rOLYANDRlA. MONOGYNIA. 9 



Herbaceous; leaves alternate, pinnatlfid, and spiny; 

 Sowers yellow or white, solitary, axillary and terminal; 

 capsule ovale, spiny. Sap, yellow. 



Species. 1. A. mexicana. In Georgia there is said to 

 be not merely a variety, but a second species of this ge- 

 nus with white flowers. 



^i. mexicana is also indigenous to the West Indies and 

 Mexico, there is likewise a second species said to be na- 

 tive in America; a third indigenous to the Fjrences; is 

 supposed to be a Papaver. 



563. PAPAVER. X. (Poppy.) 



Calix 2-Ieave(l, deciduous. Petals 4. >S'fi^- 

 ?na radiate. Caj;szt^e superior, 1 -celled, open- 

 ing by several pores situated under the persis- 

 tent stigma. Seeds very numerous and minute. 



Herbaceous plants, generally annual; leaves alternate, 

 mostly pinnatlfid, rarel}' simply lobed or crenate; flow- 

 ers terminal upon very long and' naked peduncles, colour 

 various shades of red or whit-, more rarely yellow, comi- 

 monly double or filled with petals in the gardens, and then 

 often particoloured. Sap lactescent, forming opium, yel- 

 low as in CheiUlonium in P. cambricum ^'liich in several 

 respects appears allied to Stylophorum. 



Species. 1. P. imcUcaxde. In Labrador. It is singular 

 to remark that the poppys so common amidst fields of 

 gi'ain throughout Europe have not yet made their ap- 

 pearance in this manner in America. The absence of 

 the Daisy (Bellis pere?ims^ is also equally remarkable, 

 amidst so many fields, pastures and wastes overgrown 

 with o'.her European plants. 



An European genus of about 12 species, with the ex- 

 ception of 2 in tiie Levaut and 1 in Barbary. 



364. SANGUINARIA. /.. (Puccoon, Bloodvvort.) 



Caiia; 2-leaved, deciduous. Petals S. Stigma 



sessile, S-groovcd. Capsule superior, oblong, 



1 -ceiled, 2-valvcd, apex attenuated. Recepta- 



des 2, filiform, marginal. 



Root tuberous, horizontal, giving out a reddish and very 

 bitter lactescent sap. Leaves solitary, radical, reniform 

 and lobed; scape naked, l-Sowered, sheathed at the base;- 

 petals vanable in number. 



