24: PAPAVEUACEJE. (POPPY FAMILY.) 



in the axis, 5-valvcd. Seeds anatropous, with a small embryo at tho base of 

 fleshy albumen. Perennials, yellowishgreen and purplish ; the liollow leaves 

 all radical, with a wing on one side, and a rounded arching hood at the apex. 

 Scant' naked, 1 -flowered : flower nodding. (Named by Tonrnefort in honor 

 of Dr. &irmzin of Quebec, who first sent our Northern species, and a botanical 

 account of it, to Europe.) 



1. S. purpltrca, L. (SIDE-SADDLE FLOWEK. PITCIIER-PLAXT. 

 HUNTSMAN'S Cur.) Leaves pitcher-shaped, ascending, curved, broadly wing d, 

 the hood erect, open, round heart-shaped; flou:pr <!<'/> jmrjil''. ; tlie tiddle-sliajx d 

 petals arched over the (greenish-yellow) stvlc. Varies rarely with greenish- 

 yellow flowers, and without purple veins in the foliage. (S. heterophylla, 

 Eaton.) Teat-bogs ; common from N. England to Wisconsin, and southward 

 east of the Allcghanies. June. The curious leaves are usually half filled 

 with water and drowned insects : the inner face of the hood is clothed with stiff 

 bristles pointing downward. Flower globose, nodding on a scape a foot high : 

 it is difficult to fancy any resemblance between its shape and a side-saddle, but 

 it is not very unlike a pillion. (Illinois, Dr. Vasey.) 



2. S. llfsva, L. (TRUMPETS.) Leaves long (V-3) and trumpet-shaped, 

 erect, with an open mouth, the erect hood rounded, narrow at the base ; wing 

 almost none ; Jloicer yellow, the petals becoming long and drooping. Bogs, 

 Virginia and southward. April. 



ORDER 10. PAP AVERAGES. (POPPY FAMILY.) 



Herb* with milky or colored juice, regular flowers with the parts in twos or 

 fours, fugacious sepal*, polyandrous, hypogynous, the oc-ary \-celled with 2 or 

 more parietal placentcc. Sepals 2, sometimes 3, falling when the flower 

 expands. Petals 4-12, spreading, imbricated in the bud, early deciduous. 

 Stamens 16 -many, distinct. Fruit a dry 1-celled pod (in the Poppy im- 

 perfectly many-celled, in Glaucium 2-celled). Seeds numerous, anutro- 

 pous, often crested, with a minute embryo at the base of fleshy and oily 

 albumen. Leaves alternate, without stipules. Peduncles mostly 1-flow- 

 ered. Juice narcotic or acrid. 



Synopsis. 



* Petals more or less crumpled or corrugate in the bud. 

 <- Pod partly many-celled by the projecting placenta), not valved. 

 1 PAP AVER. Stigmas united in a radiate crown : style none. 

 +- - P6d strictly 1-celled, 2-6-valvcd ; the valves separating by their edges from the thread 



like placentae, which remain as a framework. 



2. ARGEMONK. Stigmas (sessile) and placentae 4-6. Pod and leaves prickly. 

 8. STYLOPIIORUM. Stigmas and piun-nt.-!- 3-4. Style distinct, columnar. Pod bristly. 

 4. CHEL1DON1UM. Stigmas and placentae 2. Pod linear, smooth. Petals 4. 



I- .- H- Pod 2-cellcd by a spongy partition between the placentae, 2-valved. 

 6. GLAUCIUM. Stigma 2-lobed. Pod linear. Petals 4. 



* Petals not crumpled in the bud. 

 6 SANGDINARIA. Petals 8 -12. Pod oblong, turgid, 1-celled, 2-valved. 



