16 PAPAVERACE&. [MECONOPSIS. 



2. MECONOP'SIS, Figuier. WELSH POPPY. 



Perennial herbs ; juice yellow. Leaves entire pinnate or pinnatifidly 

 lobed. Flowers solitary or racemed. Ovary 1 -celled; style distinct, stigma 

 dilated or club-shaped radiating ; placentas 4 or more projecting parietal. 

 Capsule ovoid or elongate, with short valves below the persistent style. 

 Seeds small, testa rugose. DISTRIB. Mountainous regions of the N. hemi- 

 sphere ; species 9. ETYM. H^KW a poppy, and tyffis resemblance. 



1. M. cam'brica, Vig. ; leaves pinnate, lobes pinnatifid. 

 Moist glens in Devon, Somerset, York, Westmoreland, and Wales, ascending 

 about 2,000 ft., and Ireland ; naturalized in Scotland ; fl. June. Nearly 

 glabrous. Rootstock stout, branched, tufted ; roots thick. -Stem 1-2 ft., 

 woolly at the base. Leaves petioled, pale green, segments distinct or 

 decurrent, ovate-lanceolate, lobed and toothed. Flowers 2-3 in. diam., pale 

 yellow ; peduncles long. Sepals hairy. Petals orbicular. Style short ; stigma 

 capitate, 4-6-rayed. Capsule 4-6-valved, ribbed. DlSTRlB.'W. Europe, from 

 Ireland to the Pyrenees. 



3. CHELIDO'NIUM, L. CELANDINE. 



Erect, branched perennial herbs ; juice yellow. Leaves much divided. 

 Flowers yellow. Ovary 1 -celled ; style dilated at the top, stigmas 2 adnate 

 reflexed ; placentas 2, slender, parietal. Capsule linear ; valves tliin, 

 separating upwards from the persistent placentas and style. . Seeds with 

 a shining testa and crested raphe. DISTRIB. Europe and Japan ; species 2. 

 ETYM. doubtful. 



1. C. ma'jus, L. ; leaves 1-2-pinnate, flowers small. 

 Waste places, hedgerows, in the S. of England, elsewhere an obvious escape, 



probably naturalized only ; a denizen, Watson ; fl. May-Aug. Stem. 1-2 ft., 



brittle, sparingly hairy, leafy. Leaves membranous, glabrous beneath ; 



segments 1-2 in., ovate, toothed and lobed ; petiole dilated at the base. 



Flowers f-1 in. diam., in loose few-flowered umbels, yellow ; pedicels slender ; 



bracts whorled. Capsule 1 i in. , readily dehiscing, valves torulose. A variety 



occurs in cultivation with laciniate petals. DISTRIB. Europe (Arctic), 



Siberia, W. Asia to Persia ; introd. in N. America. 



A. GLAU'CIUM, Juss. HORNED POPPY. 



Glaiicous herbs ; juice yellow. Leaves lobed or cut. Flowers large, 

 yellow or purple ; peduncles long. Ovary 2-celled ; style short or ; 

 stigmatic lobes 2, deflexed, opposite the placentas. Ovules very many ; 

 placentas 2, narrow, meeting in the axis of the ovary. Capsule long, 

 narrow, 2-valved almost to the base. Seeds many, sunk in the spongy 

 septnm, testa pitted. DISTRIB. Chiefly Mediterranean ; species 5-6. The 

 false dissepiment of the ovary (formed by the placentas as in Cruciferce) 

 is sometimes incomplete, and 3 placentas occasionally occur. ETYM! 

 y\ai>Kioif, blue, from the hue of the plants. 



1. G. In'teum, L. ; leaves J-amplexicaul, capsule tubercled. 

 Sandy sea-shores from the Forth and Clyde southwards, and all round 



Ireland ; fl. June-Oct. Glaucous, sub-hispid, annual, sometimes perennial. 



Stem 1-2 ft., branched, erect or ascending. Jiadical leaves 2-pinnatifid, rough 



with stout hairs ; lobes pointing various ways. Flowers 2-4 in. diam., 



golden yellow ; peduncles short, glabrous. Petals in opposite dissimilar 



