756 GLAUCIUM. fCLASS XIII. ORDER I. 



are unequally lobed or cut, rounded or heart-shaped at the base, em- 

 bracing the stem, and sometimes nearly smooth on the under side. 

 Flowers numerous, lateral and terminal, on shortish pedicles. Calyx 

 of two ovate lanceolate concave lobes, scattered over with hairs, and 

 falling off as the flower expands. Petals four, about an inch and half 

 long, roundish, ovate, creased, of a fine golden yellow colour, mostly 

 with an irregular crimson spot at the base. Stigma of two spreading 

 lobes. Pod from eight to twelve inches long, curved, roughish, with 

 small tnbercles, two valved, filled with a spongy inter-valvular 

 substance, in which are imbedded the smallish kidney-shaped seeds, of 

 a dark shining colour, beautifully reticulated. 



Habitat. Sandy sea shores, and amongst rock ; frequent. 



Biennial ; flowering in July to September. 



It is remarkable with what rapidity the pods of this species increase 

 after the expansion of the flower, which, indeed, is rarely for more 

 than one day. The colour of the petals is mostly deeper by cultivation, 

 and the dark spot at the base becomes larger. As a border flower it is 

 not much esteemed. 



2. G. cornicula* turn, Curt. (Fig, 858.) Scarlet Horned Poppy. 

 "Stem hairy; stem-leaves pinnatifid, cut; pod rough, with upright 

 bristles." Smith. 



Lindley, Synopsis, p. 18. De Cand. Prod. 1. p. 122. G. phceniceum, 

 Geertn. English Botany, t. 1433. English Flora, vol. iii. p. 7. 

 Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 212. 



" Root tapering. Herb rather less glaucous, and more upright than 

 the preceding. Stem clothed with spreading hairs. Leaves all oblong, 

 hairy, deeply and unequally pinnatifid and cut, the upper ones clasping 

 the stem. Flower-stalks hairy, shorter than the calyx, which is very 

 hairy. Petals smaller and narrower than in G. luteum, of a rich 

 scarlet, with an oblong black spot at the base. Pod clothed with 

 numerous rigid silky close pressed or upright bristles." 



Hnbitat." In Portland Island. Label. Sent from Norfolk by 

 Mr. Stillingfleet. Hudson. No person has found it since." 



Annual ; flowering in June and July. 



This species we only know in a cultivated state, nor does it appear to 

 have been otherwise known to both Curtis and Smith ; the latter 

 remarks, in the English Botany, " In Chelsea garden it has from time 

 immemorial been coming up every year as a weed, and we have, as 

 well as Mr. Curtis, (though he has not acknowledged it), drawn a 

 garden specimen." Under these circumstances (as we are not aware 

 of its having been since found wild) we shall be pardoned doing the 

 same thing, and giving Smith's description of it, though perhaps it 

 would be much better to entirely omit it in our Flora. 



3. G. viola' ceum, Juss. (Fig. 859.) Violet Horned Poppy. Pods 

 erect, three or four valved, with membranous disseppiments, bristly 



