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THE LADIES' FLOWER-GARDEN 
2.-ARGEM0NE OCHROLEUCA Swt. THE CREAM-COLOURED PRICKLY POPPY. 
Enoraving.— Brit. Fl. Card. t. 242. 
Specific Character. — Leaves profoundly sinuated or pinnatifid, 
glaucescent ; nerves with prickly bristles ; flowera solitary ; stamens 
few; capsules oblong, deeply 5 — 6-furrowed, covered with somewhat re. 
flexed prickles; stigmas 5 — 6, distinct, spreading, purple. — (G. Don.) 
Description, Histoey, &c.— This species differs from the common kind in having large cream-coloured 
flowers, a prickly stem, and narrower leaves, which, instead of being blotched vyith white, are only marked with 
a paler green. The valves of the capsule are also more deeply marked. The plant grows from two feet to four 
feet high ; and from the vigour of its growth and the large size of its flowers, it is very ornamental. It was 
introduced from Mexico in 1827, by the late Mr. Barclay, of Bury Hill ; and as it seeds abundantly, it is 
common in the nurseries and seed-shops. It may be sown in the open border in April or May, when it will come 
into blossom in August, and will continue flowering till October ; but if treated as a tender annual, as will be 
directed in a future page for Hunnemania, it will come into blossom much sooner, and will produce finer flowers. 
The seeds are brown, glossy, rugged, and vringed on the side that they are attached to the capsule. 
3.— ARGEMONE GRANDIFLORA Swt. THE LARGE-FLOWERED PRICKLY POPPY. 
Enoravino. . — Brit. PI. Gard. t. 226. I Nerves unarmed. Flowers panicled, polyandrous. Calyx smooth. 
Specific Character.— Leaves sinuated, smooth, spiny-toothed. I Capsules bluntly quadrangular, almost unarmed. — (G. Don.') 
Description, &c. — ^This is by far the handsomest of the genus. The flowers are of a pure white, and very 
large, being frequently above four inches across when fully expanded ; thqy are also produced in clusters, which 
gives the plant a splendid appearance when in flower. The stem, which is brown, tinged with purple, is smooth, 
strong, and branching, and the plant generally grows about four feet high. Tlie leaves are large, not blotched, 
and only spiny at the margins. This very handsome plant is, properly speaking, a perennial, but if sovra in 
autumn, and treated as we shall direct for the Hunnemania, it may be planted out in May, and will form a most 
splendid object all summer. It is a native of Mexico, and seeds of it were sent to Mr. Barclay from that 
coimtry, at the same time that he received the seeds of Argemone ochroleuca. The seeds of both species were 
sowed in spring on a hot-bed, and Argemone grandiflora flowered at Bury Hill the follovring October. Seeds 
may now be procured in most of the London seed-shops. 
GENUS III. 
GLAUCIUM Tourn. THE HORNED POPPY. 
Lin. Syst. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gnncaic Character. — Petals four. Stamens indefinite. Stigma bilamellate. Capsules elongated, two-valved smd two-celled from the 
cellular dissepiment. Seed without a glandular crest. — (G. Dan.) 
Description, &o. — ^These very curious plants have large showy flowers and remarkably long horn-like pods, 
whence the English name of homed poppy. They are natives of the sea-coast, and the leaves are of the 
