CLASS XIII. ORDER I.J GLAUCIUM. 755 



hairs. Leaves of a light somewhat glaucous green, paler beneath, 

 abounding with a lemon-coloured juice, all petiolated, pinnated, with 

 ovate oblong or lanceolate segments, cut into unequal lobes and serra- 

 tures, smooth, or scattered over with slender hairs. Flowers terminal, 

 solitary, on a long slender pedicle, slightly hairy, as well as the ovate 

 concave calj/x sepals, which fall away when the flower expands. 

 Petals broadly ovate, of a beautiful lemon colour, crumpled and waved 

 on the margin. Stamens numerous, with awl-shaped Jilaments and 

 oblong two celled anthers^ the style short, with from four to six rayed 

 stigma, convex, and free. Capsule elliptic, oblong, smooth, glaucous, 

 with as many ribs as there are stigmas, and opening at the top by from 

 four to six valves. Seeds very numerous, small, attached to lateral 

 membranous scarcely projecting placenta. 



Habitat. — Rock and shady places, rare; various parts of North 

 Wales and Westmoreland; foot of Lidford cascade, Devonshire; 

 Cheddar rocks, Somersetshire; about Edinburgh rocks, Rostrevor hill, 

 cliffs of BenBulben ; and Clifdon, Cunnamara, Ireland. 



Perennial ; flowering in June. 



This genus, of which there are only two or three other species known 

 besides the present, is, according to De Candolle, intermediate between 

 the Papaver and Argemone, only one species of which, the A. 

 mexicanmn is known, which is called by the natives Jigo del inferno, 

 or Devil's Fig of Mexico. 



GENUS III. GLAU'CIUM.— TouRN. Horned Poppy. 



Nat. Ord, PAPAVERA'cEiE. De Cand. 



Gen. Char. Calyx of two caducous pieces. Petals four. Stigma 



two lobed. Capsule a long linear two celled two valved pod. 



Seeds numerous, dotted, attached to an inter-valvular receptacle. — 



Named from glaucus, sea-green ; from the hue of the green parts 



of the plant. 



1. G. lu'teum, Scopili. (Fig. 857.) Yellow Horned Poppy. Pod 



minutely tuberculated ; stem smooth ; stem-leaves lobed and cut, 



cordate at the base, amplexicaul. 



English Flora, vol. iii. p. 6. — Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 

 212. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 17. — Chelidonium Glaucium, Linn. — 

 English Botany, t. 8. — Glaucium Jlavum, Crantz. — De Cand. Prod. 

 1. p. 122. 



Root tapering, the whole plant very glaucous. Stem round, smooth, 

 from two to three feet long, much branched and spreading. Leaves 

 numerous, of a leathery texture, glaucous, and more or less thickly 

 clothed with short rough hairs, the radical leaves numerous, from eight 

 to twelve inches long, stalked, pinuatifid, with dilated unequal cut 

 lobes, much more thickly clothed with hairs than the upper ones, which 



