156 XI. PAPAVERACE. “  _Meconopsis. 
longer; stamens 00; stigma 1—2-lobed, sessile; capsule pod-like, 
oblong, 1-celled, 2-valved, acute at each end, many-seeded.—% Juice 
orange red. ; 
S. Canapensis. Blood-root. 
An interesting flower of woods, groves, &c., appearing in early spring. 
Rhizoma fleshy, tuberous, and when broken or bruised exudes a blood-colored 
fluid, as also does every other part of the plant. From each bud of the root- 
stalk there springs a single large, glaucous leaf, anda scape about 6’ high, with 
a single flower. Whole plant glabrous. Leaf kidney-shaped, with roundish 
lobes separated by rounded sinuses. Flower of a quadrangular outline, white, 
scentless, and of short duration. The juice isemetic and purgative. Apr. May. 
2, CHELIDONIUM. 
[its departure. 
Gr. Nedtdwv, the swallow; being supposed to flower with the arrival of that bird, and to perish with 
Sepals 2, suborbicular; petals 4, suborbicular, contracted at base ; 
stamens 24—32, shorter than the petals; stigma 1, small, sessile, 
bifid ; capsule silique-form, linear, 2-valved, |-celled; seeds crested.— 
UA with yellow juice. 
C. masus. Celandine. 
Lws. pinnate ; /fts. lobed, segments rounded ; fis. in pea cs PE le green, 
fleshy herb found under fences, by road-sides, &c., arising 1—2f high. Leaves 
smooth, glaucous, spreading, consisting of 2—4 pairs of leaflets with an odd 
one. Leaflets 14—23’ long, 3 as broad, irregularly dentate and lobed, the par- 
tial stalks winged at base. Umbels thin, axillary, pedunculate. Petals ellip- 
. tical, entire, yellow, and very fugacious, like every other part of the flower. 
The abundant bright yellow juice is used to cure itch and destroy warts. 
May.—Oct. § 
3. ARGEMONE. 
Gr. apyepa, a disease of the eye, which this plant was supposed to cure. 
Sepals 3, roundish, acuminate, caducous; petals 6, roundish, 
larger than the sepals; stamens 00, as short as the calyx; stigma 
sessile, capitate, 6-lobed ; capsule obovoid, opening at the top by 
valves.— © Herbs with yellow juice. } 
A. Mexicana. Horn Poppy. 
Lvs. repand-sinuate or pinnatifid, with spiny teeth; ff. solitary, erect, 
axillary; cal. prickly; caps, prickly, 6-valved.—A weed-like plant, native at the 
south and west, § at the north. Stem 2—3f high, branching, armed with 
prickly spines. Leaves 5—7’ or 8’ long, sessile, spinose on the margin and 
veins beneath. Flowers axillary and terminal, on short peduncles, about 2’ 
diam., yellow. The juice becomes in air a fine gamboge-yellow, and is 
esteemed for jaundice, cutaneous eruptions, sore eyes, fluxes, &c. July.§ 
8. Fis. ochroleucous.—y. F's. larger, white. 
4. MECONOPSIS. Viguier. 
Gr. FNKWY, a poppy ; ois, resemblance. 
Sepals 2; petals 4; stamens 00; style distinct; stigmas 4—6, 
radiating, convex, free ; capsule obovate, 1-celled, opening by 4 valves 
at apex.—2| Herbs with a yellow juice. 
M. pipnytua. DC. (Chelidonium. Michz. Stylophorum. Nutt. 
Ivs. pinnately divided, glaucous beneath, segments 5—7, ovate-oblong, 
sinuate, cauline 2, opposite, petiolate ; ped. aggregated, terminal; caps. 4-valved, 
echinate-setose.— W oods, Western States! Plant 12—18/ high. Leaves large, 
8’ by 6’, on petioles about the same length; terminal segments somewhat con- 
fluent. Peduncle about 3’ Jong. Petals deep yellow. May. 
