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Excerpt from An Inaugural Dissertation on Opium, Embracing Its History, Chemical Analysis and Use and Abuse as a Medicine
The petals are large, somewhat round, entire, a little undulated and white; occasionally Of a silver gray colour, and tinged with violet at the base.
The filaments are numerous and slender; shorter than the corolla; they support erect compressed anthers, and the germen which is globular and smooth, is crowned with a many-rayed stigma.
The capsule stands on a short pedicle; is globular when full-grown, smooth and gray, or sky-coloured, like the stem. It is from two to four inches in diameter, a little ?attened at the top and bottom, and is crowned with the persistent stigma, the segments of which stand erect, and present an elegant appearance.
The seeds of the poppy are small, white, or gray, reni form and numerous. When ripe, they escape through small openings situated under the points of the stigma.
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