90 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Sun-Srecies I.—Papaver Lecoqii. Lamotte. 
Pratt LX.* 
P. dubium, Perch. Tc. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. III. Pap. Tab. XV. Fig. 44774 
P. Lecoqii, Lamotte, in “ Mém. Académie de Clermont, 1851.” Boreau, Fl. du Centze 
de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 30? Sad. Fl. of Cambridge, Appendix, p. 300 ; and 
Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 15% 
Leaves deeply pinnatifid, with rather long, distant, acuminated 
lobes ; lobes entire, or again pinnatifid. Capsule oblong-clavate, 
narrowing downwards from about a third below the summit to the 
base. Stigmatic disk with the lobes folded down over the sides of 
the capsule. “Sap turning dark yellow (ochraceous) in the air.” 
(Bab.) 
Apparently much more local than P. Lamottei, and preferring 
a calcareous soil. Abundant about Cambridge and Saffron Walden, 
Essex ; reported from the Isle of Wight by Mr. A. G. More. The 
Rev. W. W. Newbould has seen a plant from Wiltshire, collected 
by Mr. Woodward, which he refers to the present form, and also 
examples from Hertfordshire. I possess a specimen collected by 
myself from St. Margaret’s Bay, Kent; and it is highly probable 
that it will be detected in other localities when it becomes better 
known.T 
England. Annual. Summer. 
This plant closely resembles P. Lamottei, but has the leaves 
more deeply pinnatifid, or rather the lobes are longer, and the 
undivided portion on each side of the primary midrib is narrower. 
The lobes, which are entire or again pinnatifid, are less abruptly 
acuminate than in that plant. The flowers, according to Professor 
Babington, are of a deeper scarlet, and the milk-sap becomes yellow 
when exposed to the air. The petals are deltoid, sub-orbicular, 
narrower and more attenuated at the base than in P. Lamottei, and 
the capsule is considerably shorter in proportion to its breadth, the 
attenuation commences at a greater distance from the top, and the 
base is not truly conical, but very narrowly ellipsoidal, and there 
* The drawing is from a Cambridgeshire specimen, by Mr. J. E. Sowerby. 
+ These localities give no just idea of the distribution of this plant. It is when 
the Botanist has to treat of such that he comes to appreciate the great service Mr. Hewett 
C. Watson has rendered to British Botany by the production of his “Cybele Britannica,” 
in which he has given all the known details of the distribution of British plants, and so 
pointed out the actual range of each species. Mr. Watson has not only collected records, 
but what is equally necessary, sifted them so as to distinguish those which may be relied 
on from those which are doubtful or erroneous. Almost all the information given on 
this subject in the present work has been taken from Mr. Watson’s “ Cybele.” 
