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Leaves simply toothed or incised, glaucous, hispid. Capsule obovate, glabrous. 

 Flowers large, pale mauve or white. 



Frequent in waste places on the littoral. May-June. 



P. Rhceas L. Common Poppy. Leaves 1-2 pinnatilid. Peduncles with 

 spreading or adpressed hairs. Capsule subglobose, glabrous; stigma with 8-12 

 rays. Flowers large, scarlet. 



Common in cultivated fields. May- June. 



P. dubium L. Long smooth-headed Poppy. Leaves 1-2 pinnatifid. Hairs 

 of peduncles adpressed. Pairs of petals unequal. Capsule sessile, oblong, 

 glabrous. Stigma 6- 12 rayed. Anthers dull violet. Flowers red. 



Cultivated fields, common. May-June. 



P. plnnatifidum Moris. (Plate I). Differs from the last by its simply 

 incised leaves, yellow anthers, and longer narrower capsule. 



It grows with P. dubium at Menton, Nice, etc., and flowers in May. 



P. hybridum L. = P. hispidum Lam. Round prickly-headed Poppy. 

 Leaves 2-3 pinnatifid with acute lobes, sparingly hispid, except beneath where 

 the segments and prominent rib of the petiole is clothed with bristly hairs. 

 Capsule globose, sessile, bristly ; stigma convex, rays 4-8. Flowers rather small 

 pals purplish red or wine coloured with black disk. Petals broadly ovate 18-20 mm. 

 long. The anthers are pale blue before the flower opens and turn slaty. 



Cultivated fields. April-May. 



See notes on the colour of this plant by H. S. T. and G. C. Druce in " Journal 

 of Botany," 1913, pp. 172-225. 



P. Argemone L. Long prickly-headed Poppy. Leaves 2 pinnatifid. 

 Capsules narrow oblong, contracted at base, usually hispid ; stigma convex, rays 

 4-6. Habit of the last but weaker ; flowers redder and petals narrower, and 

 capsule clavate. 



Cultivated fields on the littoral of the Var, but chiefly in the mountain region 

 of Alpes-Marit. April-June. 



QLAUCIUM Gaertn. 



Q. flavum Crantz = Q. luteum Scop. Yellow horned poppy. Leaves 

 glaucous, lyrate-pinnatifid, rather thick, rough with stout hairs, peduncles 

 glabrous, short. Flowers very large, golden yellow. Pod curved, sometimes a 

 foot long, glabrous. A bienniaL 



Sea sands and stony places on the littoral. May-August. 



Q. corniculatum Curt. An annual hispid species. Flowers smaller, 

 brilliant red or rarely orange-red; capsule hispid, straight. Leaves profoundly 

 bipinnatifid, lyrate. 



Cultivated fields and waste places in the Var as at Six Fours, Carqueiranne, 

 etc. April-June. 



ROEMERIA DC. 



R. violacea Medic. An annual plant with yellow sap. Leaves 2-3 pin- 

 natifid, with almost linear divisions, ending in a mucro. Flowers dark violet, 

 large, solitary, shortly peduncled. Petals crinkled in the bud. Capsule linear, 

 hispid, i celled, but 2-4 valved. 



Fields and hillocks in the Var ; occasional. May, June. 



CHELIDONIUM L. 



C. majus L. Greater Celandine. Leaves 1-2 pinnate, glaucous below, 

 segments ovate, toothed, lobed, or laciniate. Stem 1-2 ft. high, brittle, hairy, 

 leafy. Juice yellow. Flowers yellow, i in. in diameter, in loose umbels. 

 Capsule readily dehiscing, valves torulose. 



Hedges, waste-places, etc. April-August. 



