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Colonist. Agrestal. Cornfields, waste places. Abundant and generally 

 distributed except in some of the cornfields on the Upper Chalk. 

 A. May-August. 

 First record. Papaver Rhoeas Jlore variegato, neer Redding, \_How'], Phyf. 

 Brit. 88, 1650. In Elias Ashmole's copy of this work, in the 

 Bodleian Library, the initials of J. Watlington, an apothecary 

 of Reading, are appended to this record, which was probably 

 given hy him to How. A specimen from Sonning, collected by 

 S. Riiclge about 1800, is in Hei'h. Brit. Mus. It is included in Russell's 

 Newbury Cat. of 1839. 

 P. Rhoeas is a variable plant, and Jordan has given specific value 

 to such of these variations as he thought were constant to their 

 characters in cultivation. 



Vai\ STRiGosuM, Boenn. Prod. Fl. Monast. 157 (1824% in which the 

 hairs on the lower part of the stem are spreading, but those on the 

 peduncles adpressed, is scattered through the county, having been 

 found near Oxford, Abingdon, Newbury, Twyford, Marlow, Maiden- 

 head, Hurley, and Wokingham. At Beedon it was noticed by the 

 Rev. W. M. Rogers. My friend, Mr. H. N. Dixon, in the Journ. Bot. 

 for 1892, 309, gays that when seeds were sown of specimens of this 

 variety, which he gathered in a locality where he did not see P. dubium, 

 two only, out of ten plants thus obtained, proved to be var. strigosum. 

 He therefore considered that it was not a true variety, but I do not 

 think that this experiment is sufficient to prove that the plant was 

 not of hybrid origin. 



Var. Pryorii, Druce, in Rep. of Bot. Exch. Club, 199, 1888. 



In the Flora of Oxfordshire, I drew attention to a plant which had 

 the hairs on the peduncle of a crimson colour, and thought it might 

 be correlated with a slightly different form of leaf; this however did 

 not prove to be the case. Subsequently, in the publication cited, 

 I gave the name in memory of the late Mr. R. A. Pryor, the author of 

 the Flora (f Hertfordshire, who had noticed the plant in that county. 

 The plant is widely distributed and grows with ordinary P. Rhoeas at 

 Cumnor, Boar's Hill, Radley, Bagley, Newbury, West Ilsley, Culham, 

 Wargrave, Farley Hill, Swallowfield, Windsor, Wellington College, 

 Ascot, Maidenhead, Binfield, Ascot, &c. The character is especially 

 noticeable before the plants flower, as on the shortened axis the hairs 

 are closer together, and the crimson colour is more conspicuous ; after 

 flowering the colour to some extent fades. 



Var. RouBiAEi (Vig. [Viq. in Index Kewensis] Diss. 39), var. vestiium, 

 Gren. et Godr. Fl. Fr. i. 58. To this is referred a small flowered 

 form with paler petals, a more decumbent stem which branches from 

 the base, with more divided leaves, and the whole plant more bristly. 

 Autumnal forms of P. Rhoeas with the primary stem destroyed must 



