C 1633 ] 



Papaver nudicaule (|3.) Yellow- 

 flowered, naked-stalked Poppy. 



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PoLYANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. 4-petala. Cal. 2-phyllus. Cap/, l-locularis, fub ftigmate 

 perfiftente poris dehifcens. 



Specific GoaraZler and Synonyms. 



PAPAVER nudicaule s capfulis (ereBis) hifpidis, fcapo unifloro 



nudo hifpido, foliis fimplicibus pinnato hnuatis. Willd. Sp. 



PL 2. p. 1145. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 289. Gmel. Sib. 4. 



p. 180. Flor. Dan. t. 41. Kniph. Cent. 10. n. 68. 

 PAPAVER erraticum nudicaule, flore flavo odorato. £>/'//. 



Eltb. 302. /. 224. / 291. 

 PAPAVER erraticum luteo flore, capite oblongo hilpido. 



Amman. Ruth 61. n. 81. 

 (a.) floribus albis. 

 (j3.) floribus flavis. 



Papaver nudicaule and <*//>/««« approach fo near to each 

 other, that Haller and other Botanifts have fuppofed them 

 to be the fame; and Linn^us himfelf doubted whether the 

 former might not be a mere offspring of cultivation. To us, 

 however, it appears that our plant, a native of Siberia, is ium- 

 ciently diftina from the one which Haller and Jacquin 

 have defcribed. It is much larger, leaves more hairy and pin- 

 natifid, not bipinnate. There feems indeed to be two varieties 

 of the yellow-flowered nudicaulis, as we have received from 

 Mr. Loddiges a fpecimen exaBly correlponding with the 

 figure in Flora Danica, with a fcape about fix inches high, and 

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