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^ATH THE CARPELS. 



THE POPPY TRIBE. 149 



" Their flowers are not alike, but their qualities 

 are similar, and the arrangement of their seed- 

 vessels is the same. Examine the carpels or seed- 

 vessels, and the stamens growing from beneath 

 them in the buttercup, and you 

 have the key to the relation- 

 ship, although there are many 

 trifling differences. Some of the 

 foreign tribes related to ranun- 

 culus produce splendid flowers, 



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especially the Magnolia tribe, 



which contains some of the finest trees and shrubs 



in the world. The poppy tribe also claims re- 



lationship with ranunculus : but its 



juices are milky, instead of watery, 



and the seed-vessels are not distinct, 



but grow together into one head." 



" Oh, yes," said Kobert, " I know 

 what poppy-heads are, for I helped 

 mamma to shake the seeds out from POPPY-HEAD. 

 those we had in the garden last summer." 

 " And mamma says that the Great Celandine, 

 which grows in hedges, and has those bluish 

 leaves, is related to the poppies, and is poisonous," 

 said Marv. 



