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Leaves and capsules quite glabrous ; petals white pink or purple ; 



stigmas adnate to the top of the capsule 1. Papaver. 



Leaves and capsules spiny ; petals yellow ; stigmas radiating from the 

 top of a short style 2. Argemone. 



1. Papaver, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs with milky juice. Leaves variously 

 lobed or cut. Flowers on long peduncles. Ovary 1-celled ; 

 stigmas adnate, radiating. Capsule short, opening by pores round 

 the upper rim. Seeds small, pitted. 



PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 117 ; W. & A. 17. 



An erect unbranched annual, with glabrous glaucous semi- 



amplexicaul leaves, ovate or linear-oblong and variously 



toothed ; flowers white, red or purple ; capsule globose, 



smooth, up to 1 in. thick. 



Occasionally cultivated and found run wild. The Opium 



Poppy. 



2. Argemone, Linn. 



An erect, prickly annual with yellow juice. Flowers bright 

 yellow. Sepals 2-3. Petals 4-6. Stamens very many. Ovary 

 1-celled ; style very short ; stigma 5-7-lobed ; ovules many, on 

 4-7 parietal placentas. Capsule short, opening at the top by 

 valves. Seeds many. 



ARGEMONE MEXICANA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 117 ; W. & A. 18. 



A strong branched prickly annual, with sessile semi-amplexi- 



caul sinuate-pinnatifid leaves variegated with white ; flowers 



1-3 in. across, yellow. 



An introduced weed, found on roadsides, in waste places and 



fallow fields in all Districts. 



Family IX. FUMARIACEAE. 



Annual or perennial often glaucous herbs with watery juice. 

 Leaves usually decompound. Flowers irregular, bisexual, 

 racemed. Sepals 2, small, petaloid or scarious, deciduous. 

 Petals 4, in 2 dissimilar pairs ; 2 outer, both or only one gibbous 

 at the base or spurred ; inner smaller, often coherent at the tip. 

 Stamens 6, usually in two bundles opposite the outer petals ; 

 central anther in each bundle 2-celled, others 1-celled. Ovary 

 1-celled; stigma on a distinct style, obtuse or lobed; ovules 



