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because it was at one time given to children in their pap, or food, to make them sleep. 
We are also told that the seeds, having a pleasant nutlike taste, and being innocuous, 
and without any soporific qualities, have been considered a good addition to the food of 
children. 
SPECIES I—PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM. Linn. 
Puate LVILI. 
Leaves sinuated, lobed or toothed at the margins, the upper- 
most ones amplexicaul ; filaments dilated towards the top. Capsule 
smooth, globular or ovoid, stipitate. Stigmatic disk deeply lobed. 
Lobes oblong, rounded, not contiguous. Stigmatic rays 8 to 15, 
rather slender, not extending quite to the apices of the lobes of the 
disk. 
Sup-Srecies —Papaver hortense. Hussenot. 
Pirate LV Ek, (A2* 
F. somniferum, Leitch. Ie. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. III. Pap. Tab. XVII. Fig. 4481. 
P. hortense, Hussenot, Chard. Nanc. p. 39. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 58. 
Godr. F). de Lory. ed. i. Vol. 1. p. 36. 
P. setigerum, Godr. Fl. de Lorr. ed. ii. Vol. I. p. 35. London Catalogue, No. 43 * 
(non D. C.) 
P. somniferum, var. nigrum, D. C. Fl. Fr. Vol. IV. p. 633. Drebisson, Fl. de la Nor- 
mandie, ed. ili. p. 14. 
P. somniferum, var. setigerum, Godr. Fl. de Lorr. ed. ii, Vol. L. p. 35. Coss. & Germ 
Fl. des Environs de Paris, ed. ii. p. 93. 
P. somniferum, Gmel. Bad. Als. Vol. II. p. 479. Boreau, Fl. du Cent. de la Fr. ed. iii 
Vol. II. p. 31. Lowe, Man. Fl. of Madeira, p. 11. 
Capsule globular, stipitate, opening by minute valves or teeth 
Rays of the stigmatic disk spreading nearly in one plane. Seeds 
black, brown, or dark grey. 
A weed in cornfields, and a straggler on waste places and 
newly-turned soil. Local. Abundant in cornfields at Greenhithe, 
Darenth, Cobham, and several other places in Kent, where it 
seems as well established as the common red Poppies; but this is 
the only county where I have seen it in the same places year after 
year. Professor Babington mentions that in the Fens ‘“ P. som- 
niferum’”’ (by which I suppose the present plant is intended) is still 
occasionally to be seen, the seeds having probably been buried for 
many years, as the plant is stated to have been largely cultivated at 
* The Plate is “P. somniferum,” E. B. 2145, with a capsule (A) added by Mr. J. 
Sowerby. This ought to have had the stigmatic disk placed on the capsule without the 
intervention of a neck, as represented on the plate. 
