PapaverArgemone. Long prickly-headedPoppy. 



PAPAVER Lin. Gen. PL Polyandria Monogynia. 



Cor. 4 petala. Cal. 2 phyllus. Capfula i-locularis, Tub ftigmate perfiftente 

 poris dehifcens. 



Rati Syn. Gen. 22. Herb^e vasculifer;e, flore tetrapetalo anomaly. 



PAPAVER Argempne capfulis clavatis hifpidis, caule foliofo multifloro. Lin. Svft. Vegetab. p. 407. 

 Spec. P/. 725. Fl. Suec. n. 466. 



PAPAVER foliis hifpidis, pinnatis, pinnis lobatis, capitulis ellipticis, hifpidis. HaJIer Hijl. n. 1063. 



PAPAVER Argemone. Scopoli Fl. Cam. n. 636. 



ARGEMONE capitulo longiore. C.Bauh. Pin, 172. Ger. emac. 273. Park. 370. 



Px^PAVER laciniato folio, capitulo hifpido longiore. Rati Syn. p. 308. Long rough-headed baftard 

 Poppy. Hud/on. Fl. Angl. ed. 2. p. 230. Lightfoot Fl. Scot. p. 279. 



RADIX annua, fimplex, fibrofa. $ ROOT annual, fimple, and fibrous. 



CAULIS: ubi laete crefcit caules profert plures, pedales, | STALK: where the plant grows luxuriantly, it puts 

 et ultra, foliofos, adfcendentes, hirfutos, inter | forth feveral leafy, hairy ftalks, a foot or more 



fegetes vero caule folitario ere&o faepius gaudet. f in height, and bending upwards, but among 



I corn it is moil commonly found with a fingle 



% upright ftem. 



FOLIA radicalia plurima, longe petiolata, pinnata, | LEAVES next the root numerous, landing on long 

 pinnis incifo-dentatis, dentibus mucronatis, y foot-flalks, pinnated, the pinna: deeply in- 



caulina tripartita, pinnatifida, omnibus pilofis, | dented, the teeth terminating in a fhort point, 



fuperne faturate viridibus, nitidis, inferne pal- | thofe of the ftalk deeply divided into three 



lidioribus. t fegments which are pinnatifid, all the leaves 



I are hairy, on the upper fide of a deep green 



¥ colour, and mining, on the underfide paler. 



PEDUNCULI pilofi, pilis adpreflis. | FLOWER- STALKS hairy, hairs preffed clofe to the 



I ftalk. 



CALYX: Perianthium diphyllum, feu triphyllum, | CALYX: a Perianthium compofed of two or three 

 deciduum, papillofo-hifpidum. | leaves, deciduous, hifpid, the hairs iffuing 



I from fmall papillae or prominent points. 



COROLLA: Petala quatuor, miniata, fubere&a, re- | COROLLA: four Petals, of a fcarlet colour, nearly 

 motiufcula, obverfe ovata, apice crenulata, bafi $ upright, a little diftant from e; \ other, in- 



nigricantia, maxime caduca, jig. 1. f verfely ovate, finely notched at top, and 



I blackifh at the bafe, Jig. 1. 



STAMINA: Filament a viginti circiter, purpurea, | STAMINA: about twenty Filaments, of a purple 



plana, apice dilatata, nitida. Anthers bre- | colour, flat, dilated at top, and mining. An- 



viffime pedicellatas, biloculares. Pollen cae- ? ther^ {landing each on a very fhort foot-ftalk, 



rulefcens, Jig. 2. auct.y%. 3. | having two cavities. Pollen blueifh, fig. 2. 



one of the ftamina magnified, fig. 3. 



* pofed of 3 to 5 villous rays, of a bluifh colour, 



PERICARPIUM : Capsula oblonga, clavata, fubangu- | SEED-VESSEL: an oblong, club-fhaped Capsule, 

 lofa, hifpida, inferne nudiufcula, purpurafcens, t fomewhat angular, hifpid, below for the moft 



fig, r. I part naked, of a purplifh colour, fig. 5. 



SEM1NA plurima, minuta, nigricantia, fig. 6, 7. ^ SEEDS numerous, minute, and blackifh, 'Jig, 6, 7. 



This fpecies of Poppy is difYmguifhed by a variety of particulars befides its long prickly heads, which, though 

 not abfolutely neceffary to difcriminate the fpecies, are well worthy of our attention. The divifions of the leaves 

 are finer than in any of the other poppies. The petals in general grow more upright ; and, inftead of having the 

 edges falling over each other, are ufually a little diftant. The ftamina are very remarkable, having the filaments 

 uncommonly dilated towards the top, not at the bafe, as Haller afferts ; and the Anthers ftand on a very flender 

 foot-ftalk placed on the top of each filament. 



Like moil of the other poppies it ufually grows in corn fields, and is not very unfrequent in the neighbourhood 

 of London. About the beginning of June it bloflbms in Batterfea Fields ; but is often overlooked from the extreme 

 fugacity of its petals, which rarely continue expanded more than fix hours. 



