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PAPAVER alpinum.
Alpine Poppy.
Natural Order. Pap averacea. DC. syst. veg. 2. p. 61.
P A P A V E R . Supra fol. 172.—§. I. Capsulis hispidis.
P . alpinum, capsulà hispidà obovato-oblougà, sepalis pilosiusculis,
pedunculis radicalibus, foliis glabriusculis bipinnatisectis, lobulis
teauibus subacutis. DC. loc. c it.p .l2 . ^Jodr. i. p.JA8.
Papaver alpinum. L i n n , s p e c . 1 2 5 . Jacq.fl. aust. t. 8S. Willden. sp.
pl. 2. p. 1145. Pers. syn. 2. p. 62. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p. 289.
Spreng. syst. 2. p. 569. „ ^ .
Papaver Burseri. Crantz austr. 2. p. 138. t. 6 .J . 4.
A dwarf perennial herbaceous plant, becoming thickened
at the base, and sometimes producing several shoots.
Leaves more or less crowded, petiolate, smooth or slightly
nubescent slightly glaucous, pinnate; the leaflets distant,
MsoZ,l.imos b ipL a tifid ; a— a aarrow
bluntish or scarcely acute, spreading. Pe/mZes lender,
flattened on the upper side, and hairy at the edges, the bans
long and at a distance from each other, bending inwards.
Peduncles about a span in length, cylindrical, smooth on
the lower part, the upper part thickly clothed with close-
pressed hairs. Calyx of 2 sepals, clothed wi h soft brown
close-pressed hairs. Petals 4, white, with a yellowish green
unguis, nearly orbicular, more or less crumpled and notched
at the margins, the two outer ones about double the size of
the inner ones. AZamews numerous, surrounding the germen:
filaments smooth, slender, of various lengths: anthers
joined by their base to the filaments, two-celled opening
longitudinally to discharge the pollen, which is of a bright
yellow. Germen oval, bristly, terminated with from 4 to
6 sessile, radiate, fringed stigmas, and betwixt each is a glossy
green crescent-shaped gland.
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