Papaver (pah-pa'ver). 1

A genus made up of the poppies. 2. Poppy capsules. fructus papaveris (alb i, seu immaturi). Poppy capsules. P. album. P. of ficin ale, papaveris capita, seu capsulae. Poppy capsules. P. nigrum. Black opium poppy; a black-seeded variety of P. somniferum; cultivated especially for the oil-yielding seed. P. of ficin ale. White poppy; usually regarded as a variety of A somniferum. It is cultivated in Persia for its opium, and furnishes most of the poppy capsules. P. rheas, P. rubrum. (Red) corn poppy, abundant in western Asia, in northern Africa, and throughout Europe. The petals, which have a heavy odor, when fresh, and a somewhat bitter taste, are the red poppy petals of pharmacy, the rheados petal a of the Br. Ph. They contain rheadin and probably meconic acid, but no morphin. P. somniferum. 1. Opium poppy; indigenous probably to southern Europe and western Asia. It is now extensively cultivated for the opium obtained by scarifying the unripe but fully grown capsules, and in Europe for the seed, which yields oil of poppy. The dried, nearly ripe capsules constitute the poppy capsules, the papaveris capsulae of the Br. Ph., 1898, which po e in a mild form the properties of opium. [Lat.]