GLAUCIUM.] PAPAVERACE^E. 17 



pairs. Pod curved, a foot long, glabrous ; stigmatic lobes spreading. 



DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa, W. Asia ; introd. in U. States. 

 5. RCEMERIA, DC. 



Annual herbs ; juice yellow. Leaves much cut. Flowers long-pe- 

 duncled, violet. Se2)als 2. Petals 4. Ovary 1 -celled ; stigma sessile, 

 lobes 2-4, deflexed, opposite as many slender placentas ; ovules many. 

 (Japsule linear, 2-4-valved nearly to the base. Seeds many, testa rough. 

 DISTRIB. Cornfield plants of Europe and W. Asia ; species 2. ETYM. 

 J. F. Rcemer, a German botanist. 



1. R. hyb'rida, DC. ; leaves 3-pinnatifid, capsule 3-valved. Glau'dum 

 viola'ceurn, Juss. 

 Dry soil, Swaffham Prior, Cambs and Norfolk ; a colonist, Watson; fl. May- 



June. Habit of Papaver Argemone, glabrous or slightly hairy. Stem 



erect. Leaves 1- or 2-pinnatifid, segments tipped by a bristle. Flower 2-3 in. 



diam., violet-purple with a black disk. Sepals hairy. Capsule 23 in., cylin- 

 dric., hispid above. DISTRIB. Central and S. Europe. 



ORDER V. FUMARIA'CE^. 



Annual or perennial herbs ; juice watery. Leaves usually divided. 

 Flmcers racemose. Sepals 2, small, scale-like, deciduous. Petals 4, in 

 2 usually very dissimilar pairs ; 2 outer larger, one or both gibbous or 

 spurred ; two inner smaller, erect, often coherent at the tips. Stamens 

 (in the British species) 6, in 2 bundles opposite the 2 outer petals ; anther 

 of central stamen in each bundle 2-celled, of lateral 1-celled. Ovary 

 1 -celled ; style long or short, stigma obtuse or lobed ; ovules two or 

 more, ainphitropous ; placentas parietal. Fruit a 2-valved many-seeded 

 capsule, or an indehiscent 1 -seeded nut. Seeds albuminous, raphe some- 

 times appendaged ; embryo minute. DISTRIB. Natives of the temp, and 

 warm N. hemisphere, and S. Africa; genera 7 ; species 100. AFFINITIES. 

 Close with Papaveracece, near Cruciferoe in the structure of the 'fruit of 

 several. PROPERTIES. Astringent, acrid, and reputed diaphoretic. 

 1. FUMA'RIA, L. FUMITORY. 



Annual, rarely perennial herbs ; usually branched, often climbing. 

 Leaves much divided ; segments very narrow. Flowers small, in terminal 

 or leaf-opposed racemes. Petals 4, erect, conniving ; 2 outer dissimilar, 

 one gibbous or spurred at the base, the other flat ; 2 inner narrow, 

 cohering by their tips, wjnged or keeled at the back. Stamens 6, in 2 

 bundles opposite the outer petals : one filament usually spurred. Ovary 

 1-celled ; style filiform, stigma entire or shortly lobed ; ovules 2, on 2 

 placentas. Fruit 1-seeded, indehiscent, globose. DISTRIB. Europe, Asia, 

 following cultivation ; species 6. ETYM. doubtful. The following species 

 are by many considered as varieties of one. 



1. F. capreola'ta, L. ; climbing by the twisting petioles, leaf-segments 

 flat, sepals ovate toothed below at least as broad and -3 | as long as the 

 corolla-tube, lower petal gradually dilated at the tip, pedicels longer than 

 the bracts, fruit globose contracted into a neck at the base not retuse. 



