POLYANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. > 
Herbaceous; leaves alternate, pinnatifid, and spiny; 
Bowers yellow or white, solitary, axillary and terminal; 
capsule ovate, spiny. Sap, yellow. 
Species. L.A. mexicana. In Georgia there is said to 
be not merely a yariety, but a second species of this ge- 
nus. with white flowers. 
A. mexicana is also indigenous to the West Indies and. 
Mexico, there is likewise a second species said to be na- 
tive in America; a third indigenous to the Pyrenees; is 
supposed to be a Papaver. 
363. PAPAVER. L. (Poppy.) 
- Calix 2-leaved, deciduous. Petals 4. Stig- 
ma radiate. Capsule superior, 1-celled, open-. 
ing by several pores situated under the persis- 
tent stigma. Seeds very numerous and minute. 
Herbaceous pat generally annual; leaves alternate, 
mostly pinnatifid, rarely simply lobed or crenate; flow- 
ers terminal upon very long and naked peduncles, colour 
yarious shades of red or white, more rarely yellow, com- 
monly double or filled with petals in the gardens, and wi 
often particoloured. Sap lactescent, ing opium, 
low as in Chelidonium in P. cambricum f in several 
respects appears allied to Stylophorum. — oe 
Species. 1. P. nwdicaule. In Labrador. It is singular 
to remark that the poppys so common sesig? Bais of 
grain throughout Europe have not yet made their ap- 
pearance in this manner in America. The absence of 
the Daisy (Bellis perennis) is also equally remarkabie, 
amidst so many fields, pastures and wastes overgrown 
with other Edropean plants. 
An European genus of about 12 species, with the ex- 
ception of 2 in the Levant and 1 in Barbary. 
$64. SANGUENARIA. E. (Puccoon, Bloodwort.} 
Calix 2-leaved, deciduous. Petals 8. Stigma 
sessile, 2-grooved. Capsule superior, oblong, 
l-celled, 2-valved, apex attenuated. Recepta-— 
cles 2, filiform, marginal. a: 
Root tuberous, horizontal, giving out a reddish and yery 
bitter lactescent sap. Leaves solitary, radical, reniform 
and lobed; scape ra Oe 1-fowered, sheathed at the bases 
petals variable:ii pumberi: ee 
