NOTES SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE 



Jfkra 0f llje ^^rbtal Cnal-fitltr 



1888. 



By JAIMES WALTER WHITE, F.L.S. 



Papaver Argemone, Linn. 



The two bristly-capsuled poppies are among our 

 greater rarities ; instances of the occurrence of 

 either of them within the Bristol district being 

 extremely few. In 1843 Mr. Gr. S. Gibson found 

 P. Argemone near Uphill ; and in 1878 a specimen 

 was gathered by myself near Stapleton, whence 

 the plant is recorded by Swete on the authority of 

 Mr. H. 0. Stephens and Mr. T. B. Flower. The 

 connection of P. liyhridum with our local flora 

 depends entirely upon a statement communicated 

 by the late Rev. J. C. Collins, of Bridgwater, to 

 Mr. Hewett Watson, and which will be found in 

 New Bot. Guide, Suppl. as follows : — " Papaver 

 liyhridum. Abundantly in fields at the mouth of 

 the river Parret, at Steart and Burnham. J. C. 

 Collins, MSS.^^ These poppies are colonists, in- 

 habiting cornfields and waste ground, and their 

 scarcity with us is very probably due to our lack 



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