PUMARIACEyE. (fumitory FAMILY.) 59 



less. — Annuals or biennials, with saffron-colored juice, clasping leaves, and 

 solitary yellow flowers. (The Greek name, yXavKiou, from the glaucous 

 foliage.) il 



G. LtJTEUM, Scop. Lower leaves pinnatifid ; upper ones sinuate-lobed and 

 toothed, cordate-clasping; pods rough (6-10' long). — Waste places S. E. 

 New Eng., Md., and Va. ; not common. (Adv. from Eu.) 



5. PAP AVER, Tourn. Poppy. 



Sepals mostly 2. Petals mostly 4. Stigmas united in a flat 4 - 20-raved 

 crown, resting on the summit of the ovary and capsule ; the latter sliort 

 and turgid, with 4-20 many-seeded placentae projecting like imperfect par- 

 titions, opening by as many pores or chinks under the edge of the stigma. — 

 Herbs witli a white juice ; the flower-buds nodding. (Derivation obscure.) — 

 Three annual species of the Old World are sparingly adventive ; viz. : 



P. soMxiFERL'M, L. (CoMMON Poppv.) SmootJi, glaucous ; leaves clasp- 

 ing, wavy, incised and toothed ; pod globose ; corolla mostly white or purple. 

 — Near dwellings in some places. (Adv. from Eu.) 



P. DtjniuM, L. (Smooth-fruited Corx-Poppy.) Pinnatifid leaves and 

 the long stalks brtstly ; pods club-shaped, smooth; corolla light scarlet. — Cult, 

 grounds, Westchester, Penn., and southward ; rare. (Adv. from Eu.) 



P. Arge.m6ne, L. (Hol'gh-frl'ited C.) Smaller, with finer-cut leaves 

 and paler flowers than the last; pods club-shaped and brisdy. — Waste grounds, 

 near Philadelphia. (Adv. from Eu.) 



6. A R G E M 6 N E, L. Prickly Poppy. 



Sepals 2 or 3, often prickly. Petals 4-6. Style almost none; stigmas 

 3 - 6, radiate. Pod oblong, prickly, opening by 3-6 valves at the top. Seeds 

 crested. — Annuals or biennials, with prickly bristles and yellow juice. Leaves 

 sessile, sinuate-lobed. and with prickly teeth, often blotched with white. 

 Flower-buds erect, short-peduncled. (Name from ^pyefxa, a disease of the eve, 

 for which the juice of a plant so called by the Greeks was a supposed remedy.) 



1. A. platyceras, Link & Otto. Setose-hispid all over; petals white, 

 li - 2' long ; capsule armed with stout spines. — Central Kan. and Neb., south 

 and westward. 



A. MexicXxa, L. (Mexic.\x P.) Flowers yellow, rarely white. — Waste 

 places, southward. July - Oct. (Adv. from tro'p. Amer.) 



Order 9. FU3IAKIACE^E. (Fumitory Family.) 



Delicate smooth herbs, with watery Juice, compound dissected leaveSy 

 irregular fiowers, ivith 4 somewhat united petals, 6 diadelphous staniPAis, 

 and 2-merous pods and seeds like those of the Poppy Family. — Sepals 2, 

 small and scale-like. Corolla flattened, closed ; the 4 petals in two pairs; 

 the outer with spreading tips, and one or both of them spurred or saccate 

 at the base ; inner pair narrower, and their callous crested tips united 

 over the stigma. Stamens in two sets of 3 each, placed opposite the 

 larger petals, hypogynous ; their filaments often united; middle anther 

 of each set 2-celled, the lateral ones 1 -celled. Pod 1-celled, either 1-seeded 

 and indehiscent, or several-seeded with 2 parietal placentae and deciduous 

 valves. — Leaves delicate, usually alternate, without stipules. Slightly 

 bitter, innocent plants. 



