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3.—PAPAVER HORRIDUM, Dec. THE BRISTLY, OR NEW HOLLAND POPPY. 
Engravings. — Swt. Brit. FI. Gard. t. 173, and our fig. 1, in 
plate 4. 
Specific Character _Capsules smooth, elliptic. Sepals hairy. 
Stem few-flowered, and covered with stiff bristles. Leaves somewhat 
stem-clasping, glaucous, sinuately pinnatifid ; lobules bristly at the ton 
of the nerves.—( G. Don.) 
Description, &c.— This is a very remarkable poppy, as its stem and leaves are covered all over with very 
stiff, strong bristles, which actually wound the fingers when the flower is gathered. The flower is small and of 
a brick-red; and the leaves, which are deeply cut, are of a bluish green, and have the nerves on their backs and 
margins covered with bristles. This poppy is a native of New Holland, from which country it was brought in 
1825, and it flowered for the first time in the Fulham nursery. It is quite hardy, and only requires sowing in 
common soil ; but it is scarcely worth growing as an ornamental plant, from the smallness of its flowers, and its 
bristly stem and leaves. It is, however, curious, as being the only poppy which has been found in New Holland. 
Its flowers, which are very numerous, are produced in July; and as it ripens its seeds freely, it was very 
abundant for a few years after its introduction. It does not, however, appear to have been much grown, and 
we do not know where seeds are now to be procured. 
4.—PAPAVER SETIGERUM, Dec. THE BRISTLE-POINTED, OR GRECIAN POPPY. 
Engravings. —Swt. Brit. FI. Gard. t. 172, and our fig. 2, in setose. Stem smooth, few-flowered. Leaves stem-clasping, glaucous, 
plate 4. toothed, each tooth terminated by a bristle. (G. Don.) 
Specific Character. —Capsules smooth, obovate. Sepals rather 
Description, &c. —As the last species boro considerable resemblance to the corn poppy, so this is nearly 
allied to the opium poppy. The Grecian poppy has a very elegant flower of a pale violet or lavender colour, 
with large, rich purple spots at the base of each petal. The stems and leaves are bristly, but neither so much so, nor 
with such rigid bristles, as those of the New Holland poppy. It was introduced in 1826, by seeds received from 
Gibraltar, but it is a native of Greece and the Islands of the Archipelago. It is distinguished from P. somniferum 
by the greenness of its leaves, and the long slender bristles with which they are covered, and its much smaller 
capsules, which have never more than six or eight rays. It is quite hardy, but, like the opium poppy, it requires 
a rich soil to grow it to perfection. We do not know where seeds are now to be procured, but when first intro¬ 
duced it was grown in Colville’s nursery, King’s Road, Chelsea. 
5.—PArAVER GARIEPINUM, Burchell. THE GARIEP, OR SOUTH AFRICAN POPPY. 
Engraving. —Curtis's Bot. Mag. t. 3623. I hairy. Stem covered with numerous bristly hairs. Leaves sessile. 
Specific Character. —Capsules smooth, obovate-oblong. Sepals | hispid, sinuately pinnatifid. Lobes ovate and distant. 
Description, &c. —This poppy closely resembles P. horridum in the shape of its flowers and leaves. It 
differs, however, in the colour of the flowers, which arc of an orange colour, and the shape of the lid of the 
capsule, which is like that of the roof of a pent-liouse, with large arch-shaped openings below like windows. 
The leaves of both this poppy, and that of New Holland, are remarkable for the shortness of their lobes and the 
distance at which they are apart. The stems and leaves of the African poppy are covered with bristles , but they 
