56 POPPY FAMILY. 



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

 rimmed. Var. Doug/dsfi 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. STYLOFHORUM, CELANDINE POPPY. (Greek: style-bearing; 

 a distinctive character.) If. 



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

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

 sinuate-lobed segments ; flowers few in umbels, 2' broad. Damp woods, 

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



6. CHELIDONIUM, CELANDINE. (Greek : the swallow ; its flowers 

 appearing with the swallows.) (f) 



C. majus, Linn. 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, HOKN 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'-! long. Cult, and sparing nat. 

 eastward. Eu. 



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



* Annuals, flowering in summer; cult, and weeds of cultivation. 



P. somniferum, Linn. OPIUM POPPY. Cult, for ornament from the 

 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. Rhaaas, Linn. CORN POPPY 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 ; flowering in spring. 



P. orientate, Linn. ORIENTAL P. Rough-hairy, with tall flower-stalks, 

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

 usually some leafy persistent bracts. Var. BRACTE\TUM has these 

 bracts larger, petals still larger and deeper red, with a dark spot at the 

 base. 



P. nudicaule, Linn. DWARF or ICELAND P. Rough-hairy, leaves all 

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

 orange, or white ; flower single on a hairy scape 6'-2 high. A widely 

 distributed alpine species. 



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

 omer.) A single species. 



ft. Cdulteri, Harvey. Smooth shrub, 6-8 high of S. California, or 

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

 ones pinnatifid, upper ones pinnately cut or toothed ; flowers very showy, 

 4'-6' across. 



