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| | All about flowers - THE ORIENTAL POPPY, Papaver Oriental (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | There are several forms of the Oriental poppy, and they are distinguished from other poppies not only by the intense though unrefined colour of their flowers, but by the fact that they have three calyx pieces, other species having but two. |
 | | Its likeness to a poppy begets an interest, and its intrinsic beauty sustains that interest, more especially when it is found fringing the roadway by the side of the former residences of Wordsworth and Coleridge and other of our poets amid the hills. |
 | | This, indeed, is the Welsh poppy (Meconopsis Cambrica), one of the most beautiful and engaging of British weeds, and especially worthy of note, from its persistency in creeping close to the walls that have sheltered many of the brightest wits and happiest versifiers whose names glitter in our great Walhalla. |
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