34, PAPAVERACEiE. [Sanguinaria. 



order between the two, from both of which, however, it is separated by very striking niarfcs of distinction. 

 The ^I3*ncture of the whole flower is indeed most singular, but no part of it so much so as the great peltate 

 foUaceous stigma. In the present species I have examined the seeds with much attention ; they are ovate, 

 pale reddish brown, minutely tuberculated, having a sliarp keel on their under side, inserted by their nar- 

 rowest point, upon a large club-shaped, or, rather, an oMong and stipitate receptacle, which sUnds out from 

 the central column or axis, into the middle of each cell. The albumen is waxy, but granulated. At its base, 

 near the hilum, and with its radicle pointing to the hilum, is a stnall entirely immersed Bmbryo^ cylindrical, 

 cleft at one extremity into two cotyledons, notwithstanding that De la Pylaie did not perceive tliem. The 

 valves of the capsule open from above, between the cells, whose dissepiments are attached to the centre of 

 each valve and separate from the central axis or column. 



Ord. VII. pap averages. Juss. 



1. PAPAVER. Linn, 



Sepala 2, convexa, decidua. Fetala 4. Stam, plurima. Stylus 0. Stigmata 4-20, 

 radiantia, sessilia, super discum ovarium coronantem. Capsuia obovataj 1-locularis, e 

 carpellis 4-20 in thalami productione membranacea inclusis constans, sub stigmatum 

 corona valvulis brevibus dehiscens. Placentce inter valvulares, intus in dissepimenta in- 

 completa productae, — Herbae perennes^ succo albo f(zt<B. Pedunculi mde Jlorescentiam 

 apice iiiJiexL DC. 



w 



1. p. nudicaule; capsuia hispida obovato-oblonga, sepalis setosis, scapis nudis, foliis 

 pitinatifidis, segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis incisis acutis. — Linfi, Sp, PL p, 725. Pursh, 

 PL Am, V. 2. p. 366. Sims in Bot Mag. t 1633. Hook, in Fl. Land. K S. t 214. 



Hab. Barren grounds of North America, from lat. 64° to the Arctic Sea, in lat. 69°. Dr. Richardson, 

 Everywhere upon the shores of that sea, throughout the xrhole breadth of N, America, and in the islands. 

 Parry. Franklin. Back, Lay and Collie in Beechey^s Collection. Labrador, Mr, Morrison. Upon tlie 

 Rocky Mountains, at a great elevation, between lat. 52° and 56^. Drummond. 



2. ESCHSCHOLTZIA. Chamisso. 



Heceptadidi 



CaL mitraeformis, 



deciduus. Cor. 4-petala5 unguibus fauci receptaculi insertis, staminiferls. Caps, siliqui- 

 formis, bivalvis. Semina marginibus valvarum afHxa. 



L E, californica. — Cliam,. in Horoa Phys. BeroL p. 74. t, 15. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 

 344, LindL in Bot. Beg. t, 1168. Hook, in Bot, Mag. t. 2887. Cham, et Schlecht. in Linnma^ 

 V. 1. p. 554. 



Hab. North-West coast of America, Menzies. On the same coast, on the dry sandy banks of streams, in 

 the plEuns of the River Multnomah, in N. lat. 43°, and southward to the Spanish Possessions.— This, which 

 was, long after its discovery by Mr. Menzies, found by the Russian Expedition under Kotzehue, and 

 described by the Naturalists of that voyagfe, is now become in a few short years, since the journey of Mr. 

 Douglas in 1824-7, one of the most common and most beautiful ornaments to our gardens. Learns very 

 glaucous, tripinnatifid, the segments linear. Flowers lai^e, yellow, not much unlike those of Glaucium httmm, 

 with a deep orange spot at the base of each petal. Stigmas 4, two longer than the other two. Seeds glo- 

 bose, almost black, wrinkled, attached to a rather long seed-stalk. 



3. SANGUINARIA. Linn. 



Petala S-12, Stamina 24,, Stigmata 2. Capsuia oblonga, bivalvis, ventricosa, valvis 



