648 POLYANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Papaver. 
P. du'bium. Capsules oblong, smooth, angular: stem many-flowered, 
hairy: fruit-stalks with bristles adpressed: leaves doubly pinna- 
tifid. 
(E. Bot. 644. E.)— Curt. 297 — Wale. — H . Ox. iii. 14.11— Pet. 52. 3. 
Stem (two feet high, E.) woolly below, more and more bristly upwards, 
the bristles on the fruit-stalks laid close. Leaves , segments entire, edges 
and mid-ribs hairy. Capsules conical, much longer than broad; rays of 
the summit from six to ten. (As the capsules ripen the lower part 
curiously shrinks from the lid sufficiently to admit the genial influence of 
the warm air, and the escape of the mature seeds, without endangering 
them by exposure to wet. E.) Petals dilute scarlet. A strict attention 
to the proportionate length and breadth of the capsule, and to the hairs 
on the fruit-stalk being laid close or expanding, will readily distinguish 
this species from P. rheeas. {Flowers always known from our other red 
Poppies by their paleness. Sm. E.) 
Long Smooth-headed Poppy. (Welsh: Drewg Hirben-llyfn. E.) Corn¬ 
fields, chiefly in light sandy land. A. June—July. 
(About Shanklin Chine, and other parts of the Isle of Wight, is found an 
extremely hirsute var. as represented in FI. Dan. 902: the calyx studded 
with large transparent globules, with a bristle springing out of each. 
The capsule is nearly twice as long as it is broad, longer than in P. rheeas , 
shorter than in P. duhium. 
P. somnif'erum. Capsule smooth, nearly globular, as are the calyx 
and stem: leaves embracing the stem, jagged, glaucous. 
(E. Bot. 2145. E.)— Blackw. 482. (3 482— Woodv. 185— Dod. 445. 2— Lob. 
Obs. 142. 1, and Ic. 272. 2 — Ger. Em. 369. 1— Park. 366. 2 — Fuchs. 518 
— Dod. 445. 1 —Lob. Obs. 464. 1, and Ic. i. 274. 1 — Ger. Em. 369. 2 (3 — 
Park. 365. 1 —J. B. 390— Matth. 1058— Ger. 296. 1— Ger. 296. 2 (3— 
Trag. 122— Lob. Obs. 464. 1, and Ic. i. 274. 2— Ger. Em. 370. 
Petals white, tinged with purple, with large deep purple blotches at the 
base. Ray. ( Flowers very large. The whole plant glaucous. Stem 
three feet high, smooth in the lower part, rough upwards with expanding 
hairs. E.) 
White Poppy. (Opium Poppy. E.) Uncultivated neglected gardens. 
Ray. Corn-fields. Hudson. Water beach, and banks of the closes 
which separate Denny Farm from the Ely road. Relhan. (Certainly 
wild on the banks of all the fen ditches, where the soil is sandy, in the 
parish of Hockwold cum Wilton, Norfolk. Rev. Mr. White, in FI. Brit. 
Near the observatory, Oxford; and by Godstow Nunnery. Sibthorp. 
Willington Ballast Hills, Durham; and about Rochester. Mr. Winch. 
About Delavine House, near Coupar, Angus-shire. Miss Watson, in E. 
glorying in, their charms.” i( And how much is there in this flower corresponding with 
the nature of man. The root, like the infancy of the human plant, contains the whole of 
the future being ; but who can look at either, and form an estimate of their physical and 
moral beauty. The gradual unfolding of the leaves resembles the progressive stages of 
education; till at length the human plant stands forth in all the strength of his faculties, 
an intellectual and moral agent. But, unlike the brilliant Poppy, he is not the flower of a 
day. The seeds of piety to God, and benevolence to man, are ripened in his bosom, 
destined to germinate and blossom in a richer soil, the garden of immortality.” Wonders of 
the Veg. Kingdom, p. 72, E.) 
