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divided into toothed or 3-lobed or entire segms.: fls. 

 2 in. across; petals brick-red, with a green spot at the 

 base bordered with rose-red: caps, between club- and 

 top-shaped, flat on top, the disk 6-11-nerved. Santa 

 Inez Mountains and southward in Calif.; also Mt. 

 TamalpaJs (near San Fran- 

 cisco). 



FF. Shape of caps, mostly 



obovate or oblong. 

 3. arenarium, Bieb. Annual, 

 12-20 in. high, from a perpen- 

 dicular root, erect, sparingly 

 beset with bristles which are 

 spreading on the st. and 

 appressed on the foliage: 

 Ivs. twice pinnatisect 

 into minute linear or 

 linear-oblong segms. : bud 

 obovoid 

 ornarrow- 

 obovoid : 

 fls. pur- 

 ile, with a 

 ark spot 



each petal; filaments not 

 dilated: caps, obovate to 

 oblong ortop-shaped, with 

 a convex disk; stigmatic 



rays 7-9. Sandy places in 



Caucasus and Caspian ' ^BRKL ^ 



region. '" " 



4. dubium, Linn. Erect 

 usually robust annual, 

 hirsute, 1-2 ft. high, 



branched, few-fid. : Ivs. glaucescent, more or less 

 appressed setulose or often nearly glabrous above, 

 the lower ones pinnatifid or nearly so with the 

 segms. pinnately cut and lobes ovate or roundish 

 or sometimes much narrower; st.-lvs. usually pin- 

 natifid with narrow acute lobes: peduncle long; fls. pale 

 rose, vermilion or seldom white, mostly darker in 

 center; petals suborbicular, nearly 1 in. long; anthers 

 violet and filaments red: caps, glabrous, obovate- 

 oblong or oblong-clavate. Eu., X. Afr.; run wild in 

 parts of X. Amer. Very variable, and probably little 

 known in gardens. Var. laevigatum, Elk. (P. laerigd- 

 lum, Bieb.). Glabrous or with a few small bristles: fls. 

 purple, usually spotted; petals small, obovate: caps, 

 narrowly top-shaped or club-shaped; stigmatic rays 

 8-10. Medit. to extratropical Himalaya. It is doubt- 

 ful whether the plant sold under this name is true, for 

 in G.C. III. 5:21 it is shown with large, roundish, 

 overlapping petals. 



FFF. Shape of caps, globose. 



5. Rhoeas, Linn. CORN POPPY. Fig. 2750. Hispid 

 annual, or rarely glabrescent, erect and branching, 1 to 

 about 3 ft.: Ivs. coarsely toothed (rarely nearly entire) to 

 more or less pinnatifid, lanceolate in outline: bud oblong- 

 ovoid, roundish at apex: petals orbicular or nearly so, 

 entire or sometimes crenate or incised, cinnabar-red, 

 deep purple to scarlet, white and variously marginate, 

 sometimes dark-spotted, the fls. 2 in. or more across; 

 stigmatic disk usually 10-radiate, but varying from 5-18. 

 Eu. and Asia; run wild in N. Amer. Abundant in fields 

 in Eu. Gn. 30, p. 297. An immensely variable species, 



from 25-30 botanical varieties and subvarieties being 

 recognized; and the cultural variations are numberless. 

 In cult, even,' shade known to the opium poppy has 

 been reproduced in the corn poppy, but the fls. are 

 always smaller. In the wild it varies greatly, the foliage 

 once or twice pinnately parted, the bristles many or 

 few, appressed or spreading, the fls. spotted or not. Up 

 to 1886 the French poppies were considered the best 

 strain. Since then the strain or race known as Shirley 

 poppies has surpassed all others. This strain was 

 developed by the Rev. \V. Wilks, secretary of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society. (See p. 2456.) Var. ranunculi- 

 florum, Hort., is a strain with double fls. in various 

 colors, self and variegated, with the petals entire, 

 rounded and somewhat reflexed. Var. japonicum, 

 Hort., is a strain intro. about 1893 from Japanese 

 gardens, and said to have smaller and fuller fls. than 

 ordinary and of more varied shades. They are called 

 Japanese or Japanese pompons. Rhoeas was the name 

 used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for the corn 

 poppy." 



Var. urnbrdsum, Mott. (P. umbrosum, Hort.), has 

 petals of a darker red than the typical P. Rhaeas, and 

 blackish spots. It was intro. by Vilmorin about 1891, 

 and was considered a marked gain in productiveness. 

 The habit is dwarf, compact, much branched. Soon 

 after a double form was distributed. Mottet considers 

 it a form of P. Rheeas, but some botanists consider it a 

 form of P. commutatum, a species apparently not other- 

 wise in garden cult. P. umbrosum was found growing 

 wild in Attica. 



Var. Hodkeri, W. Miller (P. Hodkeri, Baker). A puz- 

 zling plant found in gardens of India, and 

 of unknown parentage. It is nearest to 

 P. Rhasas, and "differs in its great size, 

 for it forms a bushy herb 4 ft. high and 

 upward, and in the great number of 

 the stigmatic rays, which are 12-20, i. e., 

 nearly double those of P. Rheeas; the fls., 

 caps, and seeds also are much larger 

 and the stigma broader in proportion." 

 The fls. attain 3^ in. diam., and vary 

 from pale rose to bright crimson, with a 

 white or black spot at the base. B.M. 

 6729. Gn. 29, p. 139. G.C. II. 25:9. 

 Said to revert oc- 

 casionally to P. 

 Rhaeas. 



The flower-gar- 

 den forms of P. 

 Rheeas give remark- 

 able color effects. 

 Probably no plant 

 so quickly and 

 cheaply satisfies 



2751. Poppies ff^^r one's love of color, 



in the year 1613. 

 Five flowers 

 from "Hortus 

 Eystettensis " 

 (redrawn and 

 reduced, indi- 

 cating the antiq- 

 uity of some of 

 the main types 

 that are popular 

 today). P. som- 

 niferum. 



The season of 



bloom, which 



is mostly July 



in the N., is rather short, but it may 



be considerably extended by succes- 



sional sowings and by not allowing the 



plants to seed. Begin to sow as early 



