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waste places. A weak and small plant, with few and narrow 

 leaves. Flowers small with narrow petals, scarlet- red rather than 

 crimson, often having a dark spot upon them. Capsule hairy 

 with erect bristles. Fields at North Bovey. Mount Pleasant, 

 above Exmouth Warren. Fields by the Exe, near Exeter, Fl. D. 

 (E. B. t. 643.) A. v.-vn. 



3. P. dubium (long smooth-headed P.) Waste places and 

 cornfields, rather common. Stem 1 to 2 feet high. Leaves sin- 

 gly or doubly pinnatifid, sessile, with very narrow lobes. Flowers 

 large, with broad petals, light scarlet. Fruit oblong and smooth. 

 Cornfields at Mary church. Newton. (E. B. t. 644.) A. v.-vil. 



'4, P. Rhoeas (common red P.) In waste and cultivated 

 places, cornfields. Plant erect and branched, 1 or 2 feet high, 

 whole plant rough with spreading hairs. Lower leaves large and 

 stalked, once or twice divided, with the lobes lance- shaped and 

 pointed ; upper leaves sessile, deeply cut, with serrated segments. 

 Flowers large, with broad overlapping petals, deep crimson. Cap- 

 sule round and smooth. Cornfields about Torquay, etc. (E. B. 

 t. 645.) A. vi. vii. 



GLAUCIUM. HOBNED POPPY. 



G. luteum (yellow Horned Poppy.) On sandy seashores. A 

 stout plant, with hard, spreading, smooth branches. Leaves 

 thick and fleshy ; lower ones on stalks and divided, bearing short 

 thick hairs ; upper leaves embracing the stem, wavy and smooth. 

 Flowers on short stalks, large and bright yellow, succeeded by 

 curved pods from 6 inches to a foot in length, which ar surmountede 

 by the lobes of the stigma. Meadfoot Cliffs, Torquay. Paignton. 

 (E. B. t. 8.) B. vi.-viii. 



CHELIDONIUr/I. CELANDINE. 



C. majus (common C.) On roadsides, waste places, and on 

 old walls. Plant from 1 to 2 feet high ; stems slender, branching, 

 giving out a yellow fetid juice when broken. Leaves thin and 

 delicate. Leaves pinnate ; segments ovate, coarsely lobed. Flow- 

 ers small and yellow, 5 or 6 together in an imperfect umbel ; seed- 

 vessel sticking up from the centre of the flower. Pod long, swol- 

 len in the centre and tapering at each end. Chelston. Shiphay, 

 on old walls. (E. B. t. 1581.) P. v.-vni. 



