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ARGEMONE ocliroleuca.
Straw-coloured Argemone.
Natural Order. Papavekace®. DC. .<
ARGEMONE. Supra fol. 2-2G.
•t. 2. p. 67.
A. ocliroleuca, foliis profunde sinuatis pinnatifidisve glaucescentibus
: nervis aculeato-setiferis, floribus terminalibus solitariis, sta-
miuibus pauois, capsula oblonga profunde sulcata aculoatissima,
aculéis subreflexis ; stigmatibus distinctis patentibus.
Annual. Stem 3 or 4 feet high, branching; branches
slightly glaucous, irregularly clothed with sharp setaj-like
prickles, which are strong enough to perforate the fingers
when handling it. Leaves sessile, very deeply sinuate or
sometimes nearly pinnatifid, undulate, glaucous, and elegantly
painted up the centre and along the middle of the
lobes with a bluish white, which gives them an elegant appearance
: lobes spreading, toothed, the teeth and points
acute and terminated by sharp spines; the nerves underneath
producing small rigid prickles irregularly here and
there. Flowers terminal, solitary, pale straw-coloured, the
young branches growing beyond them. Peduncle short,
prickly, producing one or two small leaves a little below
the flower. Calyx of three sepals, tinged with purple, those
are clothed irregularly with various sized sette, and terminated
with long slender horn like appendages, which end
regularly into a sharp spine, deciduous, first breaking away
at the base, and are then pushed off by the expansion of
the petals. Corolla generally of 6 petals, which are spreading,
obovate, tapering to a slender base, crenulate, strongly
many veined, the veins much branched. Stamens not so
numerous as in the other species. Filaments smooth, yel-
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