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POLYANDRIA, MONGGYNTA, 
flowering in March and April. v.v. A smaller species. 
than the following, the whole plant somewhat glaucous, 
scattered with diaphanous hairs and the peduncles ofien 
proliferous. 
2. *petiolatum. Leaves ample, smooth, upon long peti- : 
oles, pinnatifidly lobed, lobes 5 to 7, with large angular 
indentures. Has. In very shady woods on the banks 
of the Ohio, abundant; flowering from the latter end of 
May to July» Os. Root perennial. Stem subquadran- 
gular 2-leaved, rarely 3; “  <8inches high. Petioles. 
often nearly the length «i the leayes. Leaves large, 
about 8 inches leng and 6 wide; smooth and glaucous 
beneath; veins on the under side subpilose, sinuately pin- 
natifid, 5 to 7 lobed, lobes large, angularly and incisely 
teothed, terminal lobe partly confluent, often somewhat 
trifid. Peduneles aggregated, about 3 inches long, pilose, 
arising from the centre of the stem, subcymose, cyme 
closely sessile. Calix pilose, abruptly acuminate, 2-leav- 
ed. Petals \4, roundish, cuneate towards the base, deep 
yellow, nearly as large as those of Glauciuim luteum. 
Style more than half. the length of the germ, (about 2 
lines), vellow, stigma capitate, 4-lobed. Capsule elliptic, 
or oblong-elliptic, turgid, and densely setose,. containing 
many seeds, valves: 4, thickish, bursting and becoming 
~ revolute. Receptacle similar to that of Argemone, ap- 
plied to the margin of the valves und connected: with the 
persistent style. Seeds excavately punctate, and longi- 
= : = tudinally crested at the hilum, but not striated, brown 
smooth; albumen of the seed white and oily, envelop- 
ing the minute embryon.—These 2 species possess no. 
affinity which Lean perceive to Sanguinaria more than to 
_. she rest. of the getter 
er, but they are -distinetly allied to 
Slag hitherto peculiar to the western parts of the 
‘UN States. Papaver cambricum of Europe poet 
however, to belong to this genus, with which it 
almost exactly in habit, but the stem is branched, the 
BS stigma obsoletely Sfobed, and the capsule smooth, but i is. 
_ #t not valyular? 
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362. ARGEMONE. 2 (Prickly Poppy.) 
e S-leaved, decid s 
sessile, capitate, lobed. Capsule superior, 
_ with 3 to 6 angles, semivalvular, valves 3 to 6, 
‘acle filiform marginal, —— =iteote 
globose striated and punctured. — 
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3. Petals 6. Stig. 
Pore 
