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HORNED-POPPY, (Glaucium.) Capsule of two cells, opening 



by valves. 

 CELANDINE, (Chelidonium.) Capsule of one cell, opening by 



valves. 



** Petals more than four ; calyx of three, four, or five leaves. 

 ROCK ROSE, (Helianthemum.) Petals five ; cap. three-valved. 

 WATER LILY, (Nymphaa. Nuphar.) Petals numerous ; fruit 

 many celled. 



Order 2. PENTAGYNIA. Styles from two to five. 



The six British plants of this order are rarely found wild, though common 

 in gardens. They are the two Hellebores, Peony, Larkspur, Monk's-hood, 

 and Columbine. 



Order 3. POLYGYNIA. Many Styles. 

 * Petals none, except in Ranunculus. 



MEADOW RUE, (Thalictrum.) Calyx of four or five leaves, 



green or yellow ; seeds without awns. 

 VIRGIN'S BOWER, (Clematis.) Calyx of from four to six 



leaves ; seeds with long feathery awns. 

 WIND FLOWER, (Anemone.) Calyx of from five to nine leaves, 



colored ; seeds not in a seed vessel. 

 MARSH MARIGOLD, (Caltha.) Calyx of five or more leaves, 



colored ; seeds in follicles. 

 CROW-FOOT. BUTTERCUP, (Ranunculus.) Petals with a scale 



at the base of each ; seeds in heads. 



POPPY. PAP AVER. 

 COMMON RED POPPY. Papaver rhaas. 



Plate 7, fig. 10. 



My young readers you all know the Poppy, and I suppose 

 you would describe it as a scarlet flower that grows in the corn 

 field. This is not enough for me to tell it from the four other 

 sorts that grow in England nor even from the totally-different 

 Scarlet Pimpernel, which is found so often beside it. How then 

 shall a stranger know it ? Thus root fibrous, annual. Calyx 



