CHELIDONIUM MAJUS. 
Sramens often indefinite or numerous, but some multiple of 
four, rarely polyadel phous. Anthers, innate. 
Ovary, solitary. Style, short or wanting. Stigmas, two, or if 
more, stellate upon the flat apex of ovary. 
Fruit, either pod-shaped, with two parigtal placenta, or cap- 
sular with several. 
Sreps, indefinite.or numerous, minute. Embryo, minute at 
the base of oily albumen. 
THE SECONDARY CHARACTERS. 
CueLiponium. Sepals, two, suborbicular. Petals, four, sub- 
orbicular, contracted at base. Stamens, twenty-four—thirty- 
two, shorter than the petals. Stigma, one, small, sessile, bifid. 
Capsule—silique—form, linear, two-valved, one-@elled. Seeds 
crested. . 
Calyx two-leaved, caducous. Corol, four-petalled, sige like. Capsule, one- 
celled, two-vaived, linear. Seeds crested, many. 
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THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERS, 
Cueviponium Masus. Leaves pinnate. Leaflets lobed. Seg- 
ments rounded. Flowers in umbels. : 
Umbels axillary, peduneled. Leaves alternate, pinnate, lobed. 
THE ARTIFICIAL CHARACTERS, 
Cuass, Potyanpria, Stamens, twenty or more, arising from 
the receptacle (hypogynous). Orver, Monoeynta. Ovaries, 
compound. Placente, parietal. Sepals, two (or three). Juice. 
colored. 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
CueLipontum is a genus of perennial herbs, furnished with a 
yellowish acrid juice, and containing probably but a single 
_ species, which is a native of Europe, but has become exten- _ 
mele naturalized in the United States and elsewhere. 
_ Common Celandine is a pale green, and fleshy perennial her- 
eecae plant, growing in meadows and waste places, by run- 
ning brooks, and on wet lands, flowerin shore the 2 
