PAP AVER.] PAPAVERACE.E. 15 



Ovary more or less completely 2-celled. Flower yellow 4. Glaucium. 



Ovary 1-celled. Seeds not crested. Flower violet 5. Roemeria. 



1. PAPA'VER, L. POPPY. 



Annual herbs ; juice milky. Leaves lobed or cut. Flowers on long 

 peduncles. Ovary 1-celled ; style short or 0, stigma discoid or pyramidal 

 with radiating lobes opposite the placentas which project into the cell. 

 Capsule short, opening by very small valves under the lobes of the per- 

 sistent stigma. Seeds small, pitted. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa and N. 

 Asia, with one S. African and one Australian ; species 12. Flowers some- 

 times 3-merous, and the placentas hardly projecting. ETYM. obscure. 



1. P. hyb'ridum, L. ; leaves 2-3-pinnatifid sparingly hispid, fila- 

 ments dilated upwards, capsule globose sessile bristly, stigma convex, 

 rays 4-8. 



Dry fields and waste places from Durham and Carnarvon southwards ; rare 

 in Ireland ; a colonist, Watson ; fl. May-July. Stem 10-18 in., sparingly 

 branched. Leaves with acute or awned lobes. Flower 1-2 in. diam. scarlet, 

 with a black disk. Capsule % in. Stigmatic rays reaching or exceeding the 

 edge of the disk. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, W. Asia to the Himalaya. 



2. P. Argemo'ne, L. ; leaves 2-pinnatifid, filaments dilated upwards, 

 capsule clavate usually hispid, stigma convex, rays 4-6. 



Waste dry places ; rare in Ireland ; a colonist, Watson; fl. May-July. 

 Habit. &c. of P. hybridum, but weaker, flowers smaller and paler, petals 

 narrower, and capsule very different. The smallest British species. 

 DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, W. Asia, introd. in America. 



3. P. du'bium, L. ; leaves 1-2-pinnatifid, filaments filiform, capsule 

 sessile obovoid glabrous, stigma 6-12-rayed. 



Waste places ; a colonist, Watson ; fl. May-July. Habit of succeeding species. 



Hairs of peduncle appressed. Pairs of petals unequal. DISTRIB. Europe, 



N. Asia, N.W. India; introd. in America. 

 Sub-sp. LAMOT'TEI, Boreau (sp. ) ; leaf-lobes shorter, capsiile narrowing from just 



below the stigma to the base, lobes of stigmatic disk spreading. Abundant. 

 Sub-sp. LECOQ'II, Lamotte (sp.) ; leaf- lobes longer, capsule broadest at \ below 



the stigma, lobes of stigmatic disk deflexed. England and Ireland, rare. 



4. P. Rhoe'as, L, ; leaves 1-2-pfnnatifid, filaments filiform, capsule 

 subglobose glabrous, stigma convex with overlapping lobes, rays 8-12. 

 Cornfields and waste places ; rare N. of the Tay ; a colonist, Watson ; fl. Juhe- 



Aug. - Stem branched, hispid. Leaf lobes ascending, with a bristle at the 

 tip. Peduncles with spreading or appressed hairs. Flowers 3-4 in. diam. 

 scarlet; pairs of petals unequal. Capsule stipitate. DISTRIB. Europe N 

 Africa, W. Asia to India. 



P. SOMNI'FERUM, L. ; glaucous, glabrous or setigerous, leaves amplexi- 

 caul sinuate-lobed or toothed, flowers large white or blue-purple, filaments 

 slightly dilated upwards, capsule ovoid or globose stipitate. Opium Poppy. 

 Cornfields and waste places, sporadic. Established in Kent, Syme ; fl. July- 



Aug. This has no claim to be called English. It varies in the shape of the 



capsule, colour of the flower, and has black or white seeds. DISTRIB. Europe, 



W. Africa, all Asia ; introd. in N. America. 



