50 PAPAVBRACE^, (POPPY FAMILY.) 



ovary, crowned with a convex disk and rayed stigmas. (ci Ripe capsule of same, with 

 umbonate disk, {d) Capsule of P, hybridum, L, (e) Silique of Clielidonium. (/) The 

 same after separation of valves, (g) Loment of Hypecoum procumbens, L. 



•^ Flowers regular. 



1. PAPAVER. Ovary an incompletely several-celled capsule Stigmas 4-20. 



2. RCEMERIA. Ovary 1-celled, Stigmas 3-4 Fruit elongated siliquiform. 



3. GLAUCIUM. Ovary a silique with spongy partition, and 2-cells, Stigma 2-lobed. 



* * Flowers irregular, the similar petals opposite each other in pairs. Ovary 1-celled, 



4. HYPECOUM. Plants with orange-colored juice, and leaves dissected like those of 



Fumaria. 



1. PAPAVER, L. Poppy. KUshJcMsh. 



Sepals 2-B. Petals 4, rarely 5-6, crumpled in the l)ud. Stamens 

 very numerous. Stigma sessile, united in a flat 4-20-rayed disk 

 crowning the ovary. Capsules ovate club-shaped, or cylindrical, or 

 ellij)tical, with parietal placentae extending nearly to the axis, forming 

 several to many false cells, opening by pores or chinks under the edges 

 of the stigmas — Herbs, with generally milky or colored juice, the 

 flower buds nodding. 



* Biennials, Floicers dull jAnkish. DUlc angled. Stigmas 3-9. 



1. P. Liibaiiotictim, Boiss. (D Sparingly bristly. Stems low, 

 ascending, simple, 1-flotcered, or somewhat hranched Ijdoxo %^-fiowered. 

 Leaves pinnatisect with slioi% crowded, oblong, obtuse lobes. Buds 

 obovate. Capsule glabrous, obovate-oMong^ 0.015 m. to 0.02 long, 

 much broader thnn depressed-conical disk — Late Summer — Highest 

 summits of Lebanon and Antilebanon. 



2. P. Caueagicueii, M. B. (D More or less bristly. Stems 

 much hranched, many-Jlowered. Leaves bipinnatisect or parted, with 

 elongated, oblong or linear-lanceolate, acute lobes. Buds spherical. 

 Capsule glabrous, rarely somewhat appressed hairy, elliptical or oUong, 

 0.01 m. long, broader than conical or pyramidal disk — Late Sumfner 

 — Highest summits of northern Amanus, and Akkerdagh. 



3. P. liyoscyamifoliuiii, Boiss. et Haussk. @ Glaucous. 

 Stem thick, thyrsoid. Leaves short, somewhat leathery, sparingly 

 bristly, oblong-lanceolate, pinnatipartite, with short, triangular, slight- 

 ly dentate lobes. Buds ovate. Capsule glabrous, oblong, angled, 

 with abruptly tapering apex, and convex, 4-5-lol)ed disk, narrower 

 than capsule — Summer — Chalky soil, 300 m. to 600 ; Aspadrul near 

 Aintab, and northward. 



* * Annuals. 



t Gap>sule glabrous. 



\ Filaments awl-shaped. 



a. Stem leaves not clasping. 



4. P. rlijeas, L. Corn-Poppy. Shuqaiq un-nu'-mdn. Bristly, 

 rarely glabrescent. Leaves pinnately or bipinnately parted or cut, 

 with oblong-lanceolate segments. Petals deep crimson, usually broader 



