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PAPAVER floribundum. 
Armenian Poppy. 
POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA 
Nat. ord. ParaVERACEE. Jussieu gen. 935. 
Div. T. Stamina (hypogyna) indefinita; &nthere filamentis adnate. 
PAPAVER. Cal. diphyllus, caducus, Pet. 4. Germ. 1; sty» 
das O; stigma radiatum persistens. Caps. 1- (s. incompleté multi-) loc., 
polysperma, ovata aut oblonga, pluribus instructa receptaculis [totidem 
quot radii stigmatis] seminiferis, ad partetes intìs prominulis, dehiscens ed 
picem sub singulo radio totidem foraminulis infra univalvibus. Sem 
numerosissima. Herbe. Folia alterna. Flores solitarii terminales; 
succus lactens. Jussieu gen. 236. 
ee ange CRO lui i LAN 
Dio. Capsulis glabris. 
P. floribundum, foliis imis pinnatis superis pinnatifidis, villosis, incisis$ 
rdmìs floriferis axillaribus et termmalibus ; pedunculis unifloris; cap- 
y aulis glabris, oblongis. — Desfout. in ann. du mus. 1). 376. t. 33. 
Papaver orientale, tenuitér incisum, ad caulem floridum. Tournef. cor. 
17. 
,. Hierba perendis? 1-2- , glauca. Folin setis erectis sparsis ossictte 
Bione fldvescentibus hi ¿ tadioelia plurima, basi imbricata, multifario, 
vultriuncinlia, oblongata, de medio petioli impari-pinnata, pinnis oppositis 
detrescentibus subtritobo-pinnatifidis proximis obliguatis subundulatis, lobis 
ineegualitór incisis, lobulis prafixis setä longiore; petiolus subtis et margine 
ilosus, pr planiusculas: caulina distantia, tandèm sessilia, dein serie 
cei. Caulis patenti-pamculatus, robustus, Jezuoso-erectus, teres, heit, 
etis vagis rarissimis conspersus, rami axillares et terminales, divisi in pedum- 
culos 3-5 filiformes unifloros suffultos bracteâ foliaced, summi corymbord- 
Jastigiantes simpliciores'nudiores. Flores ante anthesin pendulo-nutantes, dein 
erecta. Cal. 'o-ellipticus, 'dvo passerine minor, setis confertim eckinahe,, 
odò parcids, vel ontinó depilis. Cor. uncias tres transversa, miniato-splendens, 
petalis. subquaternis, obovato-rotundatis, plicato-corrugatis, margine su 
eroso-repandis. Stam. ochroleuco-pallida. Germ. virens, j-oblongum, 
"eorsüm contractum ; stigma violactum, 4-6-radiatum, velutinum. 
Found by Tournefort in Armenia, and registered by 
him in the Corollary of his Institutes under a short specific, 
Phrase, meant, like the others in that work, for mere titles 
to correspond with his Herbarium and the drawings by 
Aubriet, the artist who accompanied him during his travels 
in the Levant. But it was the intention of this accom- 
plished naturalist to have given the world a work, consist- 
ing of descriptions and further history of the plants con- 
tained in this Prodromus or Index; when his purpose was 
defeated by a premature death, Thus the principal part of 
