ORDER 9. PAPAVERACE^. 31 



ORDER IX. PAPAVERACExE. POPPY-WORTS. 



Herbs with alternate, exstipulate leaves, and generally a milky or colored 

 juice. Flowers solitary, on long peduncles, never blue, hypogynous, regu- 

 lar, ?/ or V- Sepals 2, rarely 3, caducous, and petal* 4, rarely 6, all imbri- 

 cated. Stamens indefinite, but some multiple of 4. Anthers 2-celled, 

 innate. Ovaries compound. Style short or 0. Stigmas 2, or if more, stel- 

 late upon the flat apex of ovary. Fruit either pod-shaped, with 2 parietal 

 placentae, or capsular, with several. Seeds GO, minute. Embryo minute, 

 at the base of oily albumen. Illust. 148, 344, 404, 405, 406, 463, 493. 



T Plants with a white juice. Petals 4, crumpled in bud PAPAVKR. 6 



T Plants with a watery juice. Calyx a mitre, falling off whole ESCHSCHOI.TZIA. 7 



1 Plants with a red juice. Petals 8, plane in the bud SANGUINARIA. 1 



T Plants with a yellow juice. Petals crumpled in the bud. (*) 



* Stigmas and placentas 2 only. Capsule long, pod-shaped. () 



* Stigmas and placentae 3, 4, or 6. Capsule ovoid. (l>) 



a Pod 1-celled, smooth. Lvs. pinnate CHKLIDONIUM. 2 



rt Pod 2-celled, rough. Lvs. palmate GLAUCUTM. 3 



b Style distinct, but short MKCOOPSIS. 4 



b Style none, stigma sessile ARGEMONE. S 



t No petals. Juice reddish. BOCCOMA. 8 



1 . SANGUINARIA, L. BLOOD-ROOT. (Latin sanguis, blood ; all its 

 parts abound in a red juice.) Sep. 2, caducous. Pet, 8 12, in 2 or 3 rows, 

 the outer longer. Stain, about 24. Stig. sessile, 1 or 2-lobed. Capsule 

 silique-form, oblong, 1-celled, 2-valved, acute at each end, many-seeded. 

 U A low, acaulescent plant, with a white flower, and a glaucous, palmate- 

 veined leaf. Fig. 463. 



8. Caiiadensls L. An interesting flower, appearing in early Spring: common in tb<* 

 woods. 6'. From each bud of the root-stalk there springs a single large, glaucous 

 leaf, and a scape with a single flower. Leaf kidney-shaped, with roundish lobes 

 (separated by rounded sinuses. Fl. of a quadrangular outline, white, scentless, and ol 

 short duration. The juice is emetic and purgative. 



|3, Leaf not lobed, margin undulate. Bainbridge, Ga., and elsewhere. 



2. CHELIDONIUM, L. CELANDINE. (Xehidriv, the swallow, being 

 supposed to flower with the arrival of that bird, and to perish with its de- 

 parture.) Sep. 2. Pet. 4, roundish, contracted at base. Stam. 24 32, 

 shorter than the petals. Stig. small, sessile, bifid. Capsule silique-form, 

 linear, 2-valved, 1-celled. Seeds crested, if Fragile, pale green, with saf- 

 fron-yellow juice. Figs. 344, 493. 



<\ ma jus L. Lvs. pinnate ; Ifts. lobed. .segments rounded ; fls. in umbels. By fences, 

 roadsides, &c. 1 2f. Fls. in loose umbels, yellow, very fugacious. May Oct. 



3. GLAUCIUM, Toura. HORN POPPY. (PXavnov, glaucous, the 

 hue of the foliage.) Sep. 2. Pet. 4. Style none. Stig. 2-lobed. Pod 2- 

 celled, linear, very long, rough. or (2) sea-green herbs, with clasping 

 leaves, yellow juice, and solitary, yellow flowers. 



G. luteuin Scop. Sparingly naturalized near the coast, from the Potomac eoutliwtrd 

 2f LVP. 5-7-lobed. Fls. 2', rjf short duration. Pods 6 '. Juno Aug. 



