Vor. II.] POPPY FAMILY. 103 
1. Glaucium Glatcium (JL.) Karst. Yellow 
Horned or Sea Poppy. (Fig. 1667.) 
Chelidonium Glaucium I, Sp. Pl. 506. 1753. 
Glaucium luteum Scop. Fl. Carn. Ed. 2, 1: 369. 1772. 
Glaucium Glaucium Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 649. 1880-83. 
Stout, 2°-3° high, rigid, branching. Leaves thick, 
ovate or oblong, 3/-8’ long, 1/-2’ wide, scurfy, the bas- 
al and lowest cauline petioled, the upper sessile, clasp- 
ing, all pinnatifid, the divisions toothed; flowers axillary 
and terminal, yellow, 1/-2’ broad; sepals scurfy; capsule 
narrowly-linear, 6/-12’ long, tipped with the persistent 
stigma. 
In waste places, Long Island and southward near the 
coast to Virginia. Widely diffused as a weed in maritime re- 
gions of the Old World. Adventive from Europe. Summer. 
6. CHELIDONIUM L,. Sp. Pl. 505. 1753. 
Erect branching herbs, with alternate deeply pinnatifid leaves, yellow sap and yellow 
flowers. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stamens. Placentae 2. Styles distinct; stigma not di- 
lated, 2-lobed. Capsule linear, dehiscent to the base. Seeds smooth, shining, crested. 
{Name Greek for the swallow, which appears at 
about its flowering time. ] 
A monotypic genus of temperate Europe and Asia. 
1. Chelidonium majus L. Celandine. 
(Fig. 1668.) 
Chelidonium majus Y. Sp. Pl. 505. 1753. 
Weak, 1°-2° high, sparingly pubescent. Leaves 
thin, 4’-8’ long, glaucous beneath, 1-2-pinnatifid, the 
segments ovate or obovate, crenate or lobed; petioles 
often dilated at the base; flowers 6’/-8’’ broad, borne 
in axillary pedunculate umbels; petals rounded; pedi- 
cels slender, 2’’-6’’ long, elongating in fruit; capsule 
glabrous, 1’-2’ long, tipped with the persistent style 
and stigma. 
Waste places, roadsides and even in woods, common 
in the East. Naturalized or adventive from Europe. 
Summer. Called also Greater Celandine, to distinguish 
it from Ficaria, the Small or Lesser Celandine. Old 
nantes Swallow-wort and Tetter-wort. April-Sept. 
7. BICUCULLA Adans. Fam. Pl. 2: App. 23. 1763. 
[Dicityrra Borck. Roem. Arch. 1: Part 2, 46. 1797.] 
[DIcENTRA Bernh. Linnaea, 8: 468. 1833. ] 
Erect, diffuse or climbing herbs, with dissected leaves, and racemose irregular flowers. 
Pedicels 2-bracted. Sepals 2, scale-like. Corolla cordate at base; petals 4, in 2 pairs, con- 
nivent, slightly coherent, the exterior pair oblong, concave, spurred at the base, spreading 
at the apex, the inner narrow, clawed, coherent above, crested or winged on the back. Sta- 
mens 6, in two sets placed opposite the outer petals; filaments more or less diadelphous, 
Placentae 2; style slender; stigma 2-4-lobed. Capsule oblong or linear, dehiscent to the base 
by 2 valves. Seeds crested. [Name from the Latin, double-hooded. ] 
_ _Agenus of about 14 species, natives of North America and western Asia. The original spelling 
is Bikukulla. 
Raceme simple; flowers white or whitish. 
Spurs divergent; inner petals minutely crested. 1. B. Cucullaria. 
Spurs short, rounded; inner petals conspicuously crested. 2. B. Canadensis. 
Racemes paniculate; flowers pink. 3. B. eximia, 
