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PAPAVER nudicaule.
Naked-stalked yellow Poppy.
POLY ANURIA Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. of 2, caducous leaves. Pet. 4.
Stigma sessile, radiated. Caps, superior; the
Seeds on receptacles forming incomplete dissepiments,
escaping by pores beneath the permanent
stigma.
Spec. Char. Capsule hispid, obovate, 4—6-ribbed.
Scapes single-flowered. Leaves pinnatifid, their
lobes toothed or cut, acute.
Syn. Papaver nudicaule. Linn. Sp. PI. 725. OEd.
FI. Dan. t. 41. Hook, in Fl. Lond. N. S. 213.
Br. FI. 255.
T h i s is eminently a Northern plant, abounding in the
Arctic regions, and adorning the waste and desert shores
with its beautiful yellow blossoms. Professor Giesecke, of
Dublin, who had become familiar with the plant during his
long visit to Greenland, had the good fortune to discover it
growing singly among rocks and glens in the hills at Achil-
head, in the north-west of Ireland. From the dried specimen
which he had the kindness to communicate to us from
the native station, our present figure is made.
It is perennial, and sends down into the soil a long
woody tap-root, which frequently branches near the
crown. The leaves are all radiant, stalked, pinnatifid,
the segments few, lanceolate, acute, entire, or sometimes
laciniated. The leaves and all the rest of the plant, except
the corolla and stamens, are clothed with tawny hairs.