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the white juice with scarlet flowers. From their 
colour and the character of their seed-vessels it is 
probable that the yellow-flowered species are the more 
ancient forms of Poppy-worts. 
Probably the best known of the yellow species is 
the Yellow Horned Poppy (Glauciwm luteum), which 
is so striking an object in many 
places on the seacoast, on account 
of its large solitary flowers, which / 
are three or four inches across. of 
Its leaves, as commonly happens 
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with seaside plants, are thickened, (ye 
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and very handsomely lobed. and 
cut; they are of the pretty bluey- | [4 
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greyish-green colour that distin- | 
guishes many plants of the shore, n/ [ja 
and which is commemorated in \\/ & : 
the name Glaucium. As the “\) 
flower-bud begins to expand, the \ 
sepals are thrown completely off, 
and the petals are seen to be // | 
crumpled and creased. As soon HY NT 
as the stigmas have received Horned Poppy 
pollen, the petals and stamens 
also fall off, so that all these organs are said to be 
caducous. The petals form two opposite pairs, of 
which the inner ones are smaller than the outer. 
An indefinite number of stamens surrounds the 
long two-celled ovary, and the seed-eggs are 
attached to two projections called placentew, which 
are outgrowths from the inturned edges of the carpels 
forming the ovary. The two stigmas expand just 
over these placentze, and are easily fertilised by pollen 
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