24 PAPAVERACEJE. (POPPY FAMILY.) 



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

 fleshy albumen. Perennials, yellowish-green and purplish; the hollow leaves 

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

 Scape naked, 1 -flowered : flower nodding. (Named by Tournefort in honor 

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

 account of it, to Europe.) 



1. S. purpurca, L. (SIDE-SADDLE FLOWER. PITCHER-PLANT. 



HUNTSMAN'S CUP.) Leaves pitcher-shaped, ascending, curved, broadly winged, 

 the hood erect, open, round heart-shaped; jftotver deep purple ; the fiddle-shaped 

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

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

 Eaton.} Peat-bogs; common from N. England to Wisconsin, and southward 

 east of the Alleghanies. 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 veiy unlike a pillion. 



2. S. flava, L. (TRUMPETS.) Leaves long (l-3) and trumpet-shaped, 

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

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

 Virginia and southward. April. 



ORDER 10. PAP AVERAGES. (POPPY FAMILY.) 



Herbs with milky or colored juice, regular /lowers with the parts in twos or 

 fours, fugacious sepals, polyandrous, liypogynous, the ovary 1-celled with 2 or 

 more parietal placentce. 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, anatro- 

 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. 

 H Pod partly many-celled by the projecting placentae, not valved. 



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



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

 like placentae, which remain as a framework. 



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



8. STYLOPIIORUM. Stigmas and placentae 3-4. Style distinct, columnar. Pod bristly. 

 4. CHELIDONIUM. Stigmas and placenta} 2. Pod linear, smooth. Petals 4. 



(--- Pod 2-celled by a spongy partition between the placenta;, 2-valved. 

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



* * Petals not crumpled in the bud. 

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



