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like hair; underneath strongly nerved, the nerves clothed
irregularly with rigid hairs: segments or lohes acute,
the margins slightly revolute. Peduncles long and slender,
cylindrical, producing a few hristle like hairs here
and there. Calyx of two sepals, which are convex or
concave inwards, with memhranaceous margins; striate
or slightly furrowed, naked at the hase, hut clothed
ahove half way with rigid bristles, that are widened at
the base, and taper to a slender point. Petals 4, broadly
obovate, the margins slightly notched, very much imbricate,
and cupped ; the two outer ones about double
the size of the inner ones, of a blush or pale flesh colour,
lightest upwards, very much lined or striate, all
having a large oblong or obovate dark purple patch at
the base. Stamens numerous, spreading: filaments
smooth, dark purple: pollen pale yellow. Germen oho-
vate. Stigma sessile, 6 to 9-rayed.
Seeds of this pretty species of Poppy were presented
to Mr. Colvill the year before last, with several other
sorts of curious seeds by Lady Whitshed, who had received
them from Gibraltar; a very good engraving of
the same species is published in Delessert’s leones selectee
; it is readily distinguished from P. somniferum,
the only species with which it is likely to be confounded,
by its greener leaves, the points and teeth of which are
terminated by long setae, and also by its much smaller
capsules ; it is a very hardy annual, and only requires
to be sown in the open borders early in Spring. The
richer the soil is the stronger it w ill grow, and the size
of the flowers will also vary according to the situation
in which it is grown.
1. Calyx, to show th e brUtly sepals. 2. Some of the Stamens, to sliow th e ir
insertion, and the unequal length o f the filaments. 3. Ripe Capsule, showing
th e 8-rayed crown, and also th e diff erenc e o f size betwe en it and P . somn^eram.
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