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THE PAPAVERALES 



owing to their fleshy rhizomes, and like many plants with storage 

 organs, flower very early in the spring. The flowers endure for 

 about two days, but the large-lobed leaves are conspicuous fea- 

 tures of the forest carpet for several weeks while they are manu- 

 facturing the food for the next season. The large leaves are 

 tightly rolled about the solitary flower and enveloped in a papery 

 sheath as they emerge from the soil. A juice, latex, is found in 

 the majority of the plants of this order, and in this example it is of 

 a blood-red color, thus giving the latin and popular name to the 



Fig. 308. Examples of the poppy family, order Papaverales: A, habit 

 of the bloodroot at time of flowering — r, rhizome; /, leaf folded about flower 

 stalk. B, leaf unfolded. C, section of flower, showing its hypogynous struc- 

 ture with numerous stamens and pistil of two carpels. D, flower of fumitory 

 (Adlumia) — s, sepal; p, inflated petals; lu, winged petals which conceal 

 the sporophylls. 



plant, Sanguinaria, or bloodroot. The flowers are of the simple 

 open type noted in the buttercup, having two sepals (a character- 



