112 PAPAVERACEAE. 



leaflets evergreen, 2-5 cm. long, ovate, obtuse or acute, pale or glaucous, not 

 shining, sinuately dentate with numerous spinulose teeth; racemes few, ter- 

 minal; berries blackish with a bloom, sour. Common in gravelly or stony 

 ground. 



Family 40. PAPAVERACEAE. POPPY FAMILY, 



Herbs with a milky or watery juice; leaves alternate, simple 

 or compound, without stipules; flowers perfect, regular or ir- 

 regular, the parts in twos or fours; sepals 2 ; petals 4-12, separate 

 or somewhat united; stamens 6, diadelphous, or numerous and 

 distinct; ovary 1-celled with 2 or more parietal placentae; fruit 

 a dry one-called pod with numerous seeds. 



Corolla 2-spurred at the base. 153. BIKUKULLA, 112. 



Corolla 1-spurred at the base. 154. CAPNOIDES, 112. 



153. BIKUKULLA. 



Erect or diffuse glabrous perennial herbs; leaves ternately 

 compound or dissected ; flowers in racemes or panicles, irregular, 

 nodding; pedicels 2-bracted; sepals 2, scale-like; petals slightly 

 united into a 2-spurred or swollen nectariferous often withering- 

 persistent corolla; stamens 6, in two sets, opposite the outer 

 petals; placentae 2; style slender; capsule oblong or linear, 

 2-valved. 



Bikukulla cucullaria (L.) Millspaugh. Dutchman's Breeches. Glabrous 

 throughout; rootstock short, covered with grain-like tubers; leaves all basal, 

 twice-ternately compound; ultimate divisions narrow, acute; scapes exceeding 

 the leaves, bearing a one-sided raceme of 4-10 nodding flowers; corolla pinkish, 

 yellow at the summit, the blunt spurs widely diverging, as long as the body of 

 the corolla. Moist copses, blooming in early spring. 



154. CAPNOIDES. 



Biennial erect pale or glaucous herbs; leaves radical and 

 cauline, decompound; flowers in racemes; sepals 2, small; petals 

 4, slightly united to a 1-spurred corolla; inner petals narrow, 

 keeled; stamens 6, in two sets, opposite the outer petals; pla- 

 centae 2; style entire, dilated or lobed; capsule oblong or linear, 

 2-valved. 



Capnoides aureum (Willd.) Kuntze. Squirrel Corn. Glabrous, the branched 

 stems decumbent, 30-50 cm. long; leaves bipinnately compound, pale and 

 glaucous; ultimate segments cuneate-obovate, 3-5-lobed; flowers golden 

 yellow, 2-2.5 cm. long, in short racemes; spur blunt, shorter than the body; 

 capsule torulose, long-beaked, 2-3 cm. long; seeds black, very shiny. Near 

 Wawawai and Lewiston. 



