Tas. 4749. 
PAPAVER piLosuM. 
Large Hairy Poppy. 
Nat, Ord. PAPAVERACE®.—POLYANDRIA MoNnoGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Sepala 2, convexa, decidua. Petala 4. Stamina numerosa. Stylus 
nullus. Stigmata 4-20, radiantia, sessilia super discum ovarium coronantem. 
Capsula obovata, 1-locularis, e carpellis 4-20. in thalami productione membrana- 
cea inclusis constans, sub stigmatum corona valvulis brevibus dehiscens. Pla- 
cente intervalvulares, intus in dissepimenta incompleta productse.—Herbe per- 
ennes, succo albo fete ; pedunculi ante florescentiam apice inflexi. De Cand. 
Papaver pilosum; elatum ramosum undique hispido-pilosum pilis patentibus, 
foliis radicalibus oblongis in petiolum longiusculum attenuatis pinnatifidis 
serratis, caulinis lato-oblongis inciso-serratis basi subcordatis amplexicauli- 
bus sessilibus, petalis amplis miniatis basi albo-maculatis, capsulis (imma- 
turis) oblongo-obovatis glabris. 
Papaver pilosum. Sm. Prodr. Fl. Gree. v. 1. p. 350. Fl. Grae, Sibth. ov. 5. p. 
75. ¢. 402. De Cand. Prodr. p. 119. 
Papaver Olympicum. Sith. MSS. 
A hardy herbaceous Poppy, we believe with perennial roots 
and large handsome brick-red flowers, having a pale spot at the 
base of each of the petals. When or by whom introduced into 
this country, or from what source our garden derived it, we have 
no record ; but it is assuredly the P. pilosum of Smith and Sib- 
thorpe, whose figure above quoted is very characteristic (Flora 
Greeca, tab. 192). The plate immediately before that, in the 
Flora Graeca, is P. somniferum, and we wonder that no notice 1s 
taken of the similarity of the two, for (in the absence of ripe cap- 
sules of our plant) they are very much alike : best distinguished 
by the absence of glaucous hue, greater breadth of foliage, copi- 
ous hairiness (by no means always glabrous in P. somniferum), 
and brick-red petals of P. pelosum. : 
Dezscr. Root perennial? Stem two to three feet high, branched, 
terete, clothed with copious patent hairs (as are the leaves). oo/- 
leaves elongated, oblong, tapering into a decided and rather long 
petiole, deeply sinuated and coarsely inciso-serrated ; s¢em-leaves 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1853. 
