Papaveracece .] 
THE COLONY OE VICTORIA. 
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PAPAVER. 
Tourneforty Institutions Pei Herb . 119.—Poppy. 
Sepals 2 or 3, imbricate in aestivation. Petals normally 4-6, by metamorphosis of the sta¬ 
mens numerous. Anthers terminal, with marginal dehiscence. Stigmas 4 or more, adnate to the 
orbicular or broad-conical summit of the ovary, linear-filiform, radiating. Placentas opposite to the 
stigmas, intervalvular. Ovules very numerous, anatropal. Capsule opening under the terminal disk, 
either by the short free apex of the otherwise indehiscent valves or by the terminal recess of the 
latter, imperfectly septate by the placental laminae. Seeds copious, small, ovate- or globular-kidney- 
shaped. Testa netted-veined. Strophiole none. Cotyledons undivided.— Lvtin4, Gen. 648; Gcertn. 
de Fruct. et Semin, i. 289, t, 60. 
Annual, less frequently biennial or perennial herbs, dispersed over the temperate and the colder 
zone of Europe and Asia, rare in North America and extratropical Africa and Australia ; their juice 
white or yellow; leaves often hispid and glaucous, pinnati-lobed or jagged; flowers pedunculate, white, 
yellow, purplish, red or variegated, or in intermediate shades, in bud drooping; capsules globular, 
ovate, oblong or even broad-clavate, truncate at the apex. 
Papaver horridum, Cand. Syst. ii. 79; Sweet, Brit. Flower Gard. ii. 173; Elkcm, Tentam. Mono¬ 
graph. Gen. Papao. 32. 
Stem annual, leafy, few- or many-flowered; leaves jagged-pinnatifid, as well as the stem, branches, 
peduncles and sepals armed with short rigid spreading bristles; lobes of leaves short, comparatively bioad, 
acutely toothed; petals miniate, about twice as long as the fulvous upwards capillary filaments; anthers 
subcordate-ovate, yellowish; teeth of the stigmatiferous disk 5-9, minute, semi-orbicular; margin of disk 
slightly undulate, not plicated; capsule glabrous, truncate-ellipsoid; placentas extending scarcely half way 
towards the centre of the capsule; seeds brownish-black. 
In sandy localities along the Murray and Snowy River. Found also in the neighborhood of the 
Flinders Ranges and of Moreton Ray, and by Dr. Herm. Becklar near Warwick. 
An herb, varying in height from §-5 feet, with simple or strictly branched stems, everywhere except the 
petals and organs of fructification more'or less copiously covered with almost straight bristles, which are pale 
yellowish, generally from about §-l| line long, those towards the apex of the peduncles being the smallest 
and closest. Root simple or branched, almost without fibres. Radical leaves several inches long, elongate- 
lanceolate in outline, tapering into a petiole; stem-leaves in circumscription rhomboid- or ovate- or narrow- 
lanceolate, sessile or even somewhat clasping, 2 inches long, 1 inch broad, or more or less smaller, distinctly 
veined, glaucous, lacerated into acutely toothed lobes, the apex and the teeth terminated by a bristle, and 
somewhat callous and revolute at the upper margin. Peduncles gradually lengthened, simple or little divided, 
at last sometimes more than | foot long, without bracts. Flower-bud ovate. Sepals, particularly towards 
the summit, hispid, ovate, veiy thin, inch long, truncate at the base, with a very tender upwards gradually 
dilated membrane along the inner margin. Petals pale-scarlet or rather brick-colored or of red-lead color, 
much alike to those of Papaver dubium, turning, like those of Papav. Rhoeas, dubium, Argemone and allied 
species, purple in drying, about \ inch long, nearly ovate. Filaments linear-capillary, 3-4 lines long Anthers 
i-i line long, with slightly emarginate base; cells adnate to the very narrow connective. Pollen-grams 
ovate-globose. Stigmas 5-9. Stigmatiferous disk as broad as the capsule, at first pyramidal, at last fiat 
Capsule 6-10 lines long. Intervalvular septa or placental laminae J-| line broad, meeting at the centre oi 
the disk. Valves bursting only at the apex, leaving openings of less than 1 line m length. Seeds scarcely 
J line long, opaque, oblique ovate-kidney-shaped. 
This species flowers in the spring. 
