CLASS XIII. ORDER 1.] PAPAVER. 747 



toothed. Flowers bright yellow, larger than the last, on long slender 

 downy axillary and terminal pedicles, the calyx of eight or ten lanceo- 

 late segments, the outer ones smallest. Petals roundish, heart-shaped, 

 as long or longer than the calyx, four or five. Receptacle small, dry, 

 hairy, bearing a few pale smooth kidney-shaped carpels, slightly rugose. 



Habitat. Banks, fields, and waste places ; less frequent than the 

 last. 



Perennial ; flowering in June and July. 



This is distinguished from the last species by its petiolaled leaves, its 

 entire or sparingly cut stipules, and the flowers are almost as large 

 again. From P. reptans, with which it is sometimes confounded, it is 

 distinguished by its less creeping shorter and not rooting stems, its 

 leaves being solitary, and not several from the joints, as in that species ; 

 its flowers are smaller and terminal, as well as axillary, and its carpels 

 are smooth and slightly rugose, and not rough, as are those of P. 

 reptans. 



CLASS XIII. 

 POLYAN'DRIA. 



(Many Stamens inserted upon the Receptacle.) 



ORDER I. 



MONOGYN'IA. 1 PISTIL. 



GENUS I. PA PATER LINN. Poppy. 

 Nat. Ord. PAPAVERA'CE^:. Juss. 



GEN. CHAR. Calyx of two caducous pieces. Petals four. Stigma, 

 sessile, radiated with from four to twenty rays. Capsule superior, 

 of from four to twenty imperfect cells, formed by projecting recep- 

 tacles beneath the stigmas. Seeds numerous, small, escaping by 

 pores beneath the persistent stigmas. Name, according to Theis, 

 derived from the Celtic word papa, which signifies pap, or the soft 

 pulpy food given the children, in which the seeds of the poppy 

 were formerly boiled, to make the children sleep. 



* Capsule hispid. 



1. P. Argem'one. Linn. (Fig. 850.) Long Prickly-headed Poppy. 

 Stamens with the filaments dilated upwards; capsule club-shaped, 

 ribbed, and bristly ; stem leafy, many flowered ; leaves bi-pinnatifid. 



English Botany, t. 643. English Flora, vol. iii. p. 10. Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. p. 211. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 16. 



