PAPAVERACE®. 87 
The silken tissue of the petals has been said by Theocritus to prove an index 
to the state of a lover's affections ; thus :— 
“ By a prophetic Poppy-leaf I found 
Your changed affection, for it gave no sound 
Though in my hand struck hollow as it lay, 
But quickly wither’d, like your love, away.” 
SPECIES I.—PAPAVER RHQGAS. Zinn 
Pirate LVIII.* 
Leaves pinnatifid or bipinnatifid, none of them amplexicaul. 
Outer pair of petals considerably broader than long, inner pair with 
the length and breadth about equal. Filaments not dilated towards 
the tip, as long as the pistil. Capsule smooth, very little longer than 
broad, cylindrical, with a hemispherical base, distinctly stipitate. 
Stigmatic disk slightly conical, ultimately nearly flat, with short 
rhomboidal lobes overlapping each other. Stigmatic rays 8 to 12, 
slender, not extending quite to the apices of the lobes. 
Var. a, vulgaris. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. III. Pap. Tab. XV. Fig. 4479. 
Stems and peduncles hispid, with spreading hairs. 
Var. (, strigosum. Bonningh. 
P. intermedium, “ Becker,” Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ et Helv. Vol. III. Pap. Tab. XVI. 
Fig. 4478. 
Stem hispid, with spreading hairs. Peduncles strigose, with 
adpressed hairs. 
Cornfields, cultivated ground, and road-sides. A common weed 
throughout the whole of England and the South of Scotland, where 
Aberdeenshire is probably its northern limit ; but it is certainly of 
rare occurrence beyond the Tay. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer and Autumn. 
Stem erect, 1 to 3 feet high, branched. Root leaves narrowly 
oblanceolate ; stem leaves lanceolate or oblong, all sessile, deeply 
pinnatifid, with ascending lobes, and again toothed, lobes and seg- 
* The Plate is E. B. 645, with capsule and disk added by Mr. J. E. Sowerby. 
