22 PAPAVERACE^. [Papavcr. 



§§ Capsules smooth. 



3. P. dubmm, L. Long Smooth-headed Poppy. " Capsule gla- 

 brous oblong, crenatures of stigma distinct, filaments subulate, 

 stem hairy, bristles of the flower-stalks appressed, leaves once or 

 twice pinnatifid sessile." — Br. Fl. p. 16. E. B. t. 644. 



In cornfields and other cuUifated ground, on wall-tops, waste places and by- 

 waysides, frequent, though less abundant with us than the following. Fl. May — 

 July. ©. 



In pastures in various parts of the Island. 



E. Med. — Shanklin Chine. Cornfields above Sandown. 



W. Med. — About Carisbrook castle. 



Capsules whitish brown, quite glabrous, ovoid-oblong or subclavate, about 9 or 

 10 lines in length, strongly ribbed, especially near the base, the intercostal spaces 

 venosely rugose, the truncate summit rather narrower than the plane 7 — 10 

 (mostly 8 or 9) rayed stigma. In small starved specimens the stigma is 6, 5 or 

 even 4-rayed ; in the latter case the germen and capsule are quadrangular. Seeds 

 numerous, subdiaphanous, in size, colour, shape and sculpture scarcely iu the 

 least differing from those of P. Rhoeas. 



4. P. Rhoeas, L. Common Red Poppy or Corn Rose. Vect. 

 Red-iveed. " Capsule glabrous nearly globose, crenatures of the 

 stigmas overlapping each other at the margin, filaments subulate, 

 stem bristly, leaves once or twice pinnatifid sessile."- — Br. Fl. p. 

 16. E. B. t. 645. 



In cultivated land, amongst corn, clover, &c., abundantly. Fl. May — Octo- 

 ber. ©. 



A single specimen with the flower pure white found in a cornfield above San- 

 down bay, July, 1842; (a beautiful variety). 



/3. intermedia. Stem more branched near the root, hairs fewer, those on the 

 peduncles appressed (except immediately beneath the flower) ; capsules rather less 

 globose. Dr. Bell-Salter. An P. intermedium. Beck, Fl. der Gegendum Frank- 

 fort am Main, i. p. 836, and Reichenh. Iconog. ? 



A fleshy herb, of a pale glaucous green and slightly milky. Root whitish, 

 tapering, hard and woody in the centre, simple or a little branched. Stems 

 numerous, erect or ascending at the base, about 2 feet high, much branched, 

 round, solid, leafy, hispid with white or purplish, scattered, spreading, simple 

 and almost pungent hairs, seated on tubercular bases. Leaves alternate or partly 

 opposite, rough on both sides with erect bristly hairs like those on the stem ; root- 

 and lower stem-leaves on channelled petioles, oblong, pinnatifid, the superior pin- 

 nae often confluent, and then mostly forming a broadish ovate or oblong, variously 

 incised or inciso-serrate terminal lobe ; upper stem-leaves more or less completely 

 sessile, deeply and remotely pinnatifid, the segments mostly lanceolate, linear-lan- 

 ceolate or tooth-like, callous, obtuse, bristle-tipped, variously and acutely cut or 

 dentate, the margins a little reflexed, their terminal lobes narrow and often nearly 

 entire. Peduncles axillary and terminal, very long, single-flowered, more or less 

 flexuose, erect and rigid in blossom and seed, lax and drooping at the sumihit 

 when in bud, extremely rough and harsh with bristly and (except in var. ^) 

 spreading purplish hairs. Bracts none. Flowers very large, from 2J to 4 inches 

 iu diameter, remaining expanded throughout the day. Sepals deciduous, ovate, 

 concave, with narrow diaphanous margins, hispid with similar hairs to those on 

 the stem, but curved upwards and springing from much larger tubercles. Petals 

 bright scarlet of various shades of intensity, in dry sandy fields sometimes as pale 

 as in the foregoing, rather unequal, the two exterior and larger nearly semicircu- 

 lar, the two inner and smaller subcuneato-rotundate ; all spreading, undulated 

 and rumpled, generally with a shining purplish black spot on their claws. 



