Glaucium Corniculatum. Red Horned-Poppy. 
CHELIDONIUM. Linn. Gen. PI. Polyandria MonoGynia. 
Cor. 4-petala. Cal. 2-phylIus. Siliqua l-locularis, linearis. 
Ran Syn. Gen. 22. Herba; vafculifera; flore tetrapetalo anomalce. 
CHELIDONIUM corniculatum pedunculis unifloris, foliis feflilibus pinnatifidis, caule hifpido Linn 
Syjl. Vcg, ed 24. Murr. p. 489. Sp, PI. el 3 ,p. 724. Huif. Fl.Angl. Id. 2 ,’p. 229. 
GLAUCIUM hirfutum flore phceniceo. 'Teum. Injl. 254. 
PAPAVER corniculatum phceniceum hirfutum. Bauh. Pin. 171. 
PAPAVER corniculatum rubrum. Bod. Pempt. 449. 
PAPAVER cornutum phceniceo flore. Cluf. Rift. 2. p. xci. 
PAPAVER cornutum flore rubro . Ger. Heri, p, 294. f 2. cmac. 367. f 2. Red-horned Poppey. 
all ° M' 3 > In Ger. Herb. 7 
RADIX annua;, fufiformis, parum fibrofa, flavef- 
cens. 
CAULIS pedalis ad fefquipedalem, ereHiufculus, 
teres, leviter fulcatus, pilis longis diftantibus 
hifpidus, pallide virens, ramolus, rami cauli 
fimiles, divaricato-patuli. 
FOLIA candicantia, radicaha in orbem polita, erec- 
tiufcula, petiolata, Ca;tera feflilia, femiam- 
plexantia, alterna, remota, finuato-pinna- 
tiflda, utrinque pilis uti caulis hifpida; 
lacinia; m raaicalibus alterna; ; extimze con- 
fluentes, in fuperioribus caulinis oppofita;, 
dentata;, dentibus obtuliufculis, mucronatis, 
nunc remotis, nunc approximatis, ad apices 
plerumque ternis. 
FLORES folitarii, magni, rubro-crocei, erefti, caduci. 
PEDUNCULI terminales, foliis oppofiti, breves, ad 
apices dilatati, cauli fimiles. 
CALYX: Perianthium pedunculo brevius, diphyl- 
lum, hirfutiflimum, foliolis ovato-oblongis. 
concavis, caducis. 
COROLLA: Petala 4, fubrotunda, injequalia, bafi 
anguftiora, plana, margine erofo-crenata, ad 
bafin macula oblonga nigra notata* fig. 1. 
STAMINA: Filamenta 15 circiter, planiufcula, 
corolla breviora : Anther.e oblonga;, ob- 
tufie, comprelfze, ere&a;, didyma;, pallide 
aurantiaca;, Jig. 2. 
PISTILLUM : Germen cyIindraceum,fericeo-tomen- 
tofum, longitudine flaminum; Stylus nullus; 
Stigma capitatum, craffum, bifidum, viride, 
3 - 
PERICARPIUM : Siliqua cylindracea, ftritta, fub- 
‘comprefla, uncias circiter 8 longa, pilis 
appreflis fcabriufcula, ftigmate bilabiato 
terminata, bivalvis. 
SEMINA plurima, nigricantia, fubreniformia, pulchre 
reticulata, dilfepimento fpongiofo nidulantia. 
ROOT annual, fpindle-fhaped, flightly fibrous, yel- 
lowilh. 
STALK a foot or a foot and a half in height, 
fomewhat upright, round, flightly grooved’ 
covered with long diftant hairs,' of a pale 
green colour, branched, branches like the 
ftalk, fpreading widely. 
LEAVES whitifh, thole next the root placed cir- 
cularly, fomewhat upright. Handing on foot- 
ftalks, the reft feflile, half embracing the 
ftalk, alternate, remote, finuated and pin- 
natifid, covered on both fides with hairs as 
on the ftalk, the fegments in the root-leaves 
alternate, the outermoft ones confluent, in 
the upper ftalk leaves oppofite, toothed, 
teeth fomewhat obtufe, terminating in a fhort 
point, fometimes remote, fometimes near each 
other, the tops having ufually three. 
FLOWERS growing fingly, large, bright red, inclining 
to orange, upright, quickly falling. 
FLOWER-STALKS terminal, oppofite the leaves, 
fhort, dilated at top, like the ftalk. 
CALYX: a Perianthium fhorter than, the flower- 
ftalk, two leaved, very hairy, leaves ovato- 
' oblong, quickly falling. 
COROLLA: 4 Petals, roundifh, unequal in fize, 
narrower at the bafe, the edge notched or 
knawed, the bafe marked with an oblono- 
black fpot, fig. 3. 
STAMINA: about fifteen Filaments, a little flat- 
tened, fhorter than the corolla; Anthers 
oblong, obtufe, flattened, ereft, double, of 
a pale orange colour. Jig. 2. 
PISTILLUM: Germen cylindrical, covered with a 
filky down, length of the ftamina ; Style 
none; Stigma forming a head, thick, bifid, 
and green. Jig. 3. 
SEED-VESSEL: acyhndricalPoD,ftraight, fomewhat 
flattened, about 8 inches long, rouo-hifh, 
with hairs prefled to it, terminated by the 
two-lip’d ftigma, having two valves. 
SEEDS numerous, blackilh, fomewhat kidney-fhaped, 
beautifully reticulated, neftling in the lpongv 
receptacle. 
Moft of the old Botanifts regarded the Horned-Poppy as a Papaver: Tournefort made it a diftinft genus 
by the name of Glaucium: Linn. «us united it with the Chelidonium, with which, in our humble opinion it 
has lefs affinity than with Papaver; why he fhould not have followed Tournefort in this inftance we fee'no 
good reafon ; furely the ftruHure of the feed-veflel juftifies the great founder of genera, in feparatino- it from 
the other two ; fo have thought the moft celebrated fyftematic Botanifts of modern times ; in particular 
Haller, Adanson, Jussieu, and Scopoli; the latter obferves, that if the fruit is not to be attended to in 
forming the generic charafter, neither Ihould the Poppy be feparated from the Celandine. 
This ornamental fpecies, diftinguilhed by the colour of its flowers, its general roughnefs, and place of 
growth, and fince Ray’s time difeovered by Mr. Stillingfleet in the fiandy corn-fields of fome parts 
of Norfolk, is a well-known european plant, growing wild in corn-fields, by road fides, in Spain, France and 
Germany ; it flowers in June and July, and ripens its feed in Auguft. Clusius obferves, that as the plant 
grows old it becomes fmoother, and a fmooth variety of it is mentioned by C. Bauhine. 
If this plant be once introduced to a garden, in which the foil is light and the fituation dry, it will come un 
yearly from feeds Ipontaneoufly fcattered. * 
