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with the hairs oppressed, the peduncle being apparently 

 smooth. 



The pinnate leaves are shown with characteristic 

 narrow segments. 



Red Horned Poppy {Glaucium phcenicenm). 



Like its congener, the Yellow Horned Poppy, a 

 common plant along the sea-coast, the Red Horned 

 Poppy is a lovely flower, and may be known by the 

 same characteristic feature, the long horn-like pods. 

 Another scientific name by which it is known (G. 

 corniculaturn) more or less denotes this, corniculatns 

 meaning a little horn (being a diminutive of cornu, 

 horn). 



These two plants are natives of the Mediterranean 

 region. The Red Horned Poppy is found in France, 

 and the Palatinate of the Rhine, in Germany. 



In this country it occurs rarely on cultivated 

 ground, or waste places. The author has seen it 

 growing on manure-heaps in a farmyard, and it 

 grows also in the vicinity of mills, where foreign 

 wheat is ground for flour, the winnowings and ballast 

 being cast out as fowl-corn. 



The stem is hairy, in which feature it differs from 

 the native maritime species. Like the latter it is 

 also glaucous (hence Glaucium) or bluish-green. This 

 is due to a secretion of wax causing water to run off. 

 The stem is more or less branched. The stem-leaves 

 are much divided nearly to the base, the lobes cut. 



