94 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
SPECIES I—MECONOPSIS CAMBRICA. Jig. 
Puate LXIII.* 
Papaver Cambricum, Linn. Sm. Eng. Fl. Vol. III. p. 12; and Eng. Bot. ed. i, No, 66. 
Stem with several flowers. Leaves stalked, pinnately divided, 
almost pinnate, with ovate-acute lobed or pinnatifid segments. 
In moist, rocky, and shady places. Local, and apparently 
confined to the west side of England. Wild in the counties of 
Cornwall, Glamorgan, Brecknock, Montgomery, Merioneth, Car- 
narvon; more doubtfully so in Denbighshire, Yorkshire, West- 
moreland, Cumberland, and Dumfries. Introduced in Edinburgh, 
Kinross, Aberdeen, and Moray. 
England, [Scotland,| Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
Rootstock brown, scaly, with short branches. Stem 1 to 2 
feet high, bearing a few leaves, which are also produced, in greater 
abundance, from the base. Leaves stalked, very deeply pinnately 
partite, with 2 to 4 pairs of segments and a terminal one joined 
together at the base by only a very narrow wing on each side of 
fhe midrib; leaflets much narrowed at the base, with a few lobes 
or large blunt teeth on each side, terminal leaflet often 3-cleft. 
Peduncles terminating the stem and branches, and sometimes 
produced from the axils of the upper leaves, 6 to 8 inches long, 
bearing a bright yellow flower 24 to 3 inches in diameter. 
Buds nodding. Sepals with scattered flexuous hairs. Petals 
roundish, concave. Style about -{; inch long, terminated by 
a small button formed by 4 to 6 radiating stigmas. Capsule 1 to 
1 inch long, very dark brown when ripe, with 4 to 6 prominent 
ribs; valves 4 to 6, opening in the spaces between the ribs and 
becoming reflexed, scarcely one-fourth the length of the capsule. 
Plant nearly glabrous, except at the base of the stems where the e 
are scattered woolly hairs. Foliage tender pale green, slightly 
glaucous. Sap lemon-coloured. 
Welsh Poppy, Yellow Poppy. 
French, Méconopside de Galles. 
The specific name Cambrica indicates its native country Wales, where it is plentifully 
found. Its yellow flowers are handsome, and worth introducing into shrubberies, but in 
the flower garden it would be rivalled too successfully by the Eschscholtzia, which is 
neater and equally showy. The rapidity with which the Poppies open their sepals and 
allow the petals to expand has been remarked by Dr. Withering, and is worthy of observa- 
tion by all lovers of nature. The entomologist considers the birth of the butterfly, and its 
immediate perfection, as a curious and pleasing phenomenon, but it is equalled in the 
* The Plate is E. B. 66, unaltered. 
