前不久,我们接到陕西成县一位读者的电话,说他家养植的花毛茛被当地公安机关当作罂粟刨掉了,周围的花友邻居也有同样的遭遇。懊恼无奈之下,他致电本刊,想求证二者的不同。联想到以前还曾有人把虞美人、东方罂粟也和毒品罂粟混为一谈,我们感觉有必要刊登一篇鉴别这四种草花异同的文章。虽然早在2003年第9期我们已发表文章谈过罂粟和虞美人的区别,但显然很多朋友没读过或者印象不深了。为此,我们特地请中国科学院北京植物园的草花专家龙雅宜老师写下这篇文章,以正视听,避免今后再发生此类“冤假错案”。 Not long ago, we received a telephone call from a reader in Chengxian County, Shaanxi Province, saying that the ranunculus he had cultivated in his home was dug by the local public security bureau as a poppy. The surrounding florists and neighbors also had the same experience. Annoyed desperation, he called the magazine, want to prove the difference between the two. In the past, there were people who used to confuse Papyrus, Oriental poppy and drug poppy. We feel it necessary to publish an article that identifies the similarities and differences between the four grass species. Although we have published articles on the differences between poppy and poppy as early as the 9th issue of 2003, it is clear that many of my friends have not read or been impressed. To this end, we specifically invited the Chinese Botanical Garden, Beijing Botanical Garden grass flower expert Long Ya Yi wrote this article, to face the hearing, to avoid such “reoccurrence of misconduct” in the future.