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Species. 1. C. majtis. Naturalized. An European 

 genus containing probably but a single species. 



560. GLAUCIUM. L, (Homcd-Poppy.) 



Calix 2-Ieave(l, deciduous. Petals 4. Sfi^- 

 ma capitate, sessile, S-grooved, dilated. Si- 

 liquc superior, long, and linear, 2-celIed, 2 or 

 o-valved. Seeds many, punctate. 



Herbaceous; leaves alernate, simply or doubly pinna- 

 tlfid; flowers solitary^ axillary and terminal, yellow or 

 red; stamina numerous; sap colourless. In G. vioiaceum 

 the stigma is trifid, the capsule 3-valved, 1-celled, with 3- 

 filitorm receptacles affixed to tlie margins of the valves, 

 hence it approaches to the following genus. 



Species. 1. G. liiteiim. I follow ilr. Pursh in intro- 

 ducing this plant into the America Flora, but 1 have ne° 

 ver yet met with it. 



An European genus. 



561. * STYLOPHORUM.f CuELiDONiuM. m^ 



chaux, 



Calix 2-leaved, deciduous. Petals 4. Stijh 

 distinct; stigma capitate, 4-lobed. Capsule su- 

 perior, elliptic, 1-celled, 3 or 4-valve(l, valves 

 revolute. Recejjtade filiform, 3 or 4-parted,. 

 margimil and persistent, united with the style. 

 Seeds numer(jus, punctate and crested. 



Herbaceous perennials, somewhat resembling Chelido.^ 

 nhim majus, and also exuding on incision a yellow and^ 

 bitter resinous sap; leaves pinnatifidly lobed, mostly a 

 single opposite pair terminating the stem; flowers ag- 

 gregated, dicliotomal, peduncles very long and pendu- 

 lous in fruit, sometimes proliferous and producing a se- 

 condary pair of opposite leaves, subtending 2 or 3 pe- 

 dunculated flowers; flowers yellow. 



Species. 1. S. (Uphyllum. Chelidoninin (Jiphylluvu 

 Mich. 1. p. 309. Leaves sessile, lobes rounded and ob- 

 tuse, subundulated. Hab. In ttie shady woods of Ken- 

 tucky and Tennessee, also on the banks of the Missouri; 



f From, the distinct and conspicuous style which distin- 

 guishes this plant from all th« rest of the Papaveraceet , 



