Papaver.] PAPAVERACEiE. 21 



intermediate space wrinkled but not furrowed (as is usually the case in the next 

 species, where these ribs are far less conspicuous), beset as in that with similar 

 curved bristles but less copiously. Seeds numerous, kidney-shaped, leaden gray 

 or ash-coloured, sometimes pale red and apparently abortive, beautifully sculp- 

 tured with longitudinal ridges and deep intermediate depressions. 



The smallest of our Poppies, and readily known by its four narrow bright scar- 

 let petals with dark purple claws, and the fine blue of its anthers. 



2. P. hybridum, L. Round Prickly-headed Poppy. Mongrel 

 Poppy. " Capsule subglobose hispid with spreading bristles, fila- 

 ments dilated upwards, stem leafy, leaves bipinnatifid." — Br. Fl. 

 p. 16. E. B. t. 43. (The figure in E. Bot. is a very indifferent 

 representation of our plant). 



In dry sandy and especially chalky cornfields, frequent. Fl. May — July. 0. 



E. Med. — At the E. end of Brading. At Bonchurch, Ventnor, St. Lawrence, 

 and other parts of Undercliff. Cornfields above Sandown bay, occasionally. 



W. Med. — Frequent about Yarmouth, and in cornfields near Wellow with P. 

 Argemone and Bupleurum rotundifolium in 1840. Abundantly in 1842 along 

 the edge of a cornfield juet above Calbourn New Barn. Carisbrook common 

 field, George Kirkpatrick, Esq. 



Root whitish, tapering, nearly or quite simple. Stems several or in small spe- 

 cimens solitary, from 6 to 18 inches high, somewhat lax, erect, ascending or 

 spreading, irregularly branched, round, solid, rigid and leafy, har.sh to the touch 

 from minute scabrous points, and covered with white hairs, which on the stem 

 itself are long, soft and spreading ; on the peduncles and higher branches shorter, 

 close-pressed and rigid. Leaves rough and almost hoary with pale hispid pubes- 

 cence ; the radical ones and those towards the base of the stem on long chan- 

 nelled petioles ; those higher up sessile ; all doubly and deeply pinnato-pinnatifid, 

 the segments flat, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate or ovate, bluntish, tipped with a 

 bristle, their margins revolute and edged with distant setaceous hairs, which on 

 the midrib beneath are longer and close-pressed. The basal pair of primary seg- 

 ments in the stem-leaves is usually remote from the rest and occupying the place 

 of stipules. Peduncles axillary and terminal, single-flowered, very long, covered 

 with stiff close-pressed hairs, lax and drooping in flower, afterwards rigid and 

 erect. Flowers small, intermediate in size between the last and the following spe- 

 cies, extremely fugacious, expanding early in the day, and falling long before 

 evening. Calyx very hispid, with long hairs curving upwards and seated on pale 

 warty tubercles. Petals obovato-rotundate, in colour between a pale scarlet and 

 rose-red, with a purple-black and shining spot on the claws, rumpled, much 

 notched along the margin, spreading horizontally. Stamens erect, their filaments 

 dilated upwards and flattened, dark purple ; anthers pale blue ; pollen white. 

 Stigma small, 6- or 7-rayed. Capsule mostly subglobose, more or less elongated, 

 and approaching that of P. Argemone in form, but the ribs are never so strongly 

 marked ; setoso-hispid like it, but the bristles are usually thicker set and more 

 curved, and the intercostal faces are obscurely furrowed. Seeds kidney-shaped, 

 shorter and rounder than in the last, blackish, yellowish or reddish brown ; far less 

 beautiful, covered only with a coarse sculpture of angular cells without longitudi- 

 nal ridges. 



This species has by some been erroneously thought a hybrid between the fore- 

 going and following species, but the very slight resemblance it bears to the latter, 

 its exclusively matutinal hours of blossoming, the difierent colour of the flowers 

 from those of either of the other two, and its more limited geographical range in 

 comparison with theirs, are conclusive against the truth of such an opinion. 



