12 POLYANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Papaver. 



P. n. 106'5. Hall. Hist. v. 2. IC. 



P. sylvesfre. Rail Syji. 308. Ger. Em. 370,/, 



P. sativum. Matth. Valgr. v. 2, 405./. Camer. Epit. 803./. Da- 

 lech. Hist. 1708./, Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 390./ 



On sandy ground in the fens. 



On the banks of all the fen ditches, where the soil is sandy, in the 

 parish of Hockwold cum Wilton, Norfolk, certainly wild. Rev. 

 Mr. White. By the Roman road from Cambridge to Ely. Rev. 

 Archdeacon Pierson. In newly trenched ground, by road sides, 

 &c, about Delvine house, near Coupar, Angusshire. Miss Wat- 

 son. The latter, however, can scarcely be supposed a wild station 

 for a plant so universal in gardens, nor is it published as such 

 on this authority, but on the former. 



Annual. July. 



The whole herb is glaucous, and generally smooth, though the 

 Jlower-stalks now and then bear several rigid, spreading, bri.stly 

 hairs. Stem 3 or 4 feet high, erect, branched, leafy. Leaves 

 broad, wavy, lobed and bluntly notched, clasping the stem with 

 their heart-shaped base. Fl. 3 inches broad, blueish white, with 

 a broad violet spot at the base of each petal. Such are all the 

 wild specimens I have seen. In gardens double varieties, of 

 every shade of purple, scarlet, crimson, and even green, mixed 

 with white, are common, though nothing can be more liable to 

 change, Germen, as well as capsule, nearly globular, often fur- 

 rowed. Stigma of 8, 10, or more rays, with a broad, thin, de- 

 flexed margin. Seeds oily, sweet, and eatable. 



The milky juice, when dried, becomes Opium, which, as Haller 

 well observes, is far more potent and dangerous in hot countries 

 than in our cooler climates. The capsules boiled afford a gently 

 narcotic infusion, and used to be kept in the shops ; but the 

 foreign Opium is more certain, and more manageable, in proper 

 hands, such as alone ought to direct its use. 



6. P. camhr'icum. Yellow Poppy. 



Capsule smootl), oblong, beaked. Stem many-flowered, 



nearly smooth. Leaves stalked, pinnate, cut. 

 P. cambricum. Unn. Sp. PI. 727. Willd. v. 2. 1147. Fl. Br. 



568. Engl. Bot. v. I. t. 66. Hook. Scot. 168. 

 P. luteum perenne, laciniato folio, cambrobritannicum. Raii Syn. 



309. 

 P. cambricum perenne, flore sulphureo. Dill.Elth.v. 2. 300. /. 223. 

 P, erraticum, pyrenaicum, flore flavo, Bauh. Pin. 171. P;oJr. 92. 



Robert. Ic. t. l\. 

 Argemone cambrobritannica lutea, capite longiore glabro, &c. 



Moris. V. 2. 279. sect. 3. /, 14./ 12. 

 Meconopsis cambrica. DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 87, 

 In moist rocky shady situations, in Wales and Westmoreland. 

 In various parts of North Wales. Ray. About Kendal, West- 



