ORD. XXI. Rhoeades. 387 
PAPAVER RHCEAS. RED, or CORN POPPY. 
NRT TE i a oN SS 
SYNONYMA. Papaver erraticum. Pharm. Lond. Papaver 
erraticum majus. Bauh. Pin. p. 171. Papaver erraticum 
Rheeas, sive sylvestre. Park. Theat. p. 367. Papaver laciniato 
folio, capitulo breviore glabro, annuum, Rheeas dictum. aii. 
Synop. p. 308. Peas Theoph. Diosc. Papaver foliis semipinnatis 
hispidis fructu ovato glabro. Hall. Hist, Stirp. Helv. n. 1064. 
P. Rheeas. Gerard. Emac. p. 371. Hudson. Flor. Ang. p. 250. 
Withering. Bot. Arr. p. 551.  Relhan. Fler. Cantab. p. 203. 
Curtis, Flor. Lond. iii, n. 36. 
Class Polyandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 648. 
ss. Gen. Ch. Cor, 4-petala, Cal. 2-phyllus. Caps. 1-locularis, 
sub stigmate persistente poris dehiscens. 
Sp. Ch. P. caps. glabris globosis, caule piloso multifloro, fol. pin- 
natifidis incisis. 
THE root is annual, simple, fibrous: the stalk is upright, 
branched, having hairs standing at right angles with the stem, 
which rises from one to two feet in height: the leaves are pin- 
nated, toothed, hairy on both sides, at the base sheath-like: the 
peduncles are slender, furnished with hairs like the stem, and each 
supports a single flower: the calyx consists of two leaves, which 
are ovate, rough, concave, and deciduous: the corolla is composed 
of four petals, which are large, spreading, roundish, unequal, of a 
bright scarlet colour, and marked at the base with a shining black 
spot: the filaments are numerous, slender, purplish, and furnished 
with roundish compressed anther: the germen is egg-shaped, 
truncated at the top: there is no style: the stigma is convex. 
radiated: the radii of a purple colour, and permanent: the capsule 
