1. The common Corn Poppy (Papaver Rhœas).
1527. Andrew, Brunswykes Distyll. Waters, clviii. K iij a. Water of red corne roses.
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.
1657. W. Coles, Adam in Eden, iii. 7. The white Corn-Rose groweth amongst the Wheat, between Pontfract and Ferry-Bridge.
1861. Miss Pratt, Flower. Pl., I. 67. Papaver Rhœas Country people call the plant Corn-rose.
2. Applied to the Cockle (COCKLE1 1, 2).
1611. Cotgr., Alesnes, Cockle, Corne-rose, field Nigella, wild Nigella.
1678. Phillips, Cockle, a Weed calld Corn-rose, Darnel, or field-Nigella.
172142. Bailey, Cockle, a Weed, otherwise called Corn-rose.
c. 1878. Oxford Bible Helps, s.v. Cockle, Cockle in Job xxxi. 40. means the corn-rose, a weed found among corn.
3. Applied to the Field-rose.
1776. Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), II. 465. White-flowered Dogs Rose. Corn Rose.