g the Latin names for the
Oxford schools; the English ones I shall give as they chance to occur to
me, in Gerarde and the classical poets who wrote before the English
revolution. When no satisfactory name is to be found, I must try to invent
one; as, for instance, just now, I don't like Gerarde's 'Corn-rose' for
Papaver Rhoeas, and must coin another; but this can't be done by thinking;
it will come into my head some day, by chance. I might try at it
straightforwardly for a week together, and not do it.

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NAME IN OXFORD CATALOGUE. DIOSCORIDES. In present Botany.
1. Papaver Rhoeas [Greek: mekon rhoias] Papaver Rhoeas
2. P. Hortense [Greek: m. kepeute][27] P. Hortense
3. P. Elatum [Greek: m. thulakitis][28] P. Lamottei
4. P. Argemone P. Argemone
5. P. Echinosum P. Hybridum
6. P. Violaceum Roemeria Hybrida
7. P. Cruciforme Meconopsis Cambrica
8. P. Corniculatum [Greek: m. keratitis] Glaucium Corniculatum
9. P. Littorale [Greek: m. paralios] Glaucium Luteum
10. P. Chelidonium Chelidonium Majus

{98} The Latin names must be fixed at once, somehow; and therefore I do the
best I can, keeping as much respect for the old nomenclature as possible,
though this involves the illogical practice of giving the epithet sometimes
from the flower, (violaceum, cruciforme), and sometimes from the seed
vessel, (elatum, echinosum, corniculatum). Guarding this distinction,
however, we may perhaps be content to call the six last of the group, in
English, Urchin Poppy, Violet Poppy, Crosslet Poppy, Horned Poppy, Beach
Poppy, and Welcome Poppy. I don't think the last flower pretty enough to be
connected more directly with the swallow, in its English name.

11. I shall be well content if my pupils know these ten poppies rightly;
all of them at present wild in our own country, and, I believe, also
European in range: the head and type of all being the common wild poppy of
our cornfields for which the name 'Papaver Rhoeas,' given it by
Dioscorides, Gerarde, and Linnaeus, is entirely authoritative, and we will
therefore at once examine the meaning, and reason, of that name.

12. Dioscorides says the name belongs to it "[Greek: dia to tacheos to
anthos apoballein]," "because it casts off