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P A P A V E R cambricum.
Yellow Poppy.
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P O L Y A N D R I A Monogynia.
G en. Char. Calyx two-leaved. Corolla of four petals.
Capfule one-celled ; difcharging its feeds by pores
under the ftigma.
Spec. Char. Capfules fmooth, oblong. Stem many-
flowered, fmooth. Leaves pinnated, jagged.
S y n . Papaver cambricum. Linn. Sp. PI. 727* HudJ.
FI. An. 231. With. Bot. Arr. 553.
P. luteum perenne, laciniato folio, Cambrobritanni-
cum. Rail Syn. 309.
S a ID to be very common on the Welch mountains, and not
unfrequent in Weftmoreland. Dr. Smith has gathered it about
Kendal and Kirkby-Lonfdale, in ftony, moift, and fhady places.
With his wild fpecimens we have compared that here figured;
for which we are obliged to the Rev. Dr. Goodenough, who
favoured us with it from his garden. Dillenius, in his excellent
hiftory of this plant (Hort. Elth. 301, t. 223), alferts, that it
becomes larger and lefs glaucous by culture: but we are af-
fured it is often full as luxuriant in its native foil; which indeed
is generally the cafe with the vegetable productions of rich or
moift alpine fituations.
The root is perennial; the flowers laft from June to the
middle of Auguft. The whole plant is of a tender, pale, and
fomewhat fucculent habit, not unlike the Celandine, but more
delicate.