PAPAVERACE.E. 



SARACENIACE^E. 



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A small order of bog plants, remarkable for their pitcher-shaped, tabular and hooded 

 leaves which entrap insects. Key to genera and species, p. 83. 



On the left above is represented 



an opening bud of Eschscholtzia. 



The cap-like calyx has been split 



at the bottom and shoved upward 



by the expanding petals. Next 



to this bud is an open flower of 

 Meconopsis and one of its nodding buds. Behind the flower, and projecting above it to 

 the right, is a stem from which the petals have just fallen. The slender filaments bend- 

 ing to one side, as they often do, show the curious pistil, which in time becomes the 

 pretty fluted capsule seen below. To the right of the Meconopsis pod is the three 

 sided capsule of Platystigma lineare. The stem should have a few hairs upon it. The 

 two flowers with hairy steins, the nodding buds below, and the rough seed pod above, 

 belong to Platystemon. Observe the three caducous sepals, just ready to drop from the 

 opening bud. The smooth plant on the right is Platystigma Californicum. If you 

 choose you may call this the Smooth Piatystigma, and the other species, with the tri- 



