ORDER 9. PAPAVER ACE^E. *>J- 



ORDER IX. PAPAVERACE^E. POPPY-WORTS. 



Herbs with alternate, exstipulate leaves, and generally a milky or colored 

 juice. Flowers solitary, on long peduncles, never blue, hypogynous, regu- 

 lar, I/ or (/. Sepals 2, rarely 3, caducous, and petals 4, rarely 6, all imbri- 

 cated. Stamens indefinite, but some multiple of 4. Anthers 2-celled, 

 innate. Ovaries compound. Style short or 0. Stigmas 2, or if more, stel- 

 late upon the flat apex of ovary. Fruit either pod-shaped, with 2 parietal 

 placentae, or capsular, with several. Seeds GO, minute. Embryo minute, 

 at the base of oily albumen. Illust. 148, 344, 404, 405, 406, 463, 493. 



T Plants with a white jnice. Petals 4, crumpled in bud PAPAVER. 6 



T Plants with a watery juice. Calyx a mitre, falling off whole ESCHSCHOLTZIA. 7 



T Plants with a red juice. Petals 8, plane in the bud SANGUINARIA. 1 



1 Plants with a yellow juice. Petals crumpled in the bud. (*) 



* Stigmas and placentae 2 only. Capsule long, pod-shaped, (a) 



* Stigmas and placentas 3, 4, or 6. Capsule ovoid. (6) 



a Pod 1-celled, smooth. Lvs. pinnate CHELiDOJnrnc. 2 



Pod 2-celled, rough. Lvs. palmate GLAUCIUM. 3 



b Style distinct, but short MECONOPSIS. 4 



b Style none, stigma sessile ABGKMONX. 3 



t No petals. Juice reddish. BOCCONIA. 8 



1, SANGUINARIA, L. BLOOD-ROOT. (Latin sanguis, blood ; all its 

 parts abound in a red juice.) Sep. 2, caducous. Pet. 8 12, in 2 or 3 rows, 

 the outer longer. Stain, about 24. Stig. sessile, 1 or 2-lobed. Capsule 

 silique-form, oblong, 1-celled, 2-valved, acute at each end, many-seeded. 

 If A low, acaulescent plant, with a white flower, and a glaucous, pahnate- 

 veined leaf. Fig. 463. 



rS. Canadensis L. An interesting flower, appearing in early Spring : common in the 

 woods, fi'. From each bud of the root-stalk there springs a single large, glaucous 

 leaf, and a scape with a single flower. Leaf kidney-shaped, with roundish lobes 

 separated by rounded sinuses. Fl. of a quadrangular outline, white, scentless, and ol 

 ehort duration. The juice is emetic and purgative. 



/3, Leaf not lobed, margin undulate. Bainbridge, Ga., and elsewhere. 



2, CUELIDONIUM, L. CELANDINE. (Xehidoor, the swallow, being 

 supposed to flower with the arrival of that bird, and to perish with its de- 

 parture.) Sep. 2. Pet. 4, roundish, contracted at base. Stam. 24 32, 

 shorter than the petals. Stig. small, sessile, bifid. Capsule silique-form, 

 linear, 2-valved, 1-celled. Seeds crested, if Fragile, pale green, with saf- 

 fron-yellow juice. Figs. 344, 493. 



. ma jus L. Lvs. pinnate; Ifts. lobed. segments rounded ; fls. in umbels. By fences, 

 roadsides, &c. 1 2f. Fls. in loose umbels, yellow, very fugacious. May Oct. 



3, GLAUCIUM, Tourn. HORN POPPY. (PXavKov, glaucous, the 

 hue of the foliage.) Sep. 2. Pet. 4. Style none. Stig. 2-lobed. Pod 2- 

 celled, linear, veiy long, rough. or (2) sea-green herbs, with clasping 

 leaves, yellow juice, and solitary, yellow flowers. 



G. luteum Scop. Spar\pgly naturalized near the coast, from the Potomac southward. 

 2f. Lve. 5-7-lobcd. Fls. 2', of short duration. Pods 6 W. Juno Aug. 



