DICOTYLEDONS. 87 



45. PAPAVERACEiE. T^OPPY FAMILY. 



Herbs, with milky or colored juice ; leaves alternate, or 

 rarely a few of the upper ones opposite, exstipulate; flowers 

 perfect, solitary or in clusters ; sepals 2-3, caducous ; petals 

 4-12, deciduous, sometimes irregular ; stamens few or many, 

 hypogynous, filaments filiform ; ovaries 1 or many, usually 

 1-celled, many-seeded ; fruit a capsule. 



I. PAPAVER. 



Annual or perennial herbs, with milky juice ; stem erect, 

 smooth or his[)id, branching above ; leaves more or less lobed 

 or dissected ; flower buds nodding, flowers showy ; sepals 

 commonly 2 ; petals 4-6 ; stamens many ; stigma disk-like, 

 ovules many, borne on inwardly projecting placentae. 



1. P. soMNiFEiiUM L. Opium Poppy. Annual; stem erect, 

 l)ranched above, smooth and glaucous, 2-3 ft. high; leaves ol)long, 

 irregularly lobed or cut, sessile, clasping ; flowers nearly white with 

 a purple center, large and showy, on long peduncles ; capsule globose, 

 seeds minutely pitted. ]\Iay-August. About old gardens and waste 

 places. Cultivated in southern Asia, where the juice of the capsules 

 is dried to make opium. 



2. P. DUBiuM L. Corn Poppy. Annual; stem slender, branch- 

 ing, 1-2 ft. tall ; leaves pinnatifid, the lower petioled, the upper ses- 

 sile ; flowers large and showy, usually red ; capsule long-obovate, 

 glabrous. May-July. In cultivated ground. Both the species 

 named are often cultivated in gardens, and produce double flowers. 



II. SANGUINARIA. 



Perennial; rhizome thick, horizontal, joints and scars of 

 previous growths persistent several years ; juice orange 

 colored ; leaves on long })etioles, reniform ; scape 1-flowered ; 

 sepals 2, fugacious; petals 8-12; ovary 1, stigmas 2; caj)- 

 sule oblong, seeds crested. 



S. Canadknsis \j. Bloodhoot. Leaves and scape glaucous; 

 leaves pulmately 5-9-lobed, lobes rounded or toothed; scapes naked, 



