Poppies SI 
The Welsh Poppy (Meconopsis cambrica) has flowers 
almost as large as those of Glauciwm, but of pale 
sulphury-yellow instead of a deep golden hue. The 
ovary is one-celled, and the four or six stigmas form 
a radiating head to the distinct style. The fruit is a 
more oval capsule, and opens just below the style by 
as many little valves as there are stigmas. This 
species, it will be seen, leads up to the true Poppies 
with red flowers. 
The smallest of the red section is the Long Prickly- 
headed Poppy (Papaver argemone), whose petals are 
small and narrow, so that the (S$ 
flower does not resemble the 
Horned Poppy in its fulness 
or cup-shape, but formsa cross 
of petals with greater space 
between each than is found even 
in the Swallow-wort. It grows in 
dry, waste places, on the tops of 
banks and walls, and its weak, pale 
appearance would give one the im- - 
pression that itis merely a specimen 
of the Common Poppy of the corn- 
fields, poverty-stricken owing to pal) 
the seed having fallen on stony 
ground, but there are several small 
differences into which we need not 
enter minutely. Two will serve: 
the anther filaments in the present 
species become stouter upwards, 
and the seed-vessel is club-shaped, bristly, with a 
somewhat conical roof, on which from four to six 
stigmatic rays will be seen. If this seed-vessel is cut 
Long Prickly-headed Poppy 
