POFPY FAMILY. 5o 



ESCHSCnOLTZlA. Sepals united into a pointed cap which falls off entii-e. Receptacle 

 or end of the Hower-stalk dilated into a top-shaped body, often with a spreading rim. 

 Stigmas 4-C, spreading, unequal ; but the plaoent.ne only 2. Pod long and slender, 

 grooved. Juice colorless. 



+<■ ■»+ Flower-bud generally noddinrj. 



STYLOPHOFvUM. Stigma :3-4-lobed, raised on a style. Pod ovoid, bristly, opening 

 from the top into :> or 4 valves, leaving the thread-like idaceiita' between tliem. Juice 

 yellow. 



CHELIDONH'M. Stigma -.'-lobed, almost sessile. Pod linear, with 2 placenta?, split- 

 ting from below into 2 valves. Juice orange. 



-I- -i- Pod becoming 1--ri -celled. 



+*• 7'rne herbs. 



GLAUCIUM. Stigma 2-lobed ; style 0. Pod- rough, linear, 2-eelled by a spongy false 

 partition. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Juice yellow. 



PAPAVER. Stigmas united into a many-rayed circular body which is closely sessile on 

 the ovary. Pod globular or oblong, imperfectly many-celled by the projecting placentse 

 which are covered with numberless seeds, opening only by pores or chinks at the top. 



Juice milkv. 



More or less woody. 



9. ItOMNEYA. Stigmas many, free; the ovary setose, and more or less completely sev- 

 eral-celled by the intrusion of the x-ovuled placentae, but becoming completely 7-11- 

 celled and dehiscing to the middle. Sejjals 3, with a broad, thin, dorsal wing. Petals G, 

 white. Stamens numerous, with slender filaments. Juice colorless. 



1. BOCCONIA. (Named for Bocconi, an Italian botanist.) % 



B. cordaia, Willd., from Cliina, is a tall herb with leafy stems and 

 round-cordale, lobed leaves which are thick, veiny, and glaucous, and 

 long panicles of whiti.sh or rose flowers in summer. 



2. SANGUINARIA, ELdODROOT. (Name from the blood-red 



juice. ) 2/ 



S. Canadensis, Linn., the only species ; common in rich woods. The 

 thick red rootstock in early spring sends up a rounded-reniform and pal- 

 mate-lobed, veiny leaf, wrapped around a flower-bud ; as the leaf comes 

 out of groiuid and opens, the scape lengthens, and carries up the hand- 

 some flower, from which the sepals soon fall. 



3. ARGEMONE, PRICKLY POPPY. (Greek : a disease of the eye, 

 for which a plant called by this name was a supposed remedy.) 



A. grandiflbra. Sweet. Hardy % Petals white, ll'-2' long; stems, 

 sepals, and pod smooth and unarmed (the latter rarely with a' few stiff 

 l)ri.stlos). Mexico. 



A. Mexicana, Linn. Mkxhvv I'. Stems, leaves, sepals, and pod 

 prickly ; ]>etals dull yellow or yellowish, 1' or less long in summer. Var. 

 Ai.niKLoitA has tlie flower larger, sometimes very large; white; l°-2'^ 

 high. \Yast(' places S. and gardens. Cult, for ornament. 



4. ESCHSCHOLTZIA. (Named for one of the discoverers, Esch- . 



srhnlt.-.) iV -}! 



£. Californica, Cham. CAr,ii<>i;M ^n Poppy. Common in gardens ; with 

 ]>ale, dissret( il leaves, and lmiL;-]M(luncled lar;:e flowers, remarkable for 

 tlie top-.shajied dilatation at tlu' base of the li.)wer, on which the extin- 

 guisher-sliaped calyx rests ; this is forced off whole by tlic opening petals. 



