Of bastarde wilde Poppie.

| 1 Argemone capitulo torulo. | 2 Argemone capitulo longiore. | | :--- | :--- | | Bastard wilde Poppie. | Long codded wilde Poppie. |

The description.

The first of these bastard wilde Poppies, hath slender weake stems a foote high, rough and hairie, set with leaues not vnlike to those of rocket, made of many smal leaues, deeply cut or iagged about the edges. The flowers grow at the top of the stalks of a red colour with some small blacknesse toward the bottome. The seede is small conteined in little round knobs. The roote is small and threddie. 2 The second is like the first, sauing that the cods hereof be long, and the other more rounde, wherein the difference doth consist. ☙ The place. These plants do growe in the corne fieldes in Somersetshire, and by the hedges and high waies, as yee trauell from London to Bathe. L'Obelius founde it growing in the next fielde vnto a village in Kent called Southfleete, my selfe being in his companie, of purpose to discouer some strange plants, not hitherto written of. ☙ The time. They flower in the beginning of August, and their seede is ripe at the ende thereof. ☙ The names. The bastard wilde Poppie is called in Greeke Ἀργεμώνη: in Latine Argemone, Argemonia, Concordia, Concordalis, and Herba liburnica: of some Pergalium, Arsela, and Sarcocolla Herba: in English winde Rose, and bastarde wilde Poppie. ☙ The temperature. They are hot and drie in the third degree. ☙ The vertues. The leaues stamped, and the iuice dropped into the eies easeth the inflammation thereof, and cureth the disease in the eie called Argema, whereof it tooke his name: which disease when it happeneth on the blacke of the eie it appeereth white; and contrariwise when it is in the white, then it appeereth blacke of colour. The leaues stamped and bound vnto the eies or face that are blacke or blewe by meanes of some blowe or stripe, doth perfectly take it away. The drie herbe steeped in warme water, worketh the like effect. The leaues and rootes stamped, and the iuice giuen in drinke, helpeth the wringings or gripings of the belly. The drie herbe infused in warme water doth the same effectually. The herbe stamped, cureth any wounde, vlcer, canker, or fistula, being made vp into an vnguent or salue, with oile, waxe, and a little turpentine. The iuice taken in the waight of two drammes with wine, mightely expelleth poison or any venome. The iuice taketh awaie warts if they bee rubbed therewith; and being taken in meate it helpeth the milt or spleene if it be wasted.