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Argemone grandiflora. Large-flowered 

 Mexican Poppy. 



Class and Order. 



POLYANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Papaverace*:. ) 



Generic Character. 



Pet. 4 — 6. Stamina plurima. Stylus vix ullus : Stig- 

 mata 4 — 7, radiantia, concava, libera. Capsula obovata, 

 1-locularis, valvulis apice dehiscens, placentis linearibus. 

 Semina sphaerica, scrobiculata. — Flores flavi aut albi. Pe- 

 dunculi ante anthesin erecti. D C. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Argemone * grandiflora ; foliis pinnatifidis sinuatis parce 

 spinoso-dentatis, caule calyceque laevibus, capsula ob- 

 longa tetragona nudiuscula. 



Argemone grandiflora. Sweet, Br. Fl. Gard. t. 226. Bot. 

 Reg. t. 1264. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 242. 



Descr. A hardy perennial, throwing up a much branch- 

 ed, rounded stem, three to four feet high, which, upwards 

 especially, is of a pale yellowish-green colour, with a red- 

 dish tinge arising from numerous fine streaks of that colour, 

 unarmed as well as the peduncles. Leaves numerous, 

 mostly large, plane, or slightly waved, green, whitish in 

 the centre, pinnatifid, sinuated and beset with soft and 

 remote spinous teeth, the base amplexicaul, the upper 



ones 



* Derived from argema, the cataract of the eye, and which again is thus 

 named from ap7 o f , silver. The Greeks so called a plant, perhaps this, which 

 they considered beneficial in the cure of that complaint. 



