4d THE POPPY FAMILY. 



A genus of two or three species, from the east Mediterranean region, 

 perhaps all varieties of one. 



1. R. hybrids, DC. (fig. 43). Common /?. An annual very much 

 resembling Papaver Argemone in habit and foliage, and in its pale red- 

 purplish flowers, but differing widely in its linear capsule, 1 J to 2 or 3 

 inches long, bearing a few erect, stiff hairs, and not divided into cells 

 inside. 



A Mediterranean species, appearing occasionally as a cornfield weed 

 in central Europe, and established as such in Norfolk and Cambridge- 

 shire. PL with the corn. 



V. GLAUCIUM. GLAUCIUM. 



Ovary linear, contracted ai the top into a 2-lobed stigma. Capsule 

 linear, opening in 2 valves, leaving 2 free linear placentas, forming a 

 thin, dry, spongy substance, in which the seeds are more or less im- 

 bedded. 



The very few species comprised in the genus besides the British one 

 are from the Mediterranean region. 



1. O. luteum, Scop. (fig. 44). Horned Popw, Sea Poppy. A. stout 

 annual, with spreading branches, very glaucous in all its parts. Leaves 

 thick, the radical ones stalked, pinnately lobed or divided, the lobes 

 ovate or lanceolate, sinuate or lobed, rough with short thick hairs, the 

 upper ones shorter, broader, less divided, and smoother. Flowers on 

 short peduncles, large and yellow, the petals very fugacious. Pods 6 

 to 10 or 12 inches long, crowned by the spreading lobes of the stigma, 



On sandy seashores, common all round the Mediterranean, and up 

 the western coast of Europe to Scandinavia. Frequent on the coasts 

 of England and Ireland, but decreasing much in Scotland. PI. 

 rummer. 



V. FUMARIACE^:. THE FUMITORY FAMILY. 



Delicate glabrous herbs, either annual or with a perennial 

 rootstock ; the leaves much divided into distinct segments, and 

 no stipules. Flowers very irregular. Sepals 2, small and 

 scale-like. Petals 4, in two pairs, the two outer united at the 

 ba?e and often one or both spurred; the two inner narrow, 

 their crested tips united over the stigma. Stamens 6, hypo- 

 gynous, united into 2 sets of 3 each, the middle anther of each 

 set having 2 cells, the lateral ones 1 cell each. Ovary of a 

 single cell, with 2 placentas and several ovules, at least in a 

 very young stage. Fruit a 1-seeded nut, or a pod with several 

 seeds. Embryo small, at the base of the albumen. 



A small family, spread over the temperate regions of the northern 

 hemisphere, scarcely penetrating into the tropics, but reappearing in 

 southern Africa. It is now generally referred as a tribe to Papavcracete, 

 with which it agrees in the parts of the flower being in twos and in the 

 Structure of the ovary, but it differs so strikingly from the British 



