< Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)

SPATLING-POPPY, White Bottle, or Bladder Campion, Cucubalus Behen, L. a native perennial, which grows in corn-fields, dry meadows, and pastures: it flowers in July and August.—The leaves of this vegetable, when boiled, possess the flavour of pease; and are by the Gothlanders advantageously applied to erysipelatous eruptions. The flowers are eagerly visited by bees, as well as by the most beautiful butterflies, in twilight.

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