20 



2. PAPAVERACE^i:. 



conical, hairy; carpels 30-40, small, compressed, with a short 

 beak, the sides covered Avith small, blunt, wrinkled 

 tubercles. 



Swamps at Murray Bridge ; reservoir, Bridgewater. — 

 Sept. -Dec. — Western Asia. 



Family 2. PAPAVERACE/E. 



Capsule swollen and oblong; stigmas several, 



radiating Papavee 1 



Capsule long, linear, 2-valved. 



Stigmas 2, capitate; capsule 2 celled ... Gl.\dcium 2 

 Stigmas 4, awlshaped ; capsule 1-celled ... Eschscholtzia 



Papaver, L. 



Petals crumpled in bud ; stigmas sessile and radiating 

 from the centre ot a disk which crowns the ovary ; capsule 

 1-celled, subdivided into several compartments by as many 

 partitions and opening under the stigmatic disk. Flowers 

 solitary on long peduncles ; herbs with a milky juice. 



P. hybrichiia 1 



P. 

 P. 



lihoeas 2 

 dubium 3 



Ifoiigh Foppy. Erect, 

 twice or thrice pinnati- 



Fhaas 



Capsule bristly 



Capsule glabrous. 



Capsule subglobular 



Capsule oblong 



1. Papaver hybridum, L 



more or less villous annual ; leaves 

 sect, with linear lanceolate lobes; 

 petals red, usually with a dark , 

 purple spot at base ; filaments 

 purplish, thickened in the upper 

 part ; anthers violet ; stigmatic 

 rays 6-8, broad, reaching to the 

 edge of the disk, which is sinu- 

 ate, but not lobed : capsule 

 ovoid, studded with stiff, curved 

 bristles. 



Common in cultivated fields 

 and on roadsides. — Sept. -Nov. — 

 Central and southci-n Europe ; 

 western Asia. 



2. P. Rhoeas. Field Fopptj. 

 Annual, with stiff spreading 

 hairs; leaves pinnatisect, witli 

 linear-lanceolate, sharply toothed 

 segments ; flowers large, scarlet ; 

 filaments slender ; stigmatic rays 

 8-14, not reaching the edge of 

 the disk, Avhich has overlapping 

 lobes; capsule smooth, obovoid or 

 almost globular. 



Cultivated and wa.ste land.— Sept.-Nov.— Europe; 



western A.sia. 



Pdubiunt 



Papaver hybridum. 



