The Poppy had of old a few other names, such as Corn-rose and Cheese-bowls (a very old name for the
flower), and being "of great beautie, although of evil smell, our gentlewomen doe call it Jone
Silverpin." This name is difficult of explanation, even with Parkinson's help, who says it meanes
"faire without and foule within," but it probably alludes to its gaudy colour and worthlessness. But
these names are scarcely the common names of the plant, but rather nicknames; the usual name is, and
always has been, Poppy, which is an easily traced corruption from the Latin papaver, the Saxon and
Early English names being variously spelt, popig and papig, popi and papy; so that the Poppy is another
instance of a very common and conspicuous English plant known only or chiefly by its Latin name
Anglicised. ~ readbookonline.net


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