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flowers ; filaments slender. Pistillate flowers with 12-15 abor- 

 tive stamens and a single globose ovary with a short style.* 



1. B. aestivale Nees. SPICE BUSH. A shrub, 5-15 ft. high, with 

 smooth bark and slender twigs. Leaves oblong-obovate, acute at the 

 base, pale and downy beneath, becoming smooth when old ; petioles 

 short. Flowers about as long as the pedicels, yellow, very fragrant. 

 Ovary about as long as the style. Fruit an obovoid, red drupe, about 

 I in. long, on a slender pedicel. Banks of streams and damp woods. 

 Twigs and leaves quite aromatic.* 



39. PAPAVERACEJE. POPPY FAMILY 



Annual or perennial herbs, often with milky juice. Leaves 

 sometimes all basal ; stem leaves usually alternate without 

 stipules. Flowers bisexual, regular or irregular. Sepals usu- 

 ally 2, shed as the flower opens. Petals 4-12, falling early. 

 Stamens numerous or 6 (in 2 sets), 4, or 2. Carpels 2-16. 



Fruit a capsule. 



I. ESCHSCHOLTZIA Cham. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves pale or bluish-green, 

 usually cut into very narrow divisions. Sepals united into a 

 pointed cap, which falls off in one piece as the flower opens. 

 Petals 4, orange or yellow. Stamens many, with long anthers. 

 Stigmas 2-6, spreading. Pods long and slender, grooved. Re- 

 ceptacle often surrounded by a rim on which the calyx rests. 



1. E. calif ornica Cham. Annual or perennial, with rather succu- 

 lent leafy stems. Flowers large and showy, yellow or orange-yellow. 

 Receptacle top-shaped, with a broad rim. Cultivated from California. 



H. SANGUINARIA L. 



Perennial. Rootstock thick, horizontal ; joints and scars 

 cf previous growths persistent several years ; juice orange- 

 colored. Leaves on long petioles, kidney-shaped. Scape 1- 

 flowered. Sepals 2, falling off as the flower opens. Petals 8- 

 12. Ovary 1 ; stigmas 2. Capsule oblong, seeds crested.* 



1. S. canadensis L. BLOODROOT. Leaves and scape with a bloom ; 

 leaves palmately 5-9-lobed, lobes rounded or toothed ; scapes naked, 

 nearly as long as the petiolts. Flowers white, 1 in. oar more wide. 



