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N. Ord. PAPAVERACEJI:. 

 Tribe Papavereee. 



Genus Papaver, Linn. 



19. Papaver Rhceas,* Linn., Sp. PL, ed. i, p. 507 (1753). 



Red Poppy. Corn Poppy. Corn Rose. 



Figures. Woodville, 1. 139; Hayne, vi, t. 38 ; Steph. & Ch., t. 31 ; Nees, 

 t. 406; Berg & Scb., t. 15 f; Curt., Fl. Lond., fasc. 3; Sjme, E. B., 

 i, t. 58. 



Description. An erect annual, 1 3 feet nigh, with a slender, 

 more or less branched, round, green, hispid or bristly stem, 

 the bristles stiff, spreading ; branches erect. Root vertical, 

 tapering, slightly branched. Root-leaves stalked, obovate-lanceo- 

 late in outline, deeply pinnatisect with lanceolate distant 

 segments irregularly cut into ascending lobes tipped with 

 bristles; stem-leaves sessile or amplexicaul, triangular in outline, 

 the segments narrower, bright green, hairy on both sides. 

 Flowers solitary, at the ends of the stem and branches, on long 

 stalks, hispid with stiff spreading hairs ; buds obovoid, drooping. 

 Sepals 2, articulating with the receptacle and pushed off the top 

 of the flower by the expanding petals and other organs, pale 

 green, set with spreading bristly hairs. Petals 4, large, thin, 

 satiny, brilliant red, with a dark purple spot at the base, 

 crumpled in the bud ; the two outer much wider than long, 

 falling over ; the two inner about as broad as long, concave, 

 erect ; all early caducous. Stamens numerous, hypogynous ; fila- 

 ments narrow, blackish purple ; anthers small, violet. Ovary 

 globular-topshaped, 1 -celled, with 10 or more placentae projecting 

 from the wall nearly to the centre ; stigmas about 10 14, sessile 

 on and radiating from the centre of the conical summit of the 

 ovary. Capsule shortly stalked, barely \ inch long and about I inch 

 wide, half-ovoid, truncate, perfectly smooth, faintly ribbed along 



* Rliceas, in Greek poias, the classical name of the plant. 



