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end, many-seeded. — H A low, acaulcscent plant, with a white flower, 

 and a glaucous, palmate-veined leaf. 



S. Canadensis L. An interesting flower, in woods, Can. and U. S., appearing 

 in early spring. Pvhizomo fleshy, tuberous, and -when broken or bruised exudea 

 an orarige-red fluid, as also does every other part of the plant. From each bud 

 of the root-stalk there springs a single large, glaucous leaf, and a scape about 6' 

 hio-h, with a single flower. Whole plant glabrous. Leaf kidney-shaped, with 

 roundish lobes separated by rounded sinuses. Fl. of a quadrangular outline, 

 white, scentless, and of short duration. The juico is emetic and purgative. 

 Apr., May. (Fig. 557.) 



(3. Leaf not lobed, margin undulate. Eainbridgc, Ga. 



2. CHELIDfJNIUM, L. Celandine. (Gr. %eXi5uv, &o swalWj 



being supposed to flower with the arrival of that bird, and lo perish 

 with its departure.) Sepals 2, suborbicular ; petals 4, suborbicular, 

 contracted at base ; stamens 24 — 32, shorter than the petals ; stigma 1, 

 email, sessile, bifid ; capsule siliquc-form, linear, 2-valved, 1-celled ; 

 seeds crested. — ^ Fragile, pale green, with saffron yellow juice. 



C. majus L. Lvs. pinnate; lfts. lobed, segments rounded; fls. in umbels. — By 

 roadsides, fences, etc., arising 1 — 2f high. Lvs. smooth, glaucous, spreading, 

 consisting of 2 — 4 pair3 of leaflets with an odd one. Lfts. \\ — 2 \' long, § as 

 broad, irregularly dentate and lobed, the partial stalks winged at base. Umbels 

 thin, axillary, pedunculate. Petals elliptical, entire, yellow, and very fugacious, 

 like every other part of the flower. The abundant bright yellow juico h used to 

 cure itch and destroy warts. May — Oct. § Eur. 



3. GLA.0CIUM, Tourn. Horn Poppy. (Gr. yXavubv, glaucous, the 

 hue of the foliage.) Sepals 2 ; petals 4 ; stamens co ; style none, 

 stigma 2-lobed; ped. 2-ccllcd, linear, very long, rough. — (7) or © sea- 

 green herbs, with clasping lvs., yellow juice, and solitary, yellow fls. 



G. luteum Scop. Sparingly naturalized near the coast, from the Potomac south- 

 ward. About 2f high, covered with a glaucous bloom. St. glabrous. Lvs. 

 ropandly 5 — 7 -lobed, clasping so as to appear perfoliate. Fls. 2' broad, of short 

 duration, but many in succession, succeeded by a horn-shaped trait, which is 

 rough with tubercles, and 6 — 9' in length. Ju. — Aug. § 



4. ARGEMONE, L. Prickly Poppy. (Gr. apycaa, a disease of tho 

 eye, which this plant was supposed to cure.) Sepals 2 or 3, roundish, 

 acuminate, caducous; petals 4 or G, roundish, larger than the sepals; 

 stamens oo, stigma sessile, capitate, 4 or G-rayed ; capsule ovoid, prickly, 

 opening at the top by valves. — CD Herbs with yellow juice, spinous- 

 pinnatifid lvs., and showy fls. 



A. Mexicana L. Cal prickly ; caps, prickly, G-valved. — A -weed-like plant, nativo 

 at the South and West, g at tho North. St. 2 — 3f high, branching, armed with 

 prickly spines. Lvs. 5 — 7' or 8' long, sessile, spinous on the margin and veins 

 beneath. Fls. axillary and terminal, on short peduncles, 2 — ?>' diam., yellow. 

 The juice becomes ia air a lino gamboge-yellow, and is esteemed for jaundice, 

 cutaneous eruptions, soro eyes, fluxes, etc. July. — Varieties occur with ochro- 

 loucous fls. and with large white fls. (N". Car. Curtis.) 



5. MECQUOPSIS, Viguier. Yellow Poppy. (Gr. (ifjiCMV, a poppy; 

 enpic;, resemblance.) Sepals 2, hirsute; petals 4 ; stamens oo ; style con- 

 spicuous; stigmas 4 — 6, radiating, convex, free; capsule ovoid, 1-celled, 

 opening by four valves. — U Herbs with a yellow juice, pinnatcly divided 

 lvs., and yellow fls. 



