106 3. PAPAVERACE^E. 



43. Papaver soMNiFERUMy Linn. 



Area (1 2 3 4 5 * ^8 * 10 11 ^ 13 * 15 16). 



Alien. This exotic has been allowed place in the lists of 

 British plants from the time of Ray, though mostly marked 

 with the foreigner's brand. The seeds will retain their 

 power of vegetation, many years, bmied in the groimd ; and 

 hence it frequently occurs, for a season or two, on soil 

 thrown out of deep diggings, about canals, railways, &c. It 

 is, too, more or less a weed in most old gardens, and the 

 seeds are carried with garden refrise to the banks of rivers, 

 road-sides, the sea shore, &c. But there can be no ques- 

 tion about its originally exotic origin ; and I know not that 

 it can be fau-ly considered established as the permanent 

 occupant of any locality m Britain. 



Papaver nudicaule, Linn. 



Incognita. Under a somwhat hasty confidence in the 

 accm-acy and scientific caution of a botanist, against all na- 

 tm-al probability, this arctic species was figm-ed in English 

 Botany, and duly described in the British Flora, as a true 

 native of the south-west of Ireland. It is now discarded 

 by general consent. 



44. Meconopsis cambrica, Vig. 



Area 1 * * * * 6 7 * * 10 * 12 (13 14 15). -^ ^■^- //V.'/, V^- 

 South limit in Devon and Somerset. Ct^^tv^ 

 North limit in Cumberland and Yorkshire. 



