
          I have just been examining
 fresh flowers of Papaver, sent 
 me by mail from Pennsylvania. 
 The aestivation of the corolla is 
 not valvate, as is always said 
 without exception in the family, but 
 is most distinctly imbricated! 


 The genus Asimina must
 therefore be restored, that is if 
 the other species correspond in this.
 My specimens are hardly good enough 
 of A. [Asimina] pygmaea & grandiflora to tell. 
 Will you look at yours. In
 A. triloba, each row of petals is 
 finely imbricated. 
 [sketch of flower viewed from top, showing the imbricated petals]
        