22 BRITISH BOTANY. 



Stem erect, hairy, more or less branched. Leaves deeply cut, 

 2-3~pinnatifid, with tapering lobes, terminating in a bristle. Pe- 

 duncles shorter than the capsules, enlarged at their tops. Flowers 

 large, of a beautiful violet. Sepals hairy, concave. Capsule 

 linear, cylindrical, longitudinally striated, with spreading bristles. 

 Seeds cinereous, reniform. 



Fields in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. Annual; June.. We 

 have gathered it, with many other exotics, at Wandsworth Steam- 

 boat Pier. 



Glaucium, Tournf. — Herbage hoary, glaucous. Leaves pin- 

 nate or pinnatifid. Flowers large, nearly solitary, terminal. Se- 

 pals herbaceous, caducous. Petals 4. Stigma capitate, two- 

 lobed. Capsule elongate, linear (like a pod), two-celled, with a 

 spongy dissepiment, opening by valvular dehiscence from the 

 sumtnit to the base. Seeds without an aril. 



G. luteum. Scop. Yellow Horned Poppy. — e.b. 8. l.b.s. 46. 

 A. 16. C. 30. Lat. 50-57°. Alt. 0- yds. Tern. 52-48°. 



Stems reclining or ascending, robust, branching. Root-leaves 

 lyrate-pinnatifid, with sinuate or toothed lobes, petiolate ; stem- 

 leaves embracing the stem, all very glaucous and more or less 

 rough or tubercular. Capsules linear, cylindrical, often arcuate 

 (shaped like a bow). 



Sea-shores. Biennial; July-September. 



G. phoeniceum, Gsert. — G. corniculatwn, Curt. Scarlet 

 Horned Poppy. — e.b. 1433. 



Slenderer, and not so glaucous as the preceding. Stem hairy. 

 Leaves deeply pinnatifid, with narrower lobes than in G. luteum. 

 Flowers smaller, on shorter peduncles. Petals red or orange, 

 with a purple spot at the base. Capsule rough. 



At Wandsworth Steamboat Pier, with a multitude of exotic 

 things. In this locality it has been noticed since 1852. Annual; 

 June-September. 



Chelidonium, Tournf. — Perennial herbs, with a copious yellow 

 milky juice, pinnatifid leaves and yellow flowers. Sepals 2, slightly 

 coloured. Stigma two-lobed. Capsule linear (like a pod), one- 

 celled, with a defective partition, opening by two valves from the 

 base to the summit. Seeds arillate. 



C. majus, Lin. Common Celandine. — e.b. 1581. l.b.s. 45. 

 A. 14. C. 50. Lat. 50-5(r. Alt. 0-200 yds. Tom. 52-47°. 



