SARRACENIACEiE. 



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Nutt. May— July. %^-Stem 12—18 inches high. Leaves large, smooth and 



glaucous beneath, with 5— 7 large lobes. JPZowers large, yellow. 



^ Stalk-leaved Meconopsts. 



4. CHELIDONIUM. I/mTt.— Celandine. 



(From the Greek x^^^^"") 3. swallow; its flowers appearing about the same 

 time as that bird.) 



Sepals 2, glabrous. Petals 4. Stamens many. Capsule 

 elongated, (resembling d, silique,) 2-valved, 1 -celled; valves de- 

 hiscent from the base to the apex. Seeds several, furnished 

 with a glandular crest. 



C. majus Linn. : leaves pseudo-pinnate, glaucous ; segments ovate, cre- 

 nate-lobed ; pedicels somewhat umbellate ; petals elliptic, entire. 



Fields and waste places. N. S. May— Oct. %.—Stem 1—2 feet high, 

 branched. Flowers yellow. Capsule about an inch long, narrow, sublinear. 

 Plant full of an orange juice. Introduced from Evirope. Common Celandine. 



5. PAP AVER. imTi.— Poppy. 



(From the Celtic Papa, pap; being added to the food of children to induce 

 sleep.) 



Sepals 2, concave, caducous. Petals 4. Stigma sessile, ra- 

 diate, persistent. Capsule obovoid, 1 -celled, opening by mi- 

 nute valves under the margin of the stigma. 



P. dubium Linn. : leaves pseudo-pinnate ; segments lance-oblong, pin- 

 natifidly incised, sessile, decurrent ; stem with spreading hairs ; peduncles 

 with appressed bristly hairs ; capsule obovoid-oblong, smooth. 



Cultivated grounds. Downington, Penn. Darlingt. May. (1). — Stem 1 — 2, 

 feet high. Flowers on long flexuous peduncles, pale red. Introduced. 



Field Poppy. 



Order X. SARRACENIACE^.— Sarraceniads. 



Calyx 4 — 6 -leaved, much imbricated, without a corolla ; or 

 consisting of 5 persistent sepals, often having a 3 -leaved invo- 

 lucre on the outside, and 5 unguiculate, concave petals. Sta- 

 mens numerous; anthers oblong, adnate. Ovary, 2 — 5 -celled; 

 style simple, truncate, or expanded into a large peltate plate 

 with 5 stigmatic angles. Capsule with 3 — 5 cells. Seeds mi- 

 nute, very numerous. — Herbs found in bogs. Leaves radical, 

 w^h a hollow urn-shaped petiole, at whose apex the lamina is 

 amculated, and which fits like a lid. Scapes each bearing ono 

 large flower. 



