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POrULAR FLORA. 



8. POPPY FAMILY. Order PAPAVERACE.E. 



Herbs with a milk-white, yellow, or reddish juice (colorless in Eschscholtzia), which is 

 bitter or acrid and poisonous, alternate leaves, and flowers remarkable for having onlv 2 



(rarely 3) sepals, whicli 

 fall when the blossom 

 opens, but 4 (or in one 

 case 8 or 12) petals, 

 which fall early. Sta- 

 mens many, on the re- 

 ceptacle. Pistil one, 

 compound, but almost al- 

 ways one-celled, many- 

 seeded, the seeds borne 

 on the walls or on pro- 

 jections from them (pa- 

 rietal). Eschscholtzia is 

 remarkable for its calvx 

 shaped like a pointed 

 cap or a candle-extin- 

 guisher. — In most cases 

 we have only one spe- 

 cies of each genus. 



275 275 



875. A nower-biid caBtin? itsculyi, 

 und, 27S, a flower of Poppy. 



277. Poii of Celandine open- 

 ing. 273. Krnme of tlia 

 same, uirneil flatwise, niid 

 seeds still on it. 



273. FIcuver-ljiul, &c. 

 of Es'.'hscholtiia. 

 280. The cap-slinped 

 oalvx fallen off. 

 281'. The pod. 



Petals 4, crumpled or plaited in the bud, which nods before opening (except in the Prickly-Poppy). 

 Ovary and pod incompletely several-celled, by plates or placentas projecting from 

 the walls and covered with numberless seeds. Stigmas making a flat 

 sessile cap. Pod hard, opening by pores under the edge of the cap of 

 stigmas, . {Pajx(ver) ^Fovrr. 



Ovary and pod strictly one-celled, opening by valves, and leaving the placentas as a 

 slender frame between them. Flowers yellow, rarely white. 

 Pod and leaves prickly. Style none: stigmas 4 or 6, {Argtmbne) Prick LY-PorPY. 



Pod bristly. Style present: stigmas 3 or 4, {StijUphorum) Celaxdine-Poppy. 



Pod smooth, slender (Fig. 277): stigmas 2, {Chelidunium) Celandine. 



Ovary and long narrow pod 2-celled by a thick partition in which the seeds are em- 

 bedded; stigma 2-horned, {Glaucium) * Horx-Poppy. 

 Petals not crumpled in the bud, which does not nod. 



Petals 8 to 12, narrow, Avhite. Pod oblong. Juice orange-red, (Sangtdnann) Bloodroot. 



. Petals 4, broad, yellow. Sepals united into a pointed cap'which falls off as a lid (Fig. 

 280, 281). Receptacle or end of the flower-stalk expanded and top- 

 shaped. Stigmas 3 to 7, slender, unequal. Pod many-ribbed. Juice 

 watery, colorless, but strong-scented, * Eschscholtzia. 



