512 
PAP AVER RHCEAS 
RED or CORN POPPY 
S TNO NTM. 
maj 
Pap aver err a 
Bauh. Pin. p 
um, Pharm 
JLond, 
Pap 
Papaver erraticum Rhoeas, 
five fylveftre. Park. Tbeat.p. 36J. Papaver laciniato folio, capitulo 
RaiL Synop. p. 308. 
nnatis hifpidis frudu 
brevio 
bro, annuum, Rhoeas dictum 
Voixs 
Theoph 
Diofc 
Pap 
fol 
femip 
ovato glabro. Hall. Rift. Stir p. Helv. 11. 1064 
Emac .p. 371. Hud/on. Flor. Ang. p. 230. 
P. Rhoe 
J 
5 
s. Gerard. 
, Bot. Am 
Relban. Flor. Cantab. p. 203. Curtis, Flor. Lond. Hi. n. 36. 
Clafs Polyandria. 

; 
Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 648. 
FJf.Gen. Ch. Cor. 4-petala. Cat, 2-phyllus 
ftigmate perfiftente poris dehifcens. 
Caps. 
1 
locularis, fub 
Sp. Ch. 
P. caps, glabris globofis, caule pilofo multifloro, fol. pinna 
tifidis incifis. 
TH E root is annual, fimple, fibrous : the ftalk is upright, branched, 
having hairs (landing at right angles with the item, which rifes from 
one to two feet in height : the leaves are pinnated, toothed, hairy on 
both fides, at the bafe meath-like : the peduncles are flender^ furnifhed 
with hairs like the ftem, and each fupports a fmgle flower : the calyx 
nfifts of two leaves, which are ovate, rough, concave, and deciduous: 
tl 
is compofed of four petals, which are 
g 
difh, unequal, of a bright fcarl 
fpreading 
and marked at the bafe 
with a mining black 
the filaments are numerous, fiend 
purplifh, and furnifhed with 
dim 
preffed antherae 
fly 
there 
is no 
e 
the 
the 
d perma 
it is 
germen is eggfhaped, truncated at the top : 
ftigma is convex, radiated : the radii of a purpl 
nent : the capfule anfwers the defcription given of the germen 
fmooth, marked with feveral longitudinal projecting lines, which are 
in number equal to the radii of the fligma; at the top it is fcolloped: 
the radii are numerous, minute, and of a purple colour. 
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