PAPAVEPACE2E. 



109 



wall of the fruit in those species which have heen erected into the 

 genus Calomecon? and their flowers are often ternary in our gardens. 



Papaver somniferum (album'). 



Fig. 117. 

 Diagram. 



Fig. 118. 

 Long. sect, of fruit. 



These, like the rest of the Poppies, are annual or perennial herbs, 

 glaucous and glabrous, or bristling with hairs of varying coarseness, 

 containing white milk}- juice, possessing alternate exstipulate leaves 

 that are almost always lobed or dissected. The flowers are nearly 

 always solitary, on a long terminal or leaf-opposed peduncle, the 

 top of which droops before the expansion of the flower. 2 There 

 are some fifteen species 3 of this genus, mostly natives of the 



1 StACH, Suit, a Bujfon, vii. 7. P. oyientale 

 and bracteatuni are our cultivated representatives 

 of this section. 



2 White, yellow, or violet. 



3 Jacq., Ft. Ausir., t. 83. — Sibth., Ft. 

 GrcBc, t, 419, 492.— Lindl., Coll., t. 23.— 



