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PAPAVER bracteatum. 
Giant Poppy. 
ess 
: POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. PapavERACER. Decand. syst. veg. 2. 67. 
PAPAVER. (Cal. 2-sepalus) sepala (foliola) concava, decidua. 
Pet. 4. Stam. indefinita. .Germ. ovatum. Stylus 0. Stigmata 4-20, ra- 
diantia, persistentia, sessilia super discum germini superimpositum. Caps. 
oblonga, obovata aut subglobosa, 1-locularis, @ carpellis 4-20 in thalami 
productione membranacea inclusis constans, sub stigmatum corona yalvulis 
brevibus dehiscens. Placente (receptacula) intervalvulares intis in disse- 
pimenta incompleta productw. Semina reniformia striatula. Herbe perennes 
aut annue, succo lacteo albo fate, sepits pilose. Radices simplices, fibrose. 
Caules teretes. Folia pinnatim lobata aut secta, lobis sepius incisis, denti- 
bus sepé pilo terminatis. Pedunculi azillares, solitarti, uniflori, nudi, ante 
florescentiam apice inflexi. Alabastra (flores ante expansionem) ided cernua, 
ovata aut globosa, levia aut setis pilosa. Flores erecti, albi rubri flavi At 
variegati, facile dupli et pleni, petalis tunc interdim dentatis aut laceris. 
Decand. loc. cit. 69. 
Div. Capsulis glabris (aut gnice tantum parce pilosis), 
Pp. bracteatum, petalis 5, capsulis glabris obovatis. bracteis persistentibus 
involucratis, sepalis pilosis, caulibus unifloris scabris foliosis, foliis pin- 
nato-partitis hispidis, lobis oblongis serratis. Lindley collect. 23. tab. 23. 
Habitus et characteres ut plurimim PAPAVERIS orientalis. Differt ta- 
men caule nunquam ramoso; foliis concavis, nec planis; floribus semper 
bracteatis; stigmatis radiis 16, nec 12, quod: sepiis in PAPAVERE orientali 
occurrit; dentibus disci stigmatict patentibus nec reflexis; demim florescentié 
precociore et aspecti, viridiore. Variat floribus immaculatis et petalis 5; 
talis varietas quoad petala dilineatur. Lindley loc. cit. 
The drawing was taken at the Nursery of Messrs. Col- 
vill, in the King’s Road; where the plant grows in the 
open border, and flowers constantly and abundantly durin 
the summer, making the finest show of all the o 
utdoors 
herbaceous plants. . 
We missed the opportunity of describing it, and have 
trusted to Mr. Lindley’s account for what we have to say 
concerning the history. 
The species differs most obviously from Papaver orien- 
tale, the closest congener, by the large involucral bractes 
that surround the base of the flower, which are always 
