Guide. Craig Own Pistill near Newtown : Dr. Evans, ibid. — SCOTLAND. 
Hanks of the Water of Leith, near Woodhall ; Messrs. Sommehville and 
Mauohan, in Hook. FI. Scotica. Braid Woods and Cliesh Woods: Mr. 
Arnott, ibid.— IRELAND. Rostrevor-hill, in crevices of rocks by the side 
of a stream, where it had been previously observed by Mr. John White : Mr. 
Mackay, in Catal. of PI. of Ireland. Benbulben, Sligo: E. Morphy, Esq. 
in Loudon’s Mag. of Nat. Hist. v. i. p. 438. 
Perennial. — Flowers in June, July, and August. 
Root tapering, branched, fibrous, yellowish brown on the outside, 
nearly white within. Stem upright, branched, a foot or more high, 
leafy, nearly smooth, or clothed, more or less, with scattered pro- 
jecting hairs. Root-leaves with very long petioles (leaf-stalks). 
Stem-leaves with shorter, all pinnate (winged), with nearly egg- 
shaped, pointed, lobed, and cut, somewhat decurrent, nearly smooth 
leaflets, the terminating one 3-lobed. Peduncle [flower-stalk) very 
long, slightly hairy, bearing one large, fragrant, lemon-coloured 
flower. Calyx hairy. Capsule oblong, tapering towards the base. 
Seeds very numerous, minute, kidney-shaped, and beautifully reti- 
culated or dotted. — The whole plant is tender and brittle, of a light, 
somewhat glaucous green colour, with a white milky juice. The 
large, handsome, and delicate, lemon-coloured flowers render it not 
unworthy a place in the Flower Garden, where it will thrive in a 
moist shady situation, but it will not do in an open exposed place. 
It has naturalized itself at the bottom of the Oxford Botanic Garden, 
under a wall facing nearly North East. 
The Natural Order Papavera'ce.e, to which the present plant 
belongs, is composed of dicotyledonous, herbaceous plants, or shrubs, 
with a white or yellowish milky juice, alternate, more or less divided 
leaves, and long 1-flowered peduncles. The calyx consists of 
2 deciduous sepals. The corolla is composed of 4, or a multiple 
of 4, petals, which are hypogvnous (inferior), inserted in a cruciate 
manner, and which are plaited and puckered previous to their ex- 
pansion. The stamens (fig. 1.) are hypogynous (i. e. inserted into 
the receptacle below the pistil), and are either 8, or a multiple of 4, 
but more generally they are more numerous, and, in some instances, 
inserted in 4 parcels, one of which adheres to the base of each petal. 
The anthers are bi-locular (2-celled), and innate. The ovari/ 
( germenj (fig. 2.) is solitary. The style short, or wanting, and 
terminated by as many stigmas (or lobes of the stigma) as there are 
placenta;. The fruit is 1-celled, either pod-shaped, with 2 parietal 
placentas, (Plate 51, f. 5, 6, & 7,) or capsular, with several pla- 
centae, (Plate 53, f. 3. and Plate 54, f. 3). The seeds (f. 5.) are 
numerous, each with a minute embryo in the base of a fleshy albu- 
men. — See Lindlcy's Synopsis, and Richard's Elements. 
British Genera in this Order are, 1. Papa'ver, Plate 53. — 
2. Mecono'psis, Plate 54. — 3. Glaucium. — 4. Romeria. — and 
5. Chelidonium, Plate 51. 
