748 PAPAVER. [class Xin. ORDER I. 



Root small, tapering. Stem erect, slender, round, branched, leafy, 

 scattered over with white somewhat spreading bristles. Leaves alter- 

 nate, spreading, the radical ones on long slender channeled footstalks, 

 those of the stem sessile, bi-pinnate, with narrow cut segments, the 

 margins mostly rolled back, and generally smooth above, beneath 

 paler, and furnished with a few stout bristles. Flotvers solitary, ter- 

 minating the branches, small, and very fugacious. Calyx concave, 

 bristly. Petals obovate, mostly crumpled, and often jagged, of a pale 

 or dull scarlet colour, with an almost black unequal spot at the base. 

 Stamens purple, with ovate two celled anthers, {he filaments slender at 

 the base, dilated upwards, and acutely contracted into a slender point. 

 Stigma with from four to six rays. Capsule narrow, dilated upwards 

 into a club-shape, and from four to six angled, bristly, especially 

 towards the top. 



Habitat. — Corn fields in a gravelly soil; not unfrequent. 



Annual ; flowering in June. 



This is a variable plant as to size, and the greater or less bristliness 

 of its stems and leaves. Specimens are occasionally found near the 

 sea with only one flower, which is the P. maritima, of Withering, but 

 is only a starved state of the plant. 



2. P. hi/bri'dum, Linn. (Fig. 851.) Round rough-headed Poppy, 

 Stamens with the filaments dilated upwards; capsule sub-globose, 

 clothed with curved spreading bristles; stem leafy, many flowered; 

 leaves bi-pinnatifid. 



English Botany t. 43. — English Flora, vol. iii. p. 9. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 212. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 16. 



Root tapering, branched. Stem erect, more or less branched and 

 leafy, round, or obtusely angular, rough, with bristles, spreading below, 

 close pressed upwards. Leaves alternate, the lower and radical ones 

 on long slender bristly footstalks, bi-pinnatifid, of a dark green colour, 

 with linear segments, rolled back on the margins, and pointed with a 

 short bristle, paler beneath, and rougher than the upper surface. 

 Flotvers soMlar J, terminating the branches, small, of a deep scarlet or 

 crimson colour, mostly with a violet spot at the base, very fugacious. 

 Calyx with ovate concave bristly segments. Petals broadly obovate, 

 crumpled, and sometimes cut on the margins. Stamens purple, with 

 ovate anthers, the filaments dilated upwards from a slender base, and 

 terminating in an acute point. Stigmas from five to eight, slightly 

 elevated above the capsule, which is sub-globose, small, clothed with 

 stout tapering bristles, curved upwards, and somewhat spreading. 



Habitat. — Sandy and chalky fields ; not common. In Norfolk, 

 Durham, Cornwall, Kent, Essex, and Nottinghamshire. Ireland, near 

 Kilbarrick Church, and Baldoyle. 



Annual; flowering in July. 



On the Continent as with us this is not a common plant, and, like 

 the last species, is variable, in being more or less branched, and in the 



