subrotundate, wavy, of a beautiful orange-yellow colour. 
Stamens numerous, yellow. Filaments slender. Anthers 
linear, two-celled. _Germen oval, green, clothed with nu- 
merous, erect, and appressed purplish - brown bristles. 
Stigma sessile, seven-rayed, yellow. Capsule oblong, seven- 
ribbed, hispid. 
Our Botanic Garden of Glasgow is indebted to Professor 
Leprzour of Dorpat for the possession of this beautiful 
species of Papaver; which, nearly allied as it assuredly is to 
Papaver nudicaule, is, nevertheless, truly distinct from it. 
The learned Botanist just mentioned, speaks of its disco- 
very in his interesting Travels to the Altai Mountains 
(Berlin, 1829): where, describing his excursion from Rid- 
dersk, along the river Grammatucha, ‘‘ The old bed of 
this river,” he says, “ is remarkable for the quantity of 
débris from the surrounding country, and here it was I 
found a Poppy with an orange flower (Paraver croceum, 
mihi), but by no means plentiful, and allied to Paraver 
nudicaule.” ‘This was on the 18th of May, when vegeta- 
tion in general was almost destroyed by a severe hail-storm. 
In the open border of our garden, it flowered in the 
month of June, along with the large variety of the P. nudi- 
caule; surpassing it in beauty, and not exceeded even by 
the Escuscnoxzia californica and HuNNEMANNIA papaveracea. 
Dr. Fiscuer’s P. nudicaule, var. rubro-aurantiacum, from 
the Altai, may be the same as this; but the var. of nudi- 
caule in the Bot. Mag. referred to it by De Canpoxze, is 
surely very different : and has the hairs of the scape patent. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2, Pistil. 3. Capsule.—Magnified, 
