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P. hybridum. — In tliis species also the capsule is 

 globular, but it is covered with numerous, spreading 

 bristles. The filaments of the stamens are dilated 

 from the middle upwards. It is a fiative of Central 

 and Southern Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia 

 to North India, and of England except the extreme 

 north. 



P. dubium. — The capsule in this species is oblong, 

 glabrous, and narrowed at the base. Its range is rather 

 more northerly than that of the last species. 



P. Argemone has a club-shaped capsule. The 

 filaments of the stamens are dilated from the middle 

 upwards, as in P. hybridum. 

 Its geographical range is 

 nearly the same as that of 

 P. hybridum and Rhoeas. 

 When ripe the valves detach 

 themselves from the top of 

 the fruit-stalk. 



GlAUCIUiM 



G. luteum (Horned 

 Poppy).- — So called from its 

 long curved pods, which are 

 10-12 inches long. The 

 flower lasts two days. The 

 seeds are brown, with ridges 

 enclosing more or less square 

 areas. It is found on sandy 

 sea - shores all round the 

 Mediterranean and the 

 Atlantic shores as far as j.jg_ 42, 

 Scandinavia, and is com- 

 mon round our shores, but 

 less so in Scotland. 



Fig. 42 represents a seedling of a nearly allied 

 species, and shows the gradual development from the 

 simple filiform cotyledons to the comparatively complex 

 leaves. 



Glaucium corniculatmn. Seed- 

 ling. Nat. size. The numbers indi- 

 cate successive leaves following the 

 cotyledons (c). 



