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beneath with a yellowish hue, slightly reticulate ; lamina 26-32 

 mm. long, 6'5-H mm. wide ; petiole broad, flattened above, convex 

 on the back, 2'25-4'S mm. long. 



Stem erect, terete, ultimately shrubby ; primary internodes un- 

 developed. 



Leaves simple, cauline, alternate, exstipulate, petiolate, alter- 

 nately and ascendingly penninerved, light glaucous -green above, 

 and obscurely reticulate, paler beneath and distinctly reticulate, 

 glabrous ; petiole (in the seedling) semiterete, flattened on the 

 upper side, very slightly winged at the edges, tapering upwards 

 from a broad stout base, rather 

 succulent, with orange-coloured 

 juice. 



No. 1. Rhomboid, subacute, 

 tapering to both ends, pinnatifid, 

 with one lobe and a few coarse 

 irregular teeth on each side ; lobes 

 or teeth often traversed by two 

 or more longitudinal nerves, and 

 tipped with a glandular mucro. 



No. 2. Similar, but larger, and 

 generally more deeply cut. 



G-laucium corniculatum, Curt., 

 var. rubrum (fig. 151). 



Primary root slender, tapering, 

 colourless, almost devoid of lateral 

 rootlets in the early stage, annual 

 or biennial. 



Hypocotyl scarcely distinguish- 

 able from the root. 



Cotyledons linear, slender, soon 

 perishing. 



Stem herbaceous and developed 

 only when about to flower. 



Leaves simple, radical and cauline, alternate, exstipulate, petio- 

 late, more or less pinnatifid or pinnatisect and lobed, pilose on both 

 surfaces, especially when young, deeply glaucous above, paler 

 beneath ; petioles flattened above, convex below, pilose or woolly at 

 the margins, dilated and amplexicaul at the base. 



Nos. 1-2. Spathulate and entire, or tridentate at the apex. 



No. 3. Larger, oblong. 



No. 4. Oblong, rather coarsely and acutely serrate. 



PIG. 151. 



Glaucium corniculatum, var. rubrum 

 Nat. size. 



