PAPAVERACE®. 89 
Sun-Srecres I.—Papaver Lamottei. Bor. 
Pratt LIX.* 
P. levigatum, “ M. B.,” Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. III. Pap. Tab. XVI. 
Fig. 4478 B? 
P. dubium, Lamotte, in “Mém. Académie de Clermont, 1851.” Boreau, Fl. du Centre de 
la Fr. ed. ii. Vol. II. p. 30. Bad. Fl. of Cambridge, Appendix, p. 301; and Man. 
Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 15. 
Leaves pinnatifid, with short, distant, abruptly acuminated 
lobes ; lobes entire, or again pinnatifid. Capsule elongate-clavate, 
narrowing downwards from close to the summit to the base. Stig- 
matic disk with the lobes not folded over the sides of the capsule. 
Milk-sap white. 
Cornfields, cultivated ground, and roadsides. A common weed 
throughout Britain, more frequent in Scotland than P. Rheas, 
and reaching even to the Orkney and Shetland Islands. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer. 
Very similar to P. Rhoeas in size and general aspect, but the 
lobes of the leaves are usually shorter and more abruptly pointed. 
The peduncles have the hairs always adpressed. The flowers are 
smaller, from 24 to 3 inches in diameter, the petals not so broad, 
even the outer pair having the breadth not much greater than the 
length, and never more than once and a half broader than long ; 
the scarlet colour also is much paler than that of P. Rheeas. Pistils 
longer than the stamens. The capsule is often 1 inch long, three or 
four times as long as broad, with the lobes of the disk rounded, 
much shallower than in P. Rheeas, and not overlapping at the 
edges. Stigmatic rays not quite reaching the termination of the 
lobes. The base of the capsule is ob-conical, not suddenly con- 
tracted above the torus as in P. Rhoeas, so that it cannot be termed 
stipitate. 
The figure of P. levigatum, quoted above from Reichenbach, 
appears to be a smooth variety of P. Lamottei, although the flower is 
coloured lake-red, which is never the case in the present plant; but 
the colouring of the plates in Reichenbach’s Papaveraceze is often 
extremely incorrect; P. hybridum, for example, being represented 
with scarlet petals instead of crimson, and the anthers of P. Rhoeas 
and dubium being coloured yellow, while they are always purple, 
dark brown, or black. 
* The Plate is “ P. dubium,” E. B. 644, with capsule added by Mr. J. E 
‘Sowerby. 
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