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PAPAVER RHCEAS. 



Red or Com Poppy. 



Class, &c. See White Poppy (Papaver somniferum). 



Spec. Char. Capsules glabrous, sub-globose. Stem 

 many flowered, bristly ; the hairs spreading, as are 

 those of the flower-stalk. Leaves pinnatifid. 



SYNONYMES. 

 Greek .... ^oiat . 



( Papaver erraticum majus. Bauh.Pin. VJ\. 



I Papaver Rhoeas. Ger. Em. 371. Park. Theatr. 366. 

 Latin -i Papaver erraticum. Dod. Pempt. 444. Cam. Epit. 371. 



I Papaver Rhceas. Lin. 8p. PI. 726. Eng. Fl. iii. p. 1 1 . 



L Eng. Bot. t. 645. 



French .... Coquelicot ; Ponceau ; Pavot rouge. 



Italian .... Papavero salvatico ; Papavero erratico ; Rosolaccio. 



Spanish. . . . Adormidera silvestre ; Amapola ; Ababa. 



Portuguese. Papoileira. 



~ i Wilder Mohn ; Rother Mohn ; Feld Mohn ; Klatschrose ; 



German . . . < 



I Klapper-rose. 



Dutch .... Klaproozen ; Koornroozen ; Koornheul ; Kankerbloemen. 



Danish .... Klapperose. 



Swedish . . . Kornros. 



Polish Maczek. 



Description. — The root is annual, slender, nearly simple, 

 whitish, and furnished with a few fibres. The stem is erect, 

 branched, pale green, from one to two feet high, and clothed 

 as well as the flower-stalks, with horizontally spreading bristly 

 hairs. The leaves are alternate, sessile, pinnatifid, with 

 incised or deeply serrated, lanceolate segments, covered with 

 short hairs. The flowers are large, terminal, showy, drooping 

 previous to expansion. The calyx is composed of two ovate, 



