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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



POPPY FAMILY. PAPAVERACEAE. 



Herbs with milky or colored juice including poppies, bloodroot, celandine. 

 A very small family widely dispersed in north temperate regions. 



Fig. 84 (77). 



Celandine. Chelidonium majus L. Perennial herbs, with saffron-colored acrid 

 juice, 30-60 cm. high leaves variously di\1ded and cut-lobed: flowers small, yellow, 

 often double; fruit linear-cylindric, opening by two valves, 2 5 cm. long. 



Naturalized from Europe. 



