CHAP. I.] SARRACENIEiE.— PAP AVER ACEiE. 259 



ORDER X. SARRACENIE^.— THE SIDE-SADDLE 



PLANT. 

 There is only one genus in this order, which 

 can never be mistaken for any other, from the 

 pitcher-shaped petioles of its leaves, and its sin- 

 gular flowers. It is a native of Canada, but it 

 rarely flowers without a stove in England. It 

 is a dwarf plant, and it is thus easily distin- 

 guished from the Chinese Pitcher plant, which 

 grows eight or ten feet high, and which belongs 

 to quite a different order. 



ORDER XT. PAPAVERACE^.— THE POPPY TRIBE. 



This tribe contains several genera, all of which 

 have a thick glutinous juice when broken, 

 which poisons by stupifying. The genera most 

 common in British gardens are Papaver, 

 the Poppy ; Argemone, the Prickly Poppy ; 

 Meconopsis, the Welsh Poppy ; Sanguinaria, 

 Blood-root; Eschscholtzia ; Hunnemania; Roe- 

 meria; Glaucium, Horned Poppy; Chelidonium, 

 Greater Celandine or Swallow- wort ; Hypecoum ; 

 Platystemon, and Platystigma. Most of these 

 plants are either annual, or last only two or 

 three years, and they have all very handsome 

 flowers, w^hich are generally large and of showy 

 colours. 



