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4. Kennet. Theale. Padworth. 



5. Loddon. Twyford. Hurley. Maidenhead. 



Specimens with white hitex, which agreed excellently with the plate 

 of P. modestum, Jord. in the Icones, have been seen in fields between 

 Culham and Hurley, and specimens of P. errahundiim at Cothill. In 

 the latter locality a form occurred in which the capsules were infected 

 with a gall insect, so that the capsule became hypertrophied into 

 a globose shape nearly an inch in diameter. A form with very long 

 capsules occurred with foreign casuals at Didcot, but I have not yet 

 been able to identify it. The leaves of P. duMum vary much in shape 

 and texture, and the seeds also vary in colour. In the unopened 

 calyces the petals are of a very much paler hue than those of P. Rhoeas 

 in a similar condition. 



P. dubium occurs in all the bordering counties, but P. Lecoqii does 

 not appear to be recorded for E. Gloucestershire. 



P. Arg'emone, Linn. Sp. PI. 506 Ci753\ Long Rough-headed Poppy. 

 Argemone capitulo longiore, C. B. Pin. 172. 



Top. Bot. 21. Syme, E. B. i. 91, t. 61. Nyman, 24. Fl. Oxf. 18. 

 Colonist or native. Agrestal. Waysides, cornfields, &c. Not un- 

 common and widely distributed. A. May-July. 

 First record. P. Argemone. Dr. Noehden, in Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Appleton, Walker. Faringdon. Coleshill. 



2. Ock. Wootton, Boswell in Fl. Oxf. Tubney. Frilford. Besilsleigh. 



Marcham. Cholsey. Steventon. Abingdon. Blewbury. Hag- 

 borne. Didcot. Aston Tirrel. Long Wittenham. Kingston 

 Bagpuze. 



3. Pang. Streatley. Pangbourn. Basildon. Tilehurst. Buckle- 



bury. Ashampstead. Hermitage. 



4. Kennet. Cornfields, North Heath, Russell's Cat Reading, Tufnail. 



Newbury. Lambourn. Shefford. Padworth, Aldermaston. 

 Theale. Hampstead Marshall. Enborne. West Ilsley. 



5. Loddon. Near Marlow frequent. Mill. Early, Tvfnail. Park 



Place, Stanton. Hurst. Coleman's Moor. Wargrave. Maiden- 

 head. Twyford. Jouldern's Ford. 

 A small form found on dry wall-tops is probably P. micranthmn, 

 Boreau, Fl. du Centr. Fr. ed. 3, ii. 29. P. Argemone, though widely 

 distributed, is much less frequent than the two preceding species. 

 It is a plant of sandy soils, and from its growing by roadsides has 

 more the appearance of being a native than the other red poppies. 

 From a large tract of the grassy ground of the chalk range, and from 

 the uncultivated heathy district of the south-west, the poppies are 

 practically absent. 



P. Argemone occurs in all the bordering counties. 



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