Adonis Flower (The)

according to Bion, is the rose; Pliny (i. 23) says it is the anemone; others say it is the field poppy, certainly the prince of weeds; but what we now generally mean by the Adõnis flower is pheasant’s eye, called in French goute-de-sang, because in fable it sprang from the blood of the gored hunter.

“Aιμα ρoδoν τικτει, τα δε δακρνα ταν ανεμωναν.”

(Blood brings forth roses, tears anemone.)—Bion: Elegy on Adonis. See also Ovid; Metamorphoses, Bk. x., Fable 15.)