54 PAPAVERACE/E. (POPPY FAMILY.) 



lobes of inner petal longer than middle one — Dry hill sides and 

 fields; common throughout. {H. grandiflorum^ Benth.) 



2. H. iuiberbe, Sibth. © Stems ascending or prostrate. 

 Sepals dentate. Inner petals wi^A, molet-'base,t\ie middle lobe loat-shapecl^ 

 with entire margin. Pods slender^ erect, curved, striate, scarcely swollen 

 at joints — Spring — Gaza and southward. 



Fig. 11 



3. H. parviflorum, Barb. © Glaucous, Stems 

 prostrate, often half buried in sand. Flowers minute. 

 Lateral lobes of inner petals violet, consideraUy shorter 

 than middle stipitate, cochleariform, fimhriate lobe. 

 Pod slender, moniliform, generally straight, often with 

 tumid joints, where stung bv insects — Early Spring — 

 Lesser desert. Both this and the last may prove on "• otV.TarS! 

 further study to be varieties of H. procunibens., L. mm, Barb. 



b.Ar\ inner petal; 



* * Exterior petals elli2ytico-rhomhoid, entire. Lobes ff*^ aTnaturai 



I 



a 



of leaves linear-awl-shaped. 



size. 



4. H, pendulum, L. © Salihh. Stem erect. Inner petals 

 somewhat smaller tlian outer, the middle lobe stipitate, nearly orMcu- 

 late, ciliate. Pods straight, refracted^ dhsoletely 2-6 rihbed, separating 

 late or not at all into joints — Spring — Sinai and Arabia Petraea; east 

 of the Jordan and Lebanon, to Aleppo, and northward. 



Order V. FUMARIACE^. (Fumitory Family). 



Tender., (jldhroiislierljs^ with watery juice, usually onuch 

 dissected leaves, irregidar flowers, with 4 free or somewhat 

 united jyetals, and 6 diadelphous stamens 0][>j)Osite the outer 

 petals. Corolla flattened, closed at apex ; the 4 petals in pairs, 

 the similar ones opposite each other ; the outer with spread- 

 ing tips, and (in ours) the upper only spurred at base ; the 

 inner narrower, with callous tips united over the stigma. 

 Stamens in two sets of 3 each, united by their filaments ; the 

 middle anther of each set 2-celled, the lateral 1-celled. Pod 

 either a 1-celled, 1-seeded, indehiscent nutlet, or a silique. 



1. CORYDALIS. Fruit an ovate, or oblong-lanceolate silique. 



2. CERATOCAPNUS. Lower fruits urn-shaped nutlets with a conical lid, upper oblanceo- 

 late capsules with an ensiform beak. 



3. FUMARIA. Fruit a globular, 1-seeded nutlet 



1. CORYDALIS, D.C. Corydalis. 



Upper set of stamens long-spurred at base. Stigma 2-lobed. Silique 

 many seeded; seeds arillate — Perennials, (ours) with tuberous roots^ 

 and terminal racemes of handsome flowers. 



