92 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Cornfields, roadsides, and waste places, &c. A rather common 
weed, preferring a sandy or gravelly soil. As generally distributed 
as P. dubium, but less abundant. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer. 
Stem 6 to 18 inches high, little branched except at the base, from 
which several stems usually arise, which are decumbent below, and — 
then erect. Radical leaves stalked, deeply pinnatifid, with distant 
spreading lobes, which are again pinnatifid, the ultimate segments 
suddenly acuminate, and terminating in a bristle as in P. Rheeas 
and P. dubium. Stem leaves sessile, sub-ternate, bi- or tri-pinnatifid, 
with longer and more slender segments than in the radical leaves. 
Peduncles with adpressed hairs. Calyx with scattered hairs similar 
to those on the peduncle. Flowers 2 to 23 inches across. Petals 
obovate-wedge-shaped, not contiguous when fully expanded, light 
scarlet, with the base dark purple, nearly black. Filaments dilated, 
oblanceolate, abruptly acuminate, purplish black, terminating in 
a white point on which the blue anther lobes are situated. 
Capsule 2 to 1 inch long, four or five times as long as broad, 
with very prominent longitudinal lines, indicating the situa- 
tion of the placente, and a greater or less number of curved, 
ascending, bristly hairs, most numerous towards the top. Stigmatic 
disk with very thick prominent rays, curved downwards at the ends, 
and often projecting beyond the disk itself. Whole plant green, 
not glaucous, more or less hairy, especially at the base of the stem, 
and on the petioles and midribs of the radical leaves, where the 
hairs are usually spreading, though on the rest of the plant they 
are adpressed. 
This is the smallest and most elegant of the British Poppies. 
Withering describes as a species, under the name of P. maritimum, 
a starved state of this plant bearing only a single flower and not 
above 4 inches high. 
Long Prickly-headed Poppy. 
The specific name is probably derived from argemon, cataract, a disease of the 
lens of the eye, for which an infusion of this plant was considered a cure, and possibly its 
emollient power did allay inflammation. 
SPECIES V.—PAPAVER HYBRIDUM. Linn. 
Puate LXII.* 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. III. Pap. Tab. XIV. Fig. 4476. 
Leaves very deeply bi- or tri-pinnatifid,none of them amplexicaul. 
Petals nearly as broad as long. Filaments much dilated towards the 
* The Plate is E. B, 43, with fruit and dissections added by Mr. J. E. Sowerby. 
