POPPIES | gO 
milky juice which flows from their broken stems, one 
of the family being responsible for all the good and evil 
done by opium. Two, perhaps, require a special mention, 
the Yellow-horned Poppy and the Greater Celandine. 
The first is a lover of the sea-shore, where its glaucous, 
grey-green leaves and its spreading yellow flowers make 
it conspicuous in the summer. Its most eccentric feature 
is the enormous length of the seed-vessel, which begins 
to lengthen as soon as the corolla falls away, and pushes 
on and on until it reaches sometimes to eight or ten inches, 
looking like a leafless stem. 
The Greater Celandine is another example of the 
confusing character of our popular names, for it is not 
at all a close relation of | 
the well-known Lesser 
Celandine (which is a 
Buttercup), but is a true 
Poppy. Old cottage walls 
are a very favourite spot 
on which to look for it, 
and it cannot be mis- 
taken, for its deeply-cut 
leaves and its four yellow 
petals, with the pistil 
rising high in the middle, 
rouse suspicion at once, 
which is confirmed by 
the orange juicethat pours 
. from it when plucked. 
The very large cress family is noteworthy for its lack 
of handsome flowers, in spite of the number of its’ 
species, for most of them fertilise themselves, and, not 
needing to advertise their presence to insects, are content 
GREATER CELANDINE, 
