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BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. 
neighbourhood of cascades and waterfalls. It is also frequently found near rocks and glens in Wales, and in 
similar situations in other parts of the kingdom. 
The flowers of this plant are very like those of the common Poppy, hut they are of a bright yellow; and 
the capsule has sometimes only five stigmas in its cover. It has been sometimes confounded with the yellow 
poppy {Papaver nudicaule ) ; but it is very distinct, even at first sight—that plant having small flowers and a 
hairy stem, and this having large flowers and a smooth stem. Besides, P. nudicaule is fragrant, which the 
Welsh Poppy is not. 
GENUS III. 
THE HORNED-POPPY. (Glaucium, Juss.) 
Lin. Sysl. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. —Petals four. Stamens numerous. Pod cells. Seeds destitute of a crest. Biennials, with glaucous, scabrous, 
long, two-valved, with the placentae meeting in the middle, and form- pinnatifid leaves, and yellow milky juice. {Lindley.) 
ing a spongy dissepiment, which divides the cavity of the pod into two 
Description, &c. —Every one who has visited Brighton, or any of the other watering-places on the Sussex 
coast, must have observed the great number of plants of the yellow Horned-Poppy which are found on every 
cliff; and often on the sea-shore, even within the reach of the waves. 
“There bright as gems of fairy lore, 
Or Eastern poet’s dream, 
The Horned-poppies gild the shore 
With sunny gleam.” Anon. 
The leaves are large and of a pale blue green, as nearly as possible the colour of the sea; and the horn-like 
pods, which are generally about a foot long, are of the same colour. The flowers are large and very handsome, 
hut they soon fall. The name of Glaucium alludes to the glaucous colour of the leaves; and the Horned-Poppy 
to the long narrow pods, which stick up through the leaves like horns. 
1.—THE YELLOW HORNED-POPPY. (Glaucium luteum, Scop.) 
Synonymes —G. flavum, Crantz ; Chelidonium Glaucium, Lin. ; Specific Character. —Stem smooth. Stem-leaves wavy. Pod 
The Sea Celandine. roughish, with minute tubercles. ( Smith .) 
Engravings.—E ng. Bot., t. 8. ; 2d ed., t. 748 ; and our fig. 1, 
in PI. 7. 
Description, &c. —This plant is abundant on the sea-coast of Sussex, and it is extremely ornamental as it 
continues in flower the whole summer. It is also a very handsome garden flow r er. The root of this plant is 
very long and it strikes deeply into the ground, so that when it is cultivated in gardens it will not grow well 
unless the soil is somewhat sandy and sufficiently loose for the root to strike into it. For the same reason, when 
cultivated in gardens, it should be sown where it is to remain, as it will not bear transplanting. The whole 
plant abounds in a glutinous, yellow juice which has a very offensive smell, and is said to occasion madness in 
those who take it. 
It is sometimes called an annual and sometimes a biennial; but the fact is, that though it will flower the 
first year when raised from seed, it will live several years on the sea-coast, or in any situation not quite 
