96 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Stem erect, branched. Radical leaves stalked, pinnatifid or bi- 
pinnatifid. Stem leaves sessile, thrice pinnatifid, with a tendency 
to be ternate, segments very narrow. fPeduncles terminating 
the stem and branches slightly curved, 2 to 4 inches long, bear- 
ing a single flower 2 to 23 inches in diameter. Buds nodding. 
Sepals with a very few woolly hairs. Petals roundish-obovate, 
violet-purple, with a large dark spot at the base. Capsule linear, 
cylindrical, 23 to 3 inches long, with a few bristly hairs. Plant 
smooth, or slightly hairy, the leaves dark green, and somewhat 
resembling those of Papaver hybridum; the segments as in that 
plant terminating in short bristles and the flowers very soon losing 
their petals. 
Violet Horn Poppy. 
GENUS IV—GLAUCIUM. Towrnef. 
Sepals 2, herbaceous, very caducous, falling off when the flower 
opens. Petals 4, convolute in estivation, caducous. Stamens 
indefinite. Capsule elongate-linear, resembling a siliqua, 2-celled 
from the presence of a spongy spurious dissepiment which unites 
the 2 nervelike placentee, and opening from the summit to the 
base by 2 valves. Style very short. Stigma sub-mitriform, with 
2 deflexed lobes. Seeds punctured, without a strophiole, half 
immersed in the spurious dissepiment. 
Annual or biennial glaucous herbs, with large showy flowers 
and very long pod-like capsules. Buds erect. 
The name Glaucium comes from the word glaucus, sea-green, in allusion to the 
colour of its leaves. 
SPECIES I—GLAUCIUM CORNICULATUM. Cw. 
Puate LXV.* 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. III. Pap. Tab. XII. Fig. 4471; and G. rubrum, 
Tab. XI. Fig. 4470. 
Chelidonium corniculatum, Zinn. Sp. Pl. p. 724. 
Glaucium Pheenicium, Crantz. Sm. Eng. Fl. Vol. III. p. 7; and Eng. Bot. No, 1433. 
Stem hairy. Stem leaves semi-amplexicaul, deeply pinnatifid. 
Pod hairy, terminated by the large deflexed stigmatic lobes. 
It has been reported to occur in the county of Nerfolk and in 
the Isle of Portland, and occasionally a specimen appears as an 
escape from cultivation, but it cannot claim to be even a naturalized 
plant. 
[England.]| Annual. Summer. 
* The Plate is E. B. 1433, unaltered. 
