Eebbuary 17. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
375 
M W 
D U 
FEBRUARY 17-23, 1853. 
Weather near London in 1852. 
Barometer. Thermo.jwind. Bain in In. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R.&S. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
bf. Sun. 
Day of 
Year. 
17 Th 
Small Eegar Moth; bushes. 
j 
29.858 — 29.658! 50—37 
W. - 
12 a. 7 
17 a. 5 
2 30 
9 
14 18 
43 
13 F 
Orange Upperwing. 
29.737 — 29.690 40—27 
N.W.' — 
10 
18 
3 34 
10 
14 13 
49 
19 S 
Spring Usher; dry leaves. 
30.018 — 29.783 39-23 
N.W. — 
8 
20 
4 34 
11 
14 7 
50 
20 Son 
2 Sunday in Lent. 
30.180 — 30.117 38—15 
N.W. — 
0 
22 
5 29 
12 
14 1 
51 
21 M 
Sun’s declination, 10° 28' s. 
30.302 —30.233 42—32 
W. 01 
4 
24 
G 14 
13 
13 54 
52 
22 Tu 
Karlv Moth; hedges. 
30.574 — 30.423 40-22 
N.E. — 
2 
26 
0 50 
14 
13 40 
53 
23 W 
Small Brindie; oaks. 
30.637 — 30.572 46—23 
N.E. — 
0 
27 
rises. 
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13 37 
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Meteorology op the Week. —At Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-six years, the average highest and lowest tempera¬ 
tures of these days are 46.4° and 33.1° respectively. The greatest heat, 5/°, occurred on the I7th in 1847 ; and the lowest cold, l6°, on the 19th 
in 1845. During the period 104 days were fine, and on 7^ rain fell. 
BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. 
POPPr\VORT3.—P.\PA\'ERACE.iE. 
(^Continued from page 3.35.) 
GLAUCIUSt.—HORNED POPPV. 
Generic Char.\cier.— Oalgx below the seed-vessel, of 
two oblong, concave, pointed, deciduous leaves. Petals four, 
much larger than the calyx, roundish, reversed-egg-shaped, 
wavy, crumpled, spreading, with short claws, deciduous ; 
two opposite ones rather the smallest. Stamens numerous, 
with capillary, short filaments. Anthers roundish, terminal, 
of two lobes. Oennen cylindrical, or somewhat compressed, 
longer than the stamens. Style none. Stigma large, abrupt, 
permanent, of two or three cloven, compressed, downy 
lobes. Pod linear, very long, of two or three linear, concave 
valves, and as many cells. Seeds numerous, convex at the 
outer side, pitted in regular lines, without a crest, disposed 
irregularly in two rows in each cell, being sunk in tbe 
hollows of a spongy or membranous partition, connected 
with the linear marginal receptacles, which are placed 
between the edges of the valves, and bear the seeds on 
short stalks. Annual or biennial herbs, mostly milky-green, j 
with yellow fetid juice. Leaves more or less pinnatifid, ' 
and subdivided ; the upper ones stalkless. Flowers solitai-y, | 
stalked, lateral or terminal, yellow, scarlet, or violet, very 
handsome. 
Glauciuh luteum : Yellow Horned Poppy ; Sea Celan¬ 
dine ; Sea Poppy. 
Description .—It is a biennial. The whole plant very milky- 
green. Boot spindle, or carrot-shaped. Stem round, smooth, 
about two feet high, strong, and much branched. Root-leaves 
stalked, divided into many sections from the margin to near 
the mid-rib, waved, variously lobed, and indeuted ; the 
sections gradually larger towards the upper end of the leaf; 
hairy on both sides; living through the winter. Stem-leaves 
embracing the stalk with their heart-shaped base; deeply 
indented, hairy above, smooth beneath. Branches in opposite 
pairs. Flower-stalks thick, rather hairy, mostly one, but 
sometimes two-flowered. Calyx large, oval, hairy, falling 
off as tbe flower opens. Petals large, egg-shaped, golden- 
yellow’, with brownish blotch at the base. Seed-vessel about 
ten inches long, variously bent, rough, with small wart-like 
projections, but not hairy, terminated by a brownish, 
arrow-headed stigma. Stamens sixty or more. Tlie flowers 
droop down until the day preceding their opening, they 
j then become erect. The petals fall off the second day after 
! they have opened. Seeds blackish, curiously celled. 
I Places where found .—On the sands near the sea-shore. 
; Time of flowering .—June to August. 
' History .—Its name Glaucium, alludes to its strikingly • 
glaucous or milky-green colour; luteum was applied to it 
, on account of itsyeliow' tlowers, but flavum, or bright golden- 
I yellow, would be more appropriate. Its large and numerous I 
\ flowers, although of short duration individually, succeed 
’ each other so profusely, as to be very ornamental. The 
whole plant abounds with a yellow, fetid, and poisonous 
I juice. It is said to occasion madness, and probably is tbe 
Glaucium of Dioscorides. It succeeds if sown upon rock- 
' work, and there is very effective. The named of Horned 
Poppy refers to the shape of the seed-pod. {Martyn. 
\ Smith. Sowerby. Gerard.) ‘ 
Whatever may be said for or against the doctrine 
which we have endeavoured to propound in the leading 
article of our number for December 10 (page 190), 
respecting the origin of buds, so far as it is exemplified 
by our experiments on the Willow; or in whatsoever 
degree we may estimate the other ideas, hypotheses, or 
speculations, to which the mysterious origin of the 
purple Laburnum has given rise, both here and on the 
continent, that doctrine which admits the possibility, or, 
rather, the probability, of the soft or cellular matter, 
formed by two allied plants, being capable of intermix- 
ing together, provided the parts are brought into close 
contact, and so kept during the formation of the soft 
wood, is by far the most important, in a practical view ; 
of this curious subject. ' 
To this point, therefore, we shall draw the attention of 
the reader to-day, after first bringing before him, in one 
view, some of the principal bearings of the question, so 
far as they relate to this part of the subject. Some va- j 
rieties of the Pelargonium are known to gardeners as j 
notorious for making a kind of warty growth on the stem. ! 
We ourselves have seen this form of growth so far j 
approach to the condition of the natural growth, that j 
rudimentary leaves appeared in clusters on the upper j 
No. CCXXIX., VoE. IX. 
