PAPAVERACEA. 838 
a former period in that district. On the south coast it is frequently 
met with, and occasionally a few plants may be seen in waste ground 
to the north of Cambridge and Norfolk. 
England. Annual. Late Summer. 
Stem erect, 1 to 3 feet high, branched in the larger specimens. 
Lower leaves oblanceolate, attenuated at the base; upper leaves 
lanceolate-oblong, amplexicaul, cordate at the base; the margins 
pinnatifidly lobed, or having large teeth, the extreme margin some- 
what cartilaginous. Peduncles generally with stiff, spreading, 
scattered hairs. Sepals quite smooth, falling off before the flower 
is fully expanded, as is the case throughout the genus. Petals 4, 
overlapping each other, the two outer much broader than the inner, 
which is also a character of general occurrence. In the wild state the 
flowers are from 3 to 4 inches across, white, tinged with pale lilac, with 
a large, oblong, wedge-shaped, deep purple blotch at the base. Fila- 
ments as long as the pistil, slender below, becoming broader towards 
the top, but again contracted below the anther. Pistil globular, 
stipitate, the lobes of the stigmatic disk reflexed, the stigmatic rays 
prominent, not reaching quite to the termination of the lobes. 
Capsule globular, about 1 inch in diameter in full-sized examples, 
distinctly stipitate, the stigmatic disk spreading horizontally ; the 
lobes divided nearly half way to the centre; teeth triangular, 
leaving small openings, which allow the dark-coloured reniform 
seeds to escape. The seeds are very numerous, and are attached 
to the imperfect partitions, which reach about half way to the 
centre of the capsule. Whole plant smooth, with the exception of 
the occasional presence of hairs on the peduncle, very glaucous, the 
green colour of the plant being strongly obscured by a bluish-white 
tinge. 
In gardens this plant has red, purple, or maroon-coloured 
flowers ; but I have never seen wild specimens with petals of those 
colours. 
Sus-Srecres I.—Papaver officinale. Gmel. 
Piare LVII. (B.)* 
Reich. Ac. Fi. Germ. et Helv. Vol. III. Pap. Tab. XVII. Fig. 4481. 
Gmel. Bad. Als. Vol. II. p. 479. 
P. somniferum, var. officinale, Coss. & Germ. Fl]. des Environs de Paris, ed. ii. p. 93. 
Brebisson, FI). de la Normandie, ed. iii. p. 14. 
P. somniferum, var. macrocarpum, Coss. & Germ. Fl. des Environs de Paris, ed. i. p. 73. 
P. somniferum, var. album, D. C. Syst. Vol. II. p. 82. 
P. somniferum, Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 57. Godr. Fl. de Lorr, Vol. I. p. 34 
London Catalogue, No. 43. 
* A capsule of this species is given in Plate LVIL, from a drawing by Mr. J. E 
Sowerby. 
