58 PAI'AVERACE^E. (I'OrPY FAMILY.) 



1. S. purptirea, L. (Side-saddle Flower. Pitcher-Plant. Hcn'ts- 

 MAx's Cup.) Leaves pitchir-shuped, ascending, curved, broadly winged; the 

 hood erect, open, round heart-shaped ; Jiomer deep purple ; the (iddle-shapcd 

 petals arched over the (greenish-yellow) style. — Varies rarely with greenish- 

 yellow flowers, and without puri)le veins in the foliage. (S. heterophylla, 

 Eaton.) — Peat-bogs; common from N. England to Minnesota, N. Illinois, and 

 southward east of the Alleghanies. June. — The curious leaves arc usually 

 half filled with water and drowned insects : the inner face of the hood is clothed 

 with stiff bristles pointing downward. Flower globose, nodding on a scape a 

 foot high : it is difficult to fancy any rcsenihlauce between its shape and a side- 

 saddle, but it is not very unlike a pillion. 



2. S. flava, L. (TiuMi'ETS.) Ltares lomj (IO-30) and trumpft-shapcd, 

 erect, with an open mouth, the erect hood rounded, narrow at the base; wing 

 almost none ; .//ofcer ijillow, the petals becoming long and drooping. — Bogs, 

 Virginia and southward. April. 



OuDF.u 8. PAPAVERACE.E. (Poppy Family-.) 



Herbs u'llh milky or colored Juice, regular flowers with the parts in twos 

 or fours, fufjdcious sepals, pobjandrous, hypofjjjnous, the ocary l-celled loith 

 2 or more parietal placentce. — Sepals 2, rarely 3-, falling when the flower 

 expands. Petals 4-12, spreading, imbricated and often crumpled in the 

 bud, early deciduous. Stamens rarely as few as 16, distinct. Fruit a 

 dry l-celled pod (in the Poppy imperfectly many-celled, in Glaucium 2- 

 celled). Seeds numerous, anatropous, often crested, with a minute embryo 

 at the base of fleshy and oily albumen. — Leaves alternate, without stip- 

 ules. Peduncles mostly 1-flowered. Juice narcotic or acrid. 



* Ovary incompletely several-celled by the projecting placentas. 



1. Papnver. Stijrmas united into a radiate crown on the summit of the ovary. Pod 



opening by chiulis or pores. PetJils crumpled in the nodding flowtT-bud. 



* ♦ Ovary strictly 1-celleJ. Pod opening by valves, leaving the 2-6 filiform parietal placcntaj 



as a framework. 



•^ Petals twice as many as the sepals, usually more or less crumpled in the flower-bud. 



2. Argenioue. Stigmas (sessile) and placenta 4 - 6. Pod and leaves prickly. 



3. Slylophoriim. Stigmas and |)lacenta3 3 - 4. Style distinct Pod bristly. 



4. Clielldoiiiuin. Stigmas and placentae 2. Pod linear, smooth. 



— — Petals 4-6 times as many as the 2 sepals, not crumpled in the erect flower-bud. 



5. Sauguinaria. . Stigma 2 gruoved. Placentiu 2. Petals white. 



* » * Ovary and elongated pod 2-celle(l tiy a spongy partition. 



6. Glaucium. Stigma 2-lubed or 2-horned. Petals 4. 



1. PAP AVER, L. Poppy. 



Sepals mostly 2. Petals niostjy 4. Stigmas united in a flat 4-20-raye(r 

 crown, i-esting on the summit of the ovary and capsule ; the latter short and 

 turgid, with 4-20 many-seeded placenta; projecting like imperfect partitions, 

 opening by as many pores or chinks under the edge of the stigma. — Herbs 



