ORDER 9. PAPAVERACE^E. 



ORDER IX. PAPAVERACE^E. POPPY-WCRTS. 



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

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

 lar, I/ or V- Sepals 2, rarely 3, caducous, and petals 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 00, minute. Embryo minute, 

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



1 Plants with a white juice. Petals 1, crumpled in bud PAPAVKR. 6 



1 Plants with a watery juice. Calyx a mitre, falling off whole ESCHSCIIOLTZIA, 7 



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



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



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



Stigmas and placentae 3, 4, or 6. Capsule ovoid, (b) 



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



a Pod 2-celled, rough. Lvs. palmate : GLAUCIUM. 3 



b Style distinct, but short MBCONOFM*. 4 



b Style none, stigma sessile ABGKMON*. I 



t No petals. Juice reddish. BOCCONIA. 8 



1. SANGUINARIA, L. BLOOD-ROOT. (Latin sangifis, 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. 

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

 veined leaf. Fig. 463. 



S. Canadeiisis L. An interesting flower, appearing in early Spring : common in the 

 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 oi 

 short duration. The juice is emetic and purgative. 



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



2. CHELIDONIUM, L. CELANDINE. (Xefadaov, 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. U Fragile, pale green, with saf- 

 iron-yellow juice. Figs. 344, 493. 



<'. majiis 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. 

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



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

 celled, linear, very Jong, rough. @ or @ sea-green herbs, with clasping 

 leaves, yellow juice, and solitary, yellow flowers. 



G. liiteum Scop. Sparingly naturalized near the coast, from the Potomac sonthwwd 

 2f LVB. 6-7-lobed. Fls. 2', of short duration. Pods 6 '. June Aug. 



