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PAPAVERACEAE. 

 3. Papaver dubium L. 



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Long Smooth-fruited 

 Poppy. (Fig. 1660.) 



Papaver dubium 1,. Sp. PI. 1196. 1753. 



Slender, branching, i-2 high, hirsute with spreading 

 hairs. Lower leaves petioled, 4 / -6 / long, the upper 

 smaller, nearly sessile, all deeply pinnately divided; lobes 

 oblong, pinnatifid, cleft or sometimes entire; flowers 2' 

 broad, scarlet, sometimes darker in the centre; filaments 

 not dilated; capsule oblong, glabrous, 8 // -io // long, 

 narrowed below; stigmatic rays 6-10. 



Iti waste and cultivated grounds, Pennsylvania to Virginia 

 and southward. Also in ballast about the seaports. Adven- 

 tive from Europe. Summer. 



4. Papaver Argemdne L. Pale or Long 

 Rough-fruited Poppy. (Fig. 1661.) 



Papaver Argemone L. Sp. PI. 506. 1753. 



Slender, hirsute, or nearly glabrous, i-2 high, 

 branching. Leaves all but the upper petioled, lan- 

 ceolate in outline, pinnately divided, the divisions 

 pinnatifid and toothed; flowers I'-a' broad, pale 

 red, often with a darker centre; filaments not 

 dilated; capsule oblong, 8"-io" long, narrowed at 

 the base, bristly-hairy. 



Waste grounds, Philadelphia, and in ballast about 

 the seaports. Fugitive from Europe. Summer. Old 

 name Wind-rose. 



5. Papaver alpinum L. Arctic 

 Poppy. (Fig. 1662.) 



Papaver alpinum L. Sp. PI. 507. 1753. 

 Palaver nudicaule L. Sp. PI. 507. 1753. 



Perennial, more or less hirsute. Leaves all 

 basal, pinnately lobed or cleft, the lobes linear- 

 oblong, acute or obtuse; scape erect, slender, 

 2 / -i2 / tall, much exceeding the leaves; flower 

 solitary, 1'-$' broad, yellow or red; filaments 

 filiform; capsule narrowly obovoid, 5"-8" 

 high, about 4" in greatest diameter, densely 

 beset with erect bristly hairs. 



Greenland and Labrador to Alaska and British 

 Columbia. Also in Europe and Asia. Summer. 



