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papaver nudicatjle, &. rubro-aurantiacum. 

 Orange-coloured, Naked-stalked Poppy. 



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Class and Order. 



PoLYANDRIA MoNOOYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. 4-petala. Cal. diphyllus. Caps. 1-locularis, sub 

 stigmate persistente poris dehiscens. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Papaver nudicaule; capsulis erectis hispidis, scapo unifloro 

 hispido, foliis simplicihus pinnato-sinuatis, calycibus 

 hirsutis. Vide supra No. 1633. 



(<J\) rubro-aurantiacum. Fisch. De Cand. Syst. Veg. nat. 

 2. p. 70. 



De Candolle enumerates four varieties of Papaver nudi- 

 caule, of which this is the last, and he observes that it may 

 probably be a distinct species. Perhaps farther observation 

 may prove some of the others to be specifically different. 

 Our Plant, while it differs very materially from the figure 

 in Flora Danica referred to by this author as a good repre- 

 sentation of his variety y. radicatum, which has very hairy 

 Leaves, and if the drawing is correct a quite different stigma, 

 has not however the characters mentioned from Dr. FlSCUB 

 ofadpressed hairs on the scape, and the lobules of the leaves 

 terminated with a bristle From the yellow-flowered \ariety 

 figured at No. 1633, it differs in size, ami in the colour both 

 of the flowers ami hairs of the scape, and in the form of the 

 leaves, which are also destitute of all hairiness. Perhaps 

 the number of the rays of the stigma, may afford a good 

 specific distinction; which in our plant are eight, in the 

 one figured in the Flora Danica, if the artist be correct, 

 only four; but we are not certain of the constancy of this 

 character. 



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