POLYANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Papaver. 9 



Nat. Ord. see n. 263. 



Cal. inferior, of 2 ovate, concave, obtuse, equal, deciduous 

 leaves. Pet. 4, roundish, crumpled, spreading, large; 

 narrowest at the base ; 2 opposite ones smallest. Filam. 

 very numerous, capillary, much shorter than the corolla. 

 Anth. terminal, erect, somewhat stalked, oblong, obtuse, 

 compressed. Germ, roundish or oblong, large. Style 

 none. Stigma peltate, radiated, downy, permanent. 

 Caps, ovate, or obovate-oblong, coriaceous, large, of one 

 cell, incompletely separated into a greater or less num- 

 ber of marginal cells, answering to the number of rays 

 in the stigma, between which the capsule bursts by as 

 many valvular openings, under the stigma, which is more 

 or less elevated by the incomplete partitions. Seeds kid- 

 ney-shaped, numei'ous, minute, dotted, attached to the 

 partitions. 



Annual or perennial herbs, with a fetid, milky, narcotic, 

 juice. Stems round. Leaves pinnatifid and cut. Stalks 

 lateral or terminal, long, single-flowered. FL large, va- 

 rious in colour, mostly scarlet or yellow, rarely white or 

 purplish; drooping in the bud, fugacious. Capsule bristly 

 or smooth. 



* Capsules bristly. 



1. P. hyhrkium. Round- rough -headed Poppy. 



Capsule nearly globular, furrowed, bristly. Calyx hairy. 

 Stem leafy, many-flowered. Leaves doubly pinnatifid. 



P. hybritlum. Linn. Sp. PI. 725. Willd. v. 2. 1 144. Fl. Br. 565. 



Engl. Bot. v.l.t. 43. DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 73. 

 P. laciniato folio, capitulo hispido rotundiore. Ra'd Syn. 308. 

 Argemone capitulo torulo. Get. Em .373./. 

 A. capitulo breviore hispido. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 396./. 

 A. capitulo torulis canulato. Lob. Ic. 276. /. 

 A. minor, capitulis brevioribus. Dalech. Hist. 440./. 



In sandy or chalky fields, but rare. 



At Wells, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. Nearly half a mile out of St. Bene- 

 dict's gates, Norwich. Mr. Pitchford. About Durham. Mr. 

 Robson. At Daient, near Dartford. Mr. Lewin. 



Annual. July. 



Root small and tapering. Herb 12 or 18 inches high, rough with 

 minute bristles. Leaves deep green, with numerous, decurrent, 

 narrow, linear-lanceolate, obscurely revolute segments, each 

 tipped with a bristle. Fl. rather small, deep scarlet or crimson, 

 short-lived J often violet at the base. PoZZere bright blue. Stig- 

 via with from 5 to 8 rays, a little raised above the capsule, even 



