, engraved from the
celebrated manufeript of that author, in the Imperial library,
an impreflion of which is in the Linnaean collection, is a figure
of his plant; but not fufficiently perfeCt to afeertain what it is ;
although certainly more like our Chelidonium Glaueium than
Argemone mexicana, which Cafpar Bauhin took for the Glau-
cium of Diofcorides.