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Vor. II.] POPPY FAMILY. IOI 
2. ARGEMONE L.. Sp. Pl. 508. 1753. 
Glaucous herbs, with yellow sap, spiny-toothed leaves and large showy flowers. Sepals 2 
or 3. Petals 4-6. Stamens. Placentae 4-6, many-ovuled. Style very short. Stigma 
dilated, 3-6-radiate. Capsule prickly, oblong, dehiscent at the apex by valves. Seeds 
numerous, cancellate. [Greek, an eye disease, supposed to be relieved by the plant so 
called. ] 
A genus of about 6 species, natives of the warmer parts of America. 
Petals yellow; leaves blotched; flowers sessile or subsessile. 1. A. Mexicana. 
Petals white; leaves glaucous or green, not blotched; flowers peduncled. 2. A. alba. 
1. Argemone Mexicana I. Mexican or Prickly Poppy. (Fig. 1663.) 
Argemone Mexicana I,. Sp. Pl. 508. 1753. 
Stem stout, 1°-2° high, simple or spar- 
ingly branched, spiny or sometimes 
nearly unarmed. Leaves sessile, clasp- ~~ 
ing by a narrowed base, 4/-10’ long, 
2/-4’ wide, glaucous, white-spotted, 
runcinate-pinnatifid, spiny-toothed and 
more or less spiny on the veins; flowers 
yellow sessile or subsessile, 1/—3/ broad; 
sepals acuminate, bristly-pointed; sta- 
mens 4’/-5’’ long; filaments slender, 
much longer than their anthers; capsule 
1’ long or more. 
In waste places, New Jersey and Penn- 
sylvania to Florida and Texas. Also in 
ballast about the northern seaports. Ad- 
ventive from tropical America. A common 
weed in the tropics. The seeds yield a 
valuable painter’s oil. June-Sept. 
WA 
2. Argemone 4lba Lestib. White 
Prickly Poppy. (Fig. 1664.) 
Argemone alba Lestib. Bot. Belg. Ed. 2: 3: Part 2, 
132. 1799. 
Argemone albiflora Hornem. Hort. Havn. 469. 
1815. 
Argemone intermedia Sweet, Hort. Brit. Ed. 2, 
585. 1830. 
Similar to the preceding species but com- 
monly stouter and taller. Leaves pinnatifid or 
pinnately lobed, glaucous or green, notblotched, 
but sometimes whitish along the veins; flowers 
white, usually much larger, 3/-4’ broad, dis- 
tinctly peduncled; petals rounded; spines of 
the sepal-tips stouter; capsules 1/-134’ long. 
Prairies, South Dakota to Texas, Arizona and 
Mexico, east to Florida. May-Aug. 
Ss 
3. SANGUINARIA L,. Sp. Pl. 505. 1753. 
Rootstock horizontal, thick; juice red. Leaves basal, palmately veined and lobed, cor- 
date or reniform. Scape 1-flowered (rarely 2). Flower white. Sepals 2, fugacious. Petals 
8-12, arranged in 2 or 3 rows. Stamens «. Stigmas grooved. Placentae 2. Capsule ob- 
long, dehiscent to the base, the valves persistent. Seeds smooth, crested. [Name f-om the 
red color of the juice. ] 
A monotypic genus of eastern North America. 
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