PA PAVER 
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Papaver argemone L. Sp. Pi. 506 (1753) ! ; Smith En S- Bot - no - 643 079 9); Fl - Brit - 566 (1800); 
Syme Eng. Bot. i, 91 (1863); Rouy et Foucaud Fl. France i, 159 (1893); Fedde op. cit. 328 (1909). 
leones : — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 643 ; Curtis Fl. Lond. ii, t. 105 ; Fl. Dan. t. 867 ; Svensk Bot. t. 538 ; Reichenbach 
Icon, iii, t. xiv, fig. 4475- 
Camb. Brit. Fl. iii. Plate 174.. (a) Lower leaf, (b) Fertile shoot, (c) Stamens (enlarged), (d) Stigmatic 
disk. Huntingdonshire (E. W. H.). 
Exsiccata: — Billot, 1806; 2408; 2408 bis; Bourgeau (PI. dEsp.), 532; A. Schultz (Fl. Istr .), 11 ; Todaro, 
1070; Welwitsch (Fl. Lusit.), 1037; Wirtgen xix, 1057* 
Annual. Shoot about 1-5 — 4*5 dm. high, with scattered hairs. Petioles of the lower leaves about 
as long as the laminae, upper leaves (or bracts) sessile, not amplexicaul. Laminae pinnate, pinnae 
pinnatifid. Flowers 3 — 6 cm. in diameter ; May to August. Sepals with scattered bristly hairs. 
Petals brick-red, not contiguous when expanded. Stigmas 4—6, very prominent, reaching the margin 
of the disc. Capsule subclaviform, about 2-0 cm. long and 0-5 broad; sessile, with scattered ascending 
bristly hairs. 
P. maritimum Withering is simply a small state of P. argemone. 
(/ 3 ) subvar. glabrum comb, nov.; P. argemone var. glabrum Koch Syn. 29 (1835). 
Capsules with no or very few bristles. 
Perhaps this is a hybrid with P. dubium. 
Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire (Lees in Bot. Rec. Club for 1877, 231 (1878)). 
Cornfields, sunny hedgebanks, and waste places, on light sandy or gravelly soils ; a lowland 
plant; the Channel Isles, throughout England, local in Wales, Ireland, and Scotland (northwards 
to the Hebrides). 
Europe (except northern and Arctic); North America (not indigenous). 
4. PAPAVER HYBRIDUM. Poppy. Plate 175 
Argemone capitulo torulo Gerard Herball 300(159 7); P - lacUdato folio capitulo hispido rotundiore Ray Syn. 
ed. 3, 308 (1724)- 
Papaver hybridum>L. Sp. PI. 506 (1753)!; Smith Eng. Bot. t. 43 (1792); Fl. Brit. 565 (1800); Syme 
Map 65. Distribution of P. hybridum in the British Islands 
Eng. Bot. i, 92 (1863); Fedde op. cit. 332 (1909); hispidum Lamarck Fl. France 111, 174 077 8 )i Rou y et 
Foucaud Fl. France i, 161 (1893). 
