62 PAPAVERACE^. Glaucidm. 



Shady woods, Western States ! May-July.— Sparsely pubescent when 

 young, at length glabrous. Upper segments of the leaves confluent; the 

 lower pair distinct. Flower bright yellow, an inch or more in diameter. 

 Capsule ovoid.— The floral leaves arc, we believe, always petioled; the peti- 

 oles sometimes longer than the leaves, sometimes shorter. The erroneous 

 character " foliis sessilibus" of Michaux has caused the introduction of a 

 nominal species. 



4. SANGUINARIA. Linn.j Lam. ill. 1 449; Nutt. gen. 2. p. 9. 



Sepals 2. Petals 8-12. Stamens 24. Stigmas 2, connate. Capsule 

 oblong and almost pod-shaped, acute at each end, 2-valved ; valves separat- 

 ing from the persistent filiform placentae. Seeds numerous, obovate, with a 

 cristate raphe. — An acaulescent herb, with an acrid orange-colored juice, 

 and a large creeping rhizoma. Leaves reniform, palmately 5-7-lobed ; the 

 lobes mostly sinuate, crenate, or repand. Scapes 1-flowered, each accompa- 

 nied by a single leaf. Flower rather large, white.*— Blood-Eoot. Bed-root. 



S. Canadensis (Linn.)— Michx. ! fl.l.p. 309; Bat. mag. t. 162; Nutt.! 

 I. c; DC. prodr. 1. p. 131 ; Bigel. med. hot. 1. p. 75. t. 7 ; Hook. fl. Bor.- 

 Am. 1. p. 35. S. grandiflora, Base ; Brit. fi. gard. (2. ser.) t. 147. 



Open Avoods, in light soil, &c. Canada ! to Florida ; west to the Missis- 

 sippi. March-April.— Scape 3-8 inches high. Petals oblong, attenuate at 

 the base. 



5. CHELIDONIUM. Linn. ; Gcurtn. fr. t. 115. 



Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stamens rather numerous. Capsule pod-shaped, 

 linear, 2-valved ; valves dehiscing from the base to the apex. Seeds many, 

 furnished with a glandular cristate raphe. — Perennial herbs, with a saSion- 

 colored acrid juice. Flowers small, yellow. — Celandine. 



1. C. majus (Linn.) : peduncles many-flowered ; pedicels somewhat um- 

 bellate; leaves pinnately divided, glaucous; segments ovate, crenately incis- 

 ed or lobed, the termirial one cuneiform-obovate ; capsules torulose. — Eng. 

 hot. t. 1531; Pursh, fi. 2. p. 365; DC. prodr. 1. p. 123. 



In waste places. Introduced. May-Oct.— Root fusiform. Leaves large, 

 pale-green : leaflets 5-7. 



6. GLAUCIUM. Linn.; GcBrtn.fr. t.llo. 



Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stamens numerous. Capsule pod-shaped, 2-valved, 

 2-celled by a cellular partition. Seeds many, ovate-reniform. — Biennial 

 glaucous herbs, with an acrid saffron-colored juice. — Horn-Poppy. 



* By a singular typographical error, the habit of the geims, in De Candolle's 

 Prodromus, is made to read " Herba Boreali- Americana succo sanguineo fcexa fnliis 

 longius basi cimealis, panicula laxiore cernua. — In Nova-Hispania." The latter 

 part of the phra?e belongs to Bocconia frutescens l3. on the same page. The mis- 

 take is inadvertently copied in Hooker's Flora Borcali-Americana. 



