86 THE STORY OF PLANT LIFE 



The leaves are clasping, with a wavy border. The 

 juice is yellow. 



The flowers are scarlet, with black spots at the 

 base. The ovary is two- or three-celled. The style 

 has the stigmas bent back. The latter are opposite 

 the placentae or cushions on which the ovules, which 

 are numerous, lie. The capsules or pods are linear, 

 two-valved nearly to the base, long, narrow, and 

 bristly. The seeds are numerous, embedded in the 

 spongy septum, brown, with ridges, enclosing square 

 areas. 



The Red Horned Poppy flowers in June and July. 

 It is an annual or biennial, and the plant is from 15 

 to 18 in. in height. 



The conspicuous flowers render the Red Horned 

 Poppy suited to cross-pollination. They are pollen- 

 flowers, and in the absence of insect-visitors the 

 plant is self-fertile to its own pollen. The flower in 

 the Yellow Horned Poppy lasts two days and then 

 the petals drop. 



The long pods open by both valves and the seeds 

 are blown away by the wind. The pod itself falls 

 off when they are ripe. 



Glaucium phceniceum. — In Fig. 10 the leaves, 

 divided nearly to the base, clasping the stem, are well 

 shown, and the radical leaves are seen to form a tuft. 

 The flower is on a long stalk. The flower-hud is shown 

 with the sepals enveloping the petals. The characteristic 

 pod shows the terminal recurved stigmas. 



