POPPY FAMILY. 55 



i. ESCHSCHOLTZIA. Sepals united into a pointed cap which falls off entire. Eeceptacle 

 or end of the flower-stalk dilated into a top shaped body, often with a spreading rim. 

 Stigmas 4-6, spreading, unequal ; but the placenta? only 2. Pod long and slender, 

 grooved. J uice colorless. 



H- -H- Flower-bud generally nodding. 



5. STYLOPHORUM. Stigma 3^-lobed, raised on a style. Pod ovoid, bristly, opening 



from the top into 8 or 4 valves, leaving the thread-like placentae between them. Juice 

 yellow. 



6. CHELIDONIUM. Stigma 2-lobed, almost sessile. Pod linear, with 2 placentae, split- 



ting from below into 2 valves. Juice orange. 



-i- +- Pod becoming 2-oo- celled, 

 H. True herbs. 



7. GLATJCIUM. Stigma 2-lobed ; style 0. Pod rough, linear, 2-celled by a spongy false 



partition. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Juice yellow. 



8. PAPAVER. Stigmas united into a many-rayed circular body which is closely sessile on 



the ovary. Pod globular or oblong, imperfectly many-celled by the projecting placentae 

 which are covered with numberless seeds, opening only by pores or chinks at the top. 

 Juice milky. ^ ++ More or less 



9. ROMNEYA. Stigmas many, free ; the ovary setose, and more or less completely sev- 

 eral-celled by the intrusion of the oo-ovuled placentae, but becoming completely 7-11- 

 celled and dehiscing to the middle. Sepals 3, with a broad, thin, dorsal wing. Petals 6, 

 white. Stamens numerous, with slender filaments. Juice colorless. 



1. BOCCONIA. (Named for Bocconi, an Italian botanist.) 2/ 



B. cordata, Willd., from China, is a tall herb with leafy stems and 

 round-cordate, lobed leaves which are thick, veiny, and glaucous, and 

 long panicles of whitish or rose flowers in summer. 



2. SANGUINARIA, BLOODROOT. (Name from the blood-red 



juice.) ^ 



S. Canad^nsis, Linn., the only species ; common in rich woods. The 

 thick red rootstock in early spring sends up a rounded-reniform and pal- 

 mate-lobed, veiny leaf, wrapped around a flower-bud-; as the leaf comes 

 out of ground and opens, the scape lengthens, and carries up the hand- 

 some flower, from which the sepals soon fall. 



3. ARGEMONE, PRICKLY POPPY. (Greek : a disease of the eye, 

 for which a plant called by this name was a supposed remedy.) 



A. grand/flora, Sweet. Hardy ^ Petals white, 1^-2' long; stems, 

 sepals, and pod smooth and unarmed (the latter rarely with a few stiff 

 bristles) . Mexico. 



A. Mexicana, Linn. MEXICAN P. Stems, leaves, sepals, and pod 

 prickly ; petals dull yellow or yellowish, 1' or less long in summer. Var. 

 ALBIFL6RA has the flower larger, sometimes very large ; white ; l-2 

 high. Waste places S. and gardens. Cult, for ornament. () 



4. ESCHSCHOLTZIA. (Named for one of the discoverers, Esch- 

 scholtz.} 11 



E. Califdrnica, Cham. CALIFORNIAN POPPY. Common in gardens ; with 

 pale, dissected leaves, and long-peduncled large flowers, remarkable for 

 the top-shaped dilatation at the base of the flower, on which the extin- 

 guisher-shaped calyx rests ; this is forced off whole by the opening petals. 



