POLTANDEIA. MONOGYNIA. 9 



Herbaceous; leaves alternate, pinnatifid, and spiny; 

 flowers yellower white, solitary, axillary and terminalj 

 capsule ovate, spiny. Sap, yellow. 



Species. 1. A. mexicana. In Georgia there is said to 

 be not merely a variety, but a second species of this ge- 

 nus with white flowers. 



A. mexicana is also indigenous to the West Indies and 

 Mexico, there is likewise a second species said to be na- 

 tive in America; a third indigenous to the Pyrenees; is 

 supposed to be a Papaver. 



363. PAPAVER. i. (Poppy.) 



Calix 2-leaved, deciduous. Fdals 4. Stig- 

 ma radiate. Capsule superior, l -celled, open- 

 ing by several pores situated under the persis- 

 tent stigma. JSeeds very numerous and minute. 



Herbaceous plants, generally annual; leaves alternate, 

 mostly pinnatifid, rarely simply lobed or crenate; flow- 

 ers terminal upon very long and naked peduncles, colour 

 various shades of red or whit?, more rarely yellow, com- 

 monly double or filled with petals in the gardens, and then 

 often particoloured. Sap lactescent, forming opium, yel- 

 low as in Chelidonium in P. cambricum which in several 

 respects appears allied to Stylophorum. 



Species. 1. P. mulicnule. In Labrador. It is singular 

 to remark that the poppys so common amidst fields of 

 grain throughout Europe have not yet made their ap- 

 pearance in this manner in America. The absence of 

 the Daisy {Bellis perennis') is also equally remarkable, 

 amidst so many fields, pastures and wastes overgrown 

 with other European plants. 



An European genus of about 12 species, with the ex- 

 ception of 2 in the Levant and 1 in Barbary. 



364. SANGUINARIA. L. (Puccoon,BIoodwort.) 

 Ca/ix2-leaved, deciduous. Petals S. Stigma 



sessile, S-grooved. Capsule superior, oblong, 

 1 -celled, 2-valved, apex attenuated. Recepta- 

 cles 2, filiform, marginal. 



Hoot tuberous, horizontal, giving out a reddish and' very 

 bitter lactescent sap. Leaves solitary, radical, reniforni 

 and lobed; scape naked, 1-flowcred, shcatlied at the base; 

 petals variable in num.ber. 



