 | Science - 1833 - 514 pages
...fade. The white poppy (Papaver somniferum) lives very well. The roots produce a yellow colour, a vinous odour, a bitter taste, and the brownish residuum might be taken for opium. This plant is one of those which neither the roots nor the stems cut into pieces, and, steeped in water, produce in it any of... | |
 | Agriculture - 1839 - 520 pages
...colour ; it acquires a virous odour, a hitter taste, and the hrownish residuum might he taken for opinm. This plant is one of those of which I cut the roots...imparted to the water none of the properties which it had acquired from the entire living plant. " Enphorhtacea.— The plants tried were the Euphorhia Cyparisias... | |
 | John Baxter - Agriculture - 1836 - 324 pages
...somniferum) will exist in it; the roots impart to the water a yellow colour ; it acquires a virons odour, a bitter taste, and the brownish residuum might...properties which it acquired from the entire living plant. Euphorbiaceai. — The plants tried were the Euphorbia Cyparisias and E. Replus, These are the euphorbias... | |
 | Science - 1833 - 442 pages
...fade. The white poppy (Papaver somniferum) lives very well. The roots produce a yellow colour, a vinous odour, a bitter taste, and the brownish residuum might be taken for opium. This plant is one of those which neither the roots nor the stems cut into pieces, and, steeped in water, produce in it any of... | |
 | 1832 - 954 pages
...white poppy (papaver somniferuni) lives very well. The roots produce a yellow color, a vinous odor, a bitter taste, and the brownish residuum might be taken for opium. This plant is one of those which neither the roots nor the stems cut into pieces and steeped in water, produce in it, any of the... | |
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The white poppy (Papaver somniferum) will exist in it; the roots impart to the water a yellow colour; it acquires a virous odour, a bitter taste, and the brownish residuum might be taken for opium. This plant is one of those of which I cut the roots from... 