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2."^ G. phosniceum, with scarlet petals, black at the base and 

 hairy pods, only occurs occasionally as an escape. 



4. RcEMERiA (Violet Horned Poppy). — Annual herbs with 

 yellow juice. Leaves pinnatifid ; flowers violet, fugacious ; ovary 

 one-chambered ; fruit pod-like. (Name from J. F. Roemer, a 

 German botanist.) 



I. R. hybrida, with a 3-valved capsule, 2—3 in. long, occurs 



chelid6nium majus {Common Celandine). 



rarely in dry cornfields in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, and is 

 probably not indigenous. 



5. Chelidonium (Celandine). — Perennial herbs with yellow 

 juice. Leaves pinnate ; flowers yellow ; carpels 2 ; capsule i- 

 chambered, pod-like, 2-valved. (Named from the Greek chelidon^ 

 a swallow, because, according to Pliny, that bird discovered that 

 its juice was efficacious in restoring sight to its young when 

 blinded.) 



I. C. majus (Greater Celandine). — The only British species j 



