5() POPI'V FAMILY. 



The latter are bright orange-yellow, and the top of the receptacle is broad- 

 -~-_^ riuiiued. \.\'ar. Dougl&sii wants this rim, and its petals are pure yellow, 

 or sometimes white ; but the sorts are much mixed in the gardens ; and 

 there are smaller varieties under different names. 



5. STYLOPHORUM, CELANDINE POPPY. (Grea^i: style-hearing ; 

 a tlistinctive character.) 2/ 



S. diphyllum, Nutt. Low, with stems naked below, with usually 2 op- 

 posite leaves above ; leaves whiti-sh beneath, pinnately parted into 5-7 

 sinuate-lobed segments; flowers few in umbels, '1' brr)ad. Damp woods, 

 W. Penn. to Wise, and Tenn. May. 



6. CHELIDONIUM. CELANDINE. (Greek : i/te s<'-«/Zo?o; its flowers 

 appearing with the swallows.) (|) 



C. majus, Lmn. l°-4° high ; branching, with pinnate or twice pinna- 

 tifid and toothed or cut leaves, and small yellow flowers in a sort of umbel, 

 all summer; old gardens and moist waste places. Eu. 



7. GLAUCIUM, HORN POPPY. (Greek: referring to the glaucous 



herbage.) ® (2) 



G. luteum. Scop. Stem l°-5° high, stout, glaucous, and hairy ; leaves 

 thickish, lower bipinnatifid, upper sinuate-lobed, clasping ; flowers soli- 

 tary, terminal, golden yellow ; pod 6'-l" long. Cult, and sparing nat. 

 eastward. Eu. 



8. PAP AVER, POPPY. (Name obscure, ancient.) 



* Amiuals, flowering in summer; cult, and weeds of ruJtivntion. 



P. somniferum, Linn. Opium Poppy. Cult, for ornament from tlie 

 Old World (especially double-flowered varieties), and for medical uses. 

 Smooth, glaucous, with clasping and wavy leaves, and white or purple 

 flowers, which are often much doubled and fringed. Pod large, short- 

 oblong. 



P. Rhceas, Linn. Coim Poppv of Eu. Low, bristly, with almost pin- 

 nate leaves, and deep red or scarlet flowers with a dark eye, or, when 

 double, of various colors ; pod small, obovate. 



* * Perennial; cult, for ornament ; flovcring in .spring. 



P. orientale, Linn. Ohikntal P. Rough-hairy, with tall flower-stalks, 

 almost pinnate leaves, and a very large, deep-red flower, under which are 

 usually .some leafy persi.stent bracts. Var. ni; xctkatim has these 

 bracts larger, petals still larger and deeper n il, with n dark spot at the 

 base. 



P. nudicaOle, Linn. Dw.xkk or Iceland P. Rough-hairy, leaves all 

 radical, oljjong-spatulate or obovate in outline, pinnatifid ; petals yellow, 

 orange, or wliite ; flower single on a hairy scape 0'-2° high. A widely 

 distributed alpine species. 



9. ROMNEYA. (Named for T. Romney Robinson] an Irish astron- 

 omer.) A single species. 



R. Cbulteri, Harvey. Smooth shrub, O'^—S^ high of S. California, or 

 nearly herbaceous in cultivation E. ; leaves petioled, glaucous, the lower 

 ones ])innatifid, upper ones pinnately cut or toothed ; flowers very showy, 

 4'-()' across. 



