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NUTTALLIA PAPAVER, 
(poppy-flowered nuttallia.) 
MONADELPHIA. POLYANDRIA. 
natural order, 
MALVACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Vide vol. v. p. 217. 
Specific Character. — Root biennial, fnsiform, white. Stem erect, branched, from a foot to two feet 
high. Branches filiform, sparingly furnished with adpressed bristly hairs. Leaves, the radical ones 
on footstalks of from four to five inches in length, five-lobed, with cuneate-oblong, blunt, lobed, 
sometimes pinnatifid segments, furnished with a few scattered, adpressed, bristly hairs; those of the 
stem on shorter stalks, more deeply divided into three or five narrow, linear, acute, mostly entire 
segments. Stipules ovate, acute, fringed, leafy. Flowers solitary. Peduncles straight, filiform, 
from three to six inches long, clothed with adpressed bristly hairs. Cahjx five-cleft, copiously 
bristly, with ovate, acuminate lobes, and furnished at the base with three linear, acute, spreading, 
bristly bracts, of about three lines in length. Petals five, broadly wedge-shaped, an inch long, 
somewhat connivent, the upper edge truncate, torn and crenate, of a rich lake, the claws short, white, 
and fringed at the border. Stamens very numerous. Filaments united into a column. Anthers 
yellow, reniform, unilocular, composed of two cup-shaped valves. Stigmas about twelve, long, 
filiform, pale purple, spreading, bearded along their upper surfoce. Ovaria about twelve, one-seeded, 
arranged closely in a circle, glabrous, notched exteriorly. — Sweet's British Flower- Garden, vol. iii. 
p. 279. 
Another and somewhat finer species of this interesting genus was figured in the 
last volume of this work, under the name of N. grandtjiora ; in preparing the 
description of which, we indulged in a few remarks laudatory of its generally 
ornamental character. These may now be enlisted in favour of our present plant ; 
for, though its flowers are not so large, and, by consequence, less showy, it has a 
beauty and elegance peculiarly its own ; and we cannot but lament the little esteem 
in which both it and the other species referred to appear to be held. Indeed, we 
may extend our regret to almost all the newer kinds of herbaceous plants, which 
now but rarely find their way into any collections except those of the more zealous 
cultivators, or such amateurs as regard them with especial complacency. 
The immediate subject of present notice has been known in Britain nearly 
six years ; having been imported from Louisiana, in the United States, 
about 1833. Being a half-hardy plant, it is not often seen in a high state of 
