10 COMMON CANADIAN WILD I'LANTS. 



2. N. lu'teum, Smith. (SMALL Y. I'.) Flouting loaves usually 

 not more than two inches across, the sinus very narrow or closnl. 

 Flowers hardly an inch across. Sepals 5. Northward, in slow 

 waters. 



ORDER VII. SARRACENIA'CEJE. (PITCHER-PLANT F. ) 



Bog-plants, easily distinguished by their pitcher-shaped leaves, 

 all radical. 



1. SARRACE'BJIA, Tourn. SIDE- SADDLE FLOWER. 



S. purpu'rea, L. (PURPLES. HUNTSMAN'S CUP.) Hollow 

 leaves with a wing on one side, purple-veined, curved, with the 

 hood erect and open. Sepals 5, coloured, with 3 small bractlets 

 at the base. Petals 5, fiddle-shaped, curved over the centre of 

 the flower, deep purple. Ovary 5-celled, globose, the short style 

 expanding above into a 5-angled umbrella, with a hooked stigma 

 at each angle. Flowers on naked scapes, nodding. Bogs. 



ORDER VIII. PAPAVERACEJE. (POPPY FAMILY.) 



Herbs, with coloured juice and alternate leaves without 

 stipules. Flowers polyandrous, hypogynous. Sepals 2, cadu- 

 cous. Petals 4-12. Stamens numerous, anthers introrse. Fruit 

 a 1 -celled pod, with numerous seeds. 



1. CHELIDO'lVIUM, L. CELANDINE. 



C. majllS, L. Petals 4, deciduous, crumpled in the bud. 

 Juice of the plant yelloiv. Flower-buds nodding. Flowers small, 

 yellow, in a kind of umbel. Fruit a smooth 1 -celled slender pod, 

 from which the two valves fall away, leaving the parietal 

 placentas as a slender framework, with the seeds attached. 

 Waste places. 



3. SANGUINA'RIA, Dili BLOOD-ROOT. 



S. Canadensis, L. Petals 8-12, not crumpled in the bud. 

 Flower-buds not nodding. A stemless plant, with a thick rhizome 

 which emits a rc<t j/i/fr when cut, and sends up in curly spring a 

 single rounded, f>-7-M)rd, tliickish leaf. unl a 1 -llom iv; 

 Flowers white. Rich wood;;. 



