10 POLYANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Papaver. 



ma with from 5 to 8 rays, a little raised above the capsule, even 

 in its early state. Caps, the size of a filberd, furrowed length- 

 wise, thickly beset with rigid, ascending, tawny bristles. 

 A permanent species, no more hybrid than any other of its genus. 



2. P. Argemone. Long-rough-headed Poppy. 



Capsule club-shaped, ribbed, bristly. Calyx slighdy hairy. 

 Stem leafy, many-flowered. Leaves doubly pinnatifid. 



P. Argemone. Linn. Sp. PI. 725. Wilkl. v. 2. 11 44. Fl. Br. 566. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 9. t. 643. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. t. 38. Hook. Scot. 

 168. DeCand. Sjjst. v. 2. 74. Fl. Dan. t. 867. 



P. n.1061. Hall. Nomend. 95. Hist.v.2. 15 ; n. 1063, bj/ mistake. 



P, laciniato folio, capitulo hispido longiore. Raii Syn. 308. 



Argemone capitulo longiore. Bauli. Pin. 172. Lob. Ic. 276./. 

 Ger. Em. 373./. Dalech. Hist. 440./. 



/3. Papaver maritimum. fVith. 486. 



In corn-fields and their borders, on gravelly or sandy ground. 



/S. In sandy ground near the sea. With. 



Near Beverley, Yorkshire. Mr. R. Teesdale. 



Annual. June, July. 



Herbage resembling the preceding, but the bristles on the stem are 

 less closely pressed, and the segments of the leaves somewhat 

 broader. Pet. pale scarlet, black at the base, soon falling ; 

 often jagged. Stamens dilated upwards. Rays of the stigma ge- 

 nerally 5, rarely 6, sometimes but 4. Caps, narrow, bristly, swell- 

 ing upwards, with angles, or ribs, in number answering to the 

 rays, the intermediate spaces even, not furrowed ; bristles most 

 numerous towards the top. The flowers are sometimes double. 



j8 is a trivial variety, bearing one flower only, as often ha))pens 

 with starved maritime plants. 



* ^ Capsules smooth. 



3. P. duhium. Long-sniooth-headed Poppy. 



Capsule smooth, oblong, angular. Stem many-flowered, 

 hairy. Bristles on theflower-stalks close-pressed. Leaves 

 doubly pinnatifid. 



P. dubium. Linn. Sp. PI. 726. Willd. v. 2. 1 146. R. Br. 567. 



Engl. Bot. V. 9. t. 644. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. t. 37. Hook. Scot. 



168. DeCand. Sysf. v. 2. 75. Fl. Dan. t. 902. 

 P. Rhoeas. Dickenson in Shaw's Staffordshire, v. 1. I \0j from the 



author. 

 P. n. 1063. Hall. Nomend. 95. Hi^t. v. 2. 15 ; n. 1065. 

 P. laciniato folio, capitulo longiore glabro. Raii Syn. 309. 

 Argemone capitulo longiore glabro. Moris, v. 2. 279. sect. 3. 



t.U.fW. 

 In cultivated fields, especially on a light soil. 



