POPPY FAMILY 200 
Plants with watery juice. 
Sepals 4 or more, equal, 
Ilowers symmetrical, 
Stamens 6, unequal, 4 long, 2 short CRUCIFERAE 
Stamens 6 to many, equal . CAPPARIDACEAE 
Flowers unsymmetrical, . 
Stamens 3 to many . . . . RESEDACEAE 
Famity I.—PAPAVERACEAE, '1rm Poppy Faminy 
Flowers regular; fruit a capsule consisting usually of several 
conerescent carpels separated by their partitions into cells or of 
an elongated pod. All the species have milky juice, Leaves 
alternate or directly from the root, deeply lobed or finely dis 
sected. Sepals 2 (in Argemone 3), dropping as the flower ex- 
pands. Petals 4 to 6, or more, Stamens generally numerous, 
below, and encircling the ovary. 
1, PAPAVER, lL. 
Smooth or hairy herbs with abundant milky sap. Leaves deeply eut 
or lobed, Sepals 2, falling as the flower expands, Vetala 4 to 6, Capsule 
plobe-formed with a broad flattened or convex cap-like cover, the stigma. 
1. P. Rhoeas, lL. VFienn on Conn Porry, Erect, 1 to 3 ft. high, 
hairy, lower leaves with Jeaf-stalks. Vlowers searlet, Capsule globose, 
smooth, Introduced, This is the field poppy which sprinkles the oat 
and wheat fields of Mngland and the continent with bright searlet 
blossoms, 
2. P. somniferum, l. (Vig. 3, pl. 52.) Ganpun Poppy, Escaped 
from gardens; | to 3 ft, high, Wlower bluishewhite, Leaves clasping 
by a heart-shaped base, Rare except in gardens, but in a few localities 
apparently naturalized, 
3. P. Argemone, lL. (Vig. 2, pl. 52.) Rovan-rnvurren Porry, A 
slender plant occasionally found in waste grounds, Stem 1 to 2 ft. high, 
covered with soft hairs. Leaves rather finely cut into feather-formed 
segments, the lower on slender leaf-stalks, the upper without lealwtalkea. 
Flower ved, usually with a dark center, A plant offen seen in grain 
fields in Kurope, only sparingly introduced here, 
2. ARGEMONE, L. 
Smooth plants; milk yellow. Sepala 3; petals 6. Leaves apiny toothed; 
flowers showy. Stamens numerous, 
A. mexicana, L. (Fig. 1, pl. 52.) Mexican Porry. Stem 1 to 2 
ft, high. Leaves long with many deep sinuses and prickles resembling 
those of the thistle. In waste places. Introduced, June-Sept. 
