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having a style to its Stigma, and thread-like placentas. 

 Its name signifies " resemblance to a Poppy." It is 

 rare wild, but common in gardens ; and very pretty. 

 Of a pure yellow sometimes tinged with red on the 

 edge of the petals ; but all change to an orange-color 

 if dried. 



The HORNED POPPY (Glaucium) is separated into 

 another Genus, on account of its different seed-vessel, 

 also. We will give its botanical description, for it is 

 the great ornament of our sandy sea-shores, where we 

 may hope to find it, e'er very long. 



[HORNED POPPY. Glaucium. 



Sepals 2, Petals 4, Stigma, 2-lobed, sessile. Pod, long and 

 narrow, (linear) the two placentas at length connected by 

 a spongy discepiment, hence, 2-celled, 2-valved ; seeds dotted 

 without a crest. Named from the seagreen hue (glaucous) of 

 its leaves and stem. 



YELLOW HORNED POPPY. Glaucium Luteum. 



Pod, minutely tuberculated (worty pi. II. 13. t). Stem- 

 leaves (cauline leaves) embracing the Stem, (amplexicaule) 

 Stem smooth, 1 to 2 feet high, much branched. Leaves 

 rough ; flowers large, handsome. Succeeded by a pod from 

 6 to 10 inches long.] 



" There, bright as gems of fairy lore, 



Or Eastern poet's dream, 

 The Horned Poppies gild the shore, 



"With sunny gleam. 



