1.  The common Corn Poppy (Papaver Rhœas).

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1527.  Andrew, Brunswyke’s Distyll. Waters, clviii. K iij a. Water of red corne roses.

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1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, III. lxxxii. 433. There be two sortes of red Poppie or Cornerose, the great and the small, differing onely in leaues, but the flowers are lyke one another.

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1657.  W. Coles, Adam in Eden, iii. 7. The white Corn-Rose groweth amongst the Wheat, between Pontfract and Ferry-Bridge.

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1861.  Miss Pratt, Flower. Pl., I. 67. Papaver Rhœas … Country people call the plant Corn-rose.

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  2.  Applied to the Cockle (COCKLE1 1, 2).

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1611.  Cotgr., Alesnes, Cockle, Corne-rose, field Nigella, wild Nigella.

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1678.  Phillips, Cockle, a Weed call’d Corn-rose, Darnel, or field-Nigella.

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1721–42.  Bailey, Cockle, a Weed, otherwise called Corn-rose.

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c. 1878.  Oxford Bible Helps, s.v. Cockle, ‘Cockle’ in Job xxxi. 40. means the corn-rose, a weed found among corn.

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  3.  Applied to the Field-rose.

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1776.  Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), II. 465. White-flowered Dogs Rose. Corn Rose.

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