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GLA U CIUM fulvum.
Orange-coloured Horned Poppy.
Natural Order. P apavekacejE. D C . Reg. veg. syst.
nat. 2. p . G7.
GLAUCIUM. Sépala 2. Pétala 4. Síamina numerosa.
Capsula siliqu®formis, bivalvis, valvulis ab apice ad basin
dehiscentibus, bilocularis, placentis nempe dissepimento spon-
gioso cellulari conjunctis, stigmate bilamellato margine incras-
sato glanduloso demùm quasi bilabiato coronata. Semina intra
dissepiment! foveolas subnidulantia, scrobiculata, crista glandu-
losà destituta, ovato-reniformia.
Herb® Uennes, sempervirentes, glauca, succo croceo acri
scatentes. Radices perpendiculares. Folia radicalia petiolata,
caulina sessilia imò amplexicaulia, pinnatim plus minusve incisa,
lobis latis obtusis apice interdum mucronulatis. Pedunculi
axillares et terminales, solitarii, uniflori. Flores flavi aut sub-
phcenicei, majores quàm in Chelidonio. D C . p . 94.
G. fulvum, caule glabro, foliis caulinis rotundato-sinuatis, silr-
quis scabris, floribus subsessilibus. D C . loc. cit.
Glaucium fulvum. Smith exot. bot. 1. p. 11. t. 7. in Rees cycl.
n. 2. Willd. enum. 562. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p . 288.
Link enum. 2. p. 68.
Chelidonium glabrum. Mill. diet. n. 5.
Chelidonium fulvum. Poir. supl. 5. p. 606.
Biennial, or, perhaps, Perennial. Stems erect,
branching, smooth, or with here and there a hair scattered
on them, glaucous, from 13 inches to 2 feet in
height. Leaves glaucous, thickly clothed underneath
with long rigid white hairs, and densely above with
shorter ones; lower ones petiolate, pinnatifid, segments
more or less lobed, lobes bluntly rounded; upper
leaves clasping the stem, cordately aiiriculate at the
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