GREATER CELANDINE 



bloom and grows from one to two feet high. It is 

 weak and brittle and filled with copious, orange- 

 colored, acrid juice that stains everything it touches. 

 The flowers are half an inch or more across, and are 

 borne in small, loose clusters on slender stems. The 

 four petals are pure yellow and without lustre. The 

 buds nod, though the flower stands erect; two yellowish 

 sepals fall as the flower opens. The leaf is compound, 

 deeply cleft into five or more leaflets; the under-surface 

 has a whitish bloom, is strongly ribbed and veined. 



The seed-pod is slender and often two inches long; 

 it is two-parted and splits upward from the bottom 

 when ripe. 



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