Glattcium.] P AP AVER ACE jE. 19 



base. Seeds many, sunk in the spongy septum, testa pitted. — Distrib. 



Chiefly Mediterranean ; species 5-6. The dissepiment (formed by the 



placentas as in Cruciferce) is sometimes incomplete. — Etym. "yXavKiau, from 



the blue hue of some species. 



G. lu'teum, Scop.. ; leaves ^-.amplexicaul, capsule tubercled. 



Sandy sea-shores Shetland ; and from the Forth and Clyde southd. ; Ire^ 

 laid; Channel Islds. ; fl. June-Oct. — Glaucous, sub-hispid, annual, some- 

 times perennial. Stem 1-2. ft., branched, erect or ascending. Radical leaves 

 2-pinnatifid, rough with stout hairs ; lobes pointing various ways. Flower- 

 2-4 in. diam., golden yellow : peduncles short, glabrous. Petals in opposite 

 dissimilar pairs. Pod curved, a foot long, glabrous ; stigmatic lobes spread- 

 ing. — Distrib. Europe, N. Africa, W. Asia ; in trod, in U. States. 



4*. RCEME:RIA, DCs ' 

 Annual herbs; juice yellow. Leaves much cut. Flowers long- 

 peduncled, violet. Sepals 4. Petals 4. Ovary 1 -celled ; stigma sessile, 

 lobes 2-4 deflexed opposite as many slender placentas ; ovules many. 

 Capsule linear, 2-4-valved nearly to the base. Seeds many, testa rough. — 

 Distrib. Cornfield plants of Europe and W. Asia; species 2. — Etym. 

 J. F. Rosmer, a German botanist. 



R. iiyb'rida, L)C. ; leaves 3-pinnatifid, capsule 3-valved. Glau'dimn 

 viola'eeum, Juss. 

 Dry soil, Cambridge and Norfolk ;- (a colonist, Wats.) ; fl. May-June. 



— Habit of Papaver Argemone, glabrous or slightly hairy. Stem erect. 



Leaves 1- or 2-pinnatifid, segments tipped by a bristle. Flower 2-3 in. 



diam., violet-purple with a black disk. Sepals hairy. Capsule 2-3 in. 



cylindric, hispid above. — Distrib. Central and S. Europe, 



Order V. FUMARlA'CEffl, 

 Annual or perennial herbs ; juice watery. Leaves usually divided. 

 Flowers racemose. Sepals 2, small, scale-like, deciduous. Petals 4, in 

 2 usually very dissimilar pairs ; 2 outer larger lateral, but becoming an- 

 tero-posterior by a ^-twist of the pedicel, one or both gibbous or spurred ; 

 two inner smaller, erect, often coherent at the tips. Stamens (in the 

 British species) 6, in 2 bundles opposite the 2 outer petals ; anther of 

 central stamen in each bundle 2-celled, of lateral 1 -celled. Ovary 1-celled ; 

 style long or short, stigma obtuse or lobed ; ovules 2 or more, amplii- 

 tropous ; placentas parietal. Fruit a 2-valved. many-seeded capsule, or an 

 indehiscent 1 -seeded nut. Seeds albuminous, raphe sometimes appen- 

 daged ; embryo minute. — Distrib. Temp, and warm N. hemisphere, and 

 8. Africa ; genera 7 ; species 100 — Affinities, Between Papavera'cece and 

 Crusif'erce. — Properties. Astringent, acrid, and reputed diaphoretic. 



1. fuma'ria, L. Fumitory. 

 Annual, rarely perennial herbs, usually branched, often climbing. 

 Leaves much divided ; segments very narrow. Flowers small, in terminal 



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