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POLYANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Glaucium. 5 



Ch. folio laciniato. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 483./. 



Ch. laciniatum. DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 99. 



In waste ground and thickets, especially on a chalky soil. 



j3. Found plentifully at Wimblelon, Surrey, by Mr. M^riy n. Dillenius. 



Perennial. May, June. 



Root spindle-shaped. Stem 2 feet high, branched, swelled at the 

 joints, leafy, round, smooth. Leaves smooth, very deeply pin- 

 natifid, as Prof. DeCandolle justly observes, rather than pin- 

 nate ; their lobes 2 or 3 pair, with a larger terminal one, all 

 rounded, bluntly lobed and notched; the lateral ones sometimes 

 dilated at their lower margin, near the base, almost as if auri- 

 cled J their colour a deep shining green. Fl. bright yellow, in 

 umbels on long, often hairy, stalks. Calyx tawny, often liairy. 

 Seeds black and shining, each with a whitish deciduous crest. 



Every part is brittle, and, when broken, discharges an orange- 

 coloured, fetid juice, with which, as Dioscorides reports, Swal- 

 lows were supposed to restore the sight of their young if blinded j 

 whence the name, formed from the greek appellation of a Swal- 

 low. Dioscorides favours another meaning, which is that the 

 plant appears and disappears with those birds. Its orange juice 

 probably caused it to be given in the jaundice. 



Our variety /3, characterized by the jagged foliage and petals, first 

 mentioned as an English plant, though merely as a variety, by 

 Dillenius, not Ray, has recently been made a species by M. De- 

 Candolle and some other botanists. Appearances are against it, 

 though Miller found no alteration in plants raised from seed. 



264. GLAUCIUM. Horned-poppy. 



Tournef. t. 130. Jmss.236. Fl. 5/-.5G3. Prodr. Fl. Grccc.v. 1. 



357. Gcertn. t.Wb. DeCund. Syst. v. 2. 9-1. 

 Under Chelidonium, in Linn. Gen. 262. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 263. 



Cal. inferior, of 2 oblong, concave, acute, deciduous leaves. 

 Pet. 4<, much larger than the calyx, roundish-obovate, 

 undulated, crumpled, spreading, with short claws, deci- 

 duous ; 2 opposite ones rather the smallest. Filam. nu- 

 merous, capillary, short. Anth. roundish, terminal, of 2 

 lobes. Germ, superior, cylindrical, or somewhat com- 

 pressed, longer than the stamens. Style none. Stigma 

 large, abrupt, permanent, of 2 or 3 cloven, compressed, 

 downy lobes. Pod linear, very long, of 2 or 3 linear, 

 concave valves, and as many cells. Seeds numerous, 

 convex at the outer side, pitted in regular lines, without 

 a crest, disposed irregularly in 2 rows in each cell, being 

 sunk in the hollows of a spongy or membranous par- 

 tition, connected with the linear marginal receptacles. 



