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varieties which he recognises. Kuntze's later proposal, that the name Glaucium, 

 owing to its similarity to the name Glome (Primulaceae), must give place to another, 

 is mere pedantic trifling with a subject that has some claim to serious treatment, 



1. Glaucium elegans Fisch. 8f Mey. Lid. 8 em. Hort. Petrop. i. 

 29(1835); glabrescent, radical leaves obovate-oblong pinnatifid, lobes 

 shortly ovate crecately toothed ; cauline cordate-amplexicaul broadly 

 ovate obtusely toothed ; sepals papillose, petals small orange with red 

 eye ; capsule slender, torulose, often contorted, sparingly setose with 

 spreading prickles, seeds oblong-cylindric curved. H. f. 8r T., Flor. Ind. 

 255 (1855) ; Boiss. Flor. Orient, i. 120 (1867). G. pumilum Boiss. Ann. 

 Sc. Nat. ser. ii. xvi. 374 (1841). G. squamigerum Bunge, Bel. Bot. 

 Lehm. J 92 (1847) ; Boiss. $• Buhse, Aufzahl flS60) ; nee Ear. 8r Kir. 



North-West Frontier: Kohat, at Mirkkworli, Brummond! 

 Distrib. Afghanistan, Turkestan, and N. Persia to Armenia. 



Stems 1 ft. or higher, slender much branched, radical leaves If— 2 in., sepals 

 £ in. long, buds \ in diam. ; flowers 1 in. diam. ; capsule usually twisted 2-3 in. long, 

 narrowed (subtorulose) between the seeds. 



2. Glaucium squamigerum Kar. fy Kir. Bull. Soc. Mosc. xv. 141 

 (1842) ; glabrescent, radical leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, lobes ovate wide 

 toothed, terminal subquadrate ; cauline cordate-amplexicaul, broadly 

 oblong acutely lobed ; sepals glabrous, petals orange-yellow ; capsule 

 straight or curved, sparsely setose ; seeds reniform deeply pitted. Rpgel 

 §' Herd. Bull. Soc. Mosc. xxxvii. 406 (1864). G. persicum Bunge, Bel. 

 Bot. Lehm 192 (1847) nee LG. G. corniculatum H. f. §• T. Flor. Ind. 

 256(1855) nee Linn. G. luteum var. fimbrillifera Trautv. Bull. Soc. 

 Mosc. xxxiii. 92(1800). G. fimbrilligerum Boiss. Flor. Orient, i. 120 

 (1867). 



North-West Himalaya : Badakshan, Giles ! N.-W. Frontier : 

 Kach, Lace / Nal, Duke! DlSTBIB. Beluchistan, Afghanistan, Turkestan, 

 Soongaria. 



Stems 1 ft. or higher, branching ; radical leaves, 2-6 in., sepals f in. long, 

 buds i in. or less in diam. ; flowers l£-2 in. diam., petals bright yellow (Aitchison) ; 

 capsule usually slightly carved, 6-S in. long ; adpressed aculeate, flattened (scale-like) 

 setae ultimately suberect. 



Glaucium elegans is perhaps one of the most distinct of the forms in this 

 troublesome genus where all the forms are somewhat variable and seem to pass 

 one into the other. G squamtgerum, on the other hand, is, so far as Afghan and 

 Beluch specimens are concerned, most like G. arabicum Fresen. from Sinai, which in 

 turn much resembles and is perhaps only a geographical form of G. corniculatum. 

 As represented in Herb. Kew, Herb. Boissier and Herb. DC, G. fimbrilligerum 

 Boiss. and Gr. squamigerum Kar. & Kir. would appear to be specifically separable 

 but a fine suite of specimens from Turkestan in Herb. Paris shows that they pass 

 into each other and that it is not possible to separate them even varietally. 



