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HARDY PERENNIALS AND 



stamens are numerous and bright yellow. Though belonging to 

 the order of the Poppy, it is in many respects unlike it ; each 

 flower stem, which is 6in. high, springs directly from the root, 

 and only one flower is produced on a stem ; the leaves are also 

 radical, so that the plant is branchless and stemless ; the leaf 

 stalks are rather shorter than those of the flowers. The foliage 

 is of a slate-grey colour, prominently veined on the under side, 

 the upper surface being somewhat wrinkled ; the leaves are Sin. 



FIG. 81. SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS. 

 (One-half natural size.) 



across when fully developed, vine -leaf shaped, deeply and beauti- 

 fully lobed; their development is slow, not being completed 

 until the bloom is past. Both leaves and flowers are produced 

 in a curious fashion; for a time the flower-bud is compactly 

 enfolded by a leaf, and so both grow up to the height of 2in. or 

 3in., when the former pushes through, and soon swells its olive- 

 shaped buds. At this stage a good specimen clump is very 

 attractive, and is only more so when the fine blooms first open. 



