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or cream-colored; stamens many, adherent to petals; stigmas 2-6, sessile: 

 pods long, cylindric, grooved, many-seeded. 



E. calif ornica, Cham. California poppy. Cultivated 'in flower-gardens: 

 stem branching, leafy: flowers showy and large, receptacle funnelform, 

 with a broadly dilated rim: pod long and slender. California. 



3. SANGUINARIA. BLOODROOT. 



Low, acaulescent perennial, from thick, horizontal, pointed and scarred 

 rootstocks, with juice red and acrid: in very early spring a naked scape, 

 carrying 1 terminal white flower, enfolded at first by long-petioled kidney- 

 shaped or cordate, glaucous, palmately veined leaf; sepals 2, soon falling; 

 petals 8-12, unequal, in 2 rows, not lasting; stamens many: fruit a capsule, 

 oblong, swollen, 1-celled, many-seeded, 2-valved, dehiscent at base. 



S. canadensis. Linn. Flower large, white, fragile, on a scape about 6 

 in. tall: glabrous and glaucous: leaves with rounded lobes and sinuses. 

 Common in rich, open woods and on sunny banks; early spring. 



4. STYLtfPHORUM. CELANDINE POPPY. 



Hairy herbs with yellow juice, and pinnately divided leaves: flowers 

 large, yellow: style 1: stigma 3-4-lobed. 



S. diphyllum, Nutt. Low perennial, usually with two opposite, pinnately 

 parted leaves on the stem; leaves often marked with white, 5-7-lobed: 

 flowers few, in umbels, large, 1^-2 in. across, clear yellow. Frequent in 

 rich woods in central states. May. 



6. CHELIDONIUM. CELANDINE. 



Rather weak, branching herbs; perennial: leaves alternate, pinnatifid: 

 juice deep yellow: flowers yellow, small, the bud nodding; sepals 2; petals 

 4; stamens many. 



C. majus, Linn. Along roadsides, about fences, as a weed, growing 1-4 

 ft. high: leaves thin, once or twice pinnatifid: flowers in loose umbels, 

 soon perishing, about %~% m - m diameter. 



XIX. FUMARlACELE. 



Smooth, succulent herbs with noticeably delicate, finely dissected, 

 or lace-like leaves, alternate or radical, exstipulate: flowers small, 

 irregular, racemose; 2 very small sepals, scale-like; petals 4, small, 

 partially united: 6 diadelphous stamens (2 sets of 3 each); ovaries 

 1-celled: fruit a pod, 1-celled, 1-seeded and indehiscent, or several- 

 seeded with 2 parietal placentae. 



A. Corolla 2-spurred at base, or heart-shaped: fls. pendent 1. Dicentra 



AA. Corolla with 1 spur at base. 



B. Pod slender, several-seeded: seeds arilled, or crested 2. Corydalis 



BB. Pod globular, 1-seeded, indehiscent 3. Fumaria 



