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GLxlUCIUM phoenicium.
Tied Horned-Poppy.
POLYANDRIA Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. of 2 leaves. Petals 4. Pod superior,
linear, of 2 cells, and 2 or 3 valves.
Seeds numerous, dotted.
Spec. Char. Stem hispid. Stem-leaves pinnatifid,
jagged. Pod bristly.
Syn. Glaucium phoenicium. Sm. FI. Brit. 564.
Gcertn. v. 2. 165. t. 115.
G. corniculatum. Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. t. 32.
Chelidonium corniculatum. Linn. Sp. PL 724.
Huds. 229. With. 484. Hull. 116.
■ A. NATIVE of sandy cornfields, which Mr. Hudson says
was sent him from Norfolk by Mr. Stillingfleet with the Violet
Horned-Poppy. The latter certainly is wild in those parts of
the county, where Mr. Stillingfleet used to pass most of his
time, but no other person has ever seen the present species in
that or any other part of Britain ! In Chelsea garden it has
from time immemorial come up every year as a weed, and we
have, as well as Mir. Curtis (though he has not acknowledged
it) drawn a garden specimen. We are the more inclined to
publish this beautiful plant just now, that it may appear how
it differs from G. fulvum, given in Exotic Botany tab. 7,
which has been taken for it.
G. phoenicium, is, like that, truly annual, flowering in
June and July, and the flowers are very short-lived though
produced in long succession. The stem is 2 feet high, branched,
clothed with horizontal hairs. Leaves all deeply pinna-
tifid, glaucous^ roughish, jagged and toothed. Flowers on
stalks, scarlet, half the size of G. fulvum. Pod rough with
longish rigid close bristles. The very different stem-leaves are
sufficient to prove it distinct from that species.