546 PAPAVERACEAE 
ORDER PAPAVERALES — PaAPAvERAL ORDER 
Herbs, shrubs, trees, or vines. Leaves with entire, toothed, dissected, 
or compound blades. Flowers perfect. Calyx of distinct or nearly dis- 
tinet sepals. Corolla of distinct or nearly distinct petals, or wanting. 
Androecium of few or many hypogynous stamens. Gynoecium of 2-sev- 
eral united carpels. Ovary superior. Fruit capsular or baccate. 
Sepals 2, or very rarely 3 or 4: e pres sent. 
Flower regular: stamens 8 or numerous : juice usually 
milky or colored. Fam.1. PAPAVERACEAE. 
Flower irregu : mens 6: juice usually watery. Fam.2. FUMARIACEAE. 
Sepals 4-8 : endosperm wantin 
Capsule 2-celled : stamens 6, tetradynamous. Fam. 3. BRASSICACEAE. 
oe 1- celled : stamens when 6 not tetradynamous. 
Gynoecium 2-carpellary : leaves with simp r pal- 
"nadie compound blades Fam.4. CAPPARIDACEAE. 
Gynoecium 3-carpellary : PETS with pinnately com- 
pound blades. Fam. 5. MORINGACEAE. 
FaAMxiLyY 1. PAPAVERACEAE — Poppy FAMILY 
Herbs or rarely woody plants, the sap colored. Leaves alternate or 
opposite: blades entire, toothed, or divided. Flowers perfect, regular. 
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Gynoecium 2-several-earpellary. Fruit a capsule or a silique.—About 23 
genera and 115 species, most abundant in the north temperate zone. 
wor acum petals 8-12, not crumpled in the bud: stigmas over the valves of 
the capsu 1. SANGUINARIA. 
saue od "hers: petals 4-6, mostly crumpled: stigmas over the 
Capsule. Snlicüme to [ue base. 
ule pubescen 2. STYLOPHORUM. 
eue ule glabro a 3. CHELIDONIUM. 
Capsule dehiscent at the top or only to the middle. 
xi rown-like or disk-like: capsule opening by tooth- 
like “hds u the stigma: leaf-blades 
4. PAPAVER. 
Bm. 4. 6-lobed : capsule 4-6-valved: leaf-blades spiny- 
toothed. 5. ARGEMONE. 
1. SANGUINARIA [Dill.] L. Perennial herbs with red rootstocks. 
Leaves basal: blades palmately lobed. oe solitary. Sepals 2, glabrous. 
etals 8-12, narrow, white. Gynoecium 
carpellary, glabrous.—One species. 
canadensis L. Plant 8-30 em. tall, 
ine, 6-25 em : 
nally over-topped by the leaves: petals 
elliptic or de broader, 2-3 em. d 
capsule fusiform, 3-5 em. long.— OD- 
RED-PUCCOON.)—Rieh woods, various 
- half-dozen 
here recognized have been described. How 
ever, the characters of the rootstocks, the 
