Chdiduuiuin. I'Al'AVKUAl'E.i:. 8U 



nearly related if not confluent species. — Santa Inez Mts., S. Calif., Si„nce, limndnjie, north- 

 ward to Sau Luis Obispo Co. {P. Lcmmoni), ace. to Greene, 1. c, and Houtli at leaiit to Lob 

 An^reles Co., ace. to McClatchie. Especially abundant on burns. 

 * * * Arclic-alpiiie, acaulc^ccnt, ]H'reiinial. 

 P. nudicaiile, L. Dwarf, liirsute-hlspid: leaves all in a rmlical tuft, ol)lonK-spatulate or 

 ol)ov:ite in uiulinc, pinnatitid or below pinnalely divided; divisions spalulale to Unteolati-. 

 entire or :2-3-cleft : petals lialf inch to incii lonj^, rarely orangt- or wliitish: capsule fnmi 

 short-obovate to turbinate-oblouf^, nio.stly hispid: sti^niatic rays and placenta; 4 to 7, usually 

 6 or 7.— Spec. i. 507, & ed. 2, i. 725 (Dill. Kith. t. 224) ; vi Dan. t. 41 ; DC. Syst. ii. 7o'; 

 I'vlkan, Mououf. Pa]). 10. — Wliclhcr or not liie species should include P. aljunum, L. ui 

 Kiiroju'iui Alj)s, ours is all 



Var. arcticum, Elkan, 1. c. with dark hairy scapes rarely over a span hij;h, and divis- 

 ions of leaves entire or sparingly cleft : capsule short and thi<k, or even obovate-globo.se (na 

 iu P. microcarpum, DC. Syst. ii. 71, & P. nudicuule, Keichenb. Ic. I'l. Crit. t. 742). — J'. 

 alpinum, Hook. f. Arc. I'l. 284,313; Gray, Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, xxxiii. 407. — 'rhrou;.jh 

 Arctic Coast and Islands to Hudson Bay, Uualask:i, and alpine Kocky Mountains to S. 

 Colorado. (Greenland E. to Kanitschatka.) 



10. MEC0N6PSIS, Vi^niier. (Mry/cwi', poppy, oi/^is, reseiiiblauce.) — 

 Poppy-like herbs, with yellow juice, W. Europeuu and Himalayan pcreiioials, 

 with the following outlying species. -^ Hist, des Pav. 11, 48; DC. Fl. Fr. 

 Suppl. 586, & Syst. ii. 86; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 52. 



M. lieteropliylla, Bknth. Glabrous annual, a foot or two high, simjile or branching : 

 leaves soniewliat succulent, i)innately parted or divide<l, mostly petioled ; divisions varialde, 

 from oval to linear, entire or incised, or some pinuatifid : peduncles slender : petals half 

 inch to inch long, pale scarlet or orange-red : capsule turbinate to obovate, with style .shorter 

 than the width of the truncate summit, dehiscent by about 8 operculate lids rather than 

 valves at summit. — Trans, llort. Soc. ser. 2, i. 408; Hook. Ic. t. 732; Torr. Pacif. K. Kep. 

 iv. 64; Brew. & Wats. Rot. Calif, i. 22. J/, heteroplu/l/n & ^f. crassljhiia, Benth. I.e.; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 61. ^ — Dry ground, throughout W. California; type coll. by DuwjUis; 

 fl. summer. (Lower Calif.) 



11. STYL6PH0RUM, Nutt. (Formed of orvXos, style, and <^€/>a,, to 

 bear, the style couspieuous.) — Perennial herbs with orange-yellow juice, of an 

 anomalous Japanese, another Himalayan, and the following original .species. — 

 Gen. ii. 7 ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 113, t. 48. 



S. diphyllum, Nutt. 1. c. (Celandine Poppy.) Minutely pubescent or glabrate: stems 

 a foot <ir two high, two-leaved at summit and sometimes one-leaved below: leaves petioled, 

 pinnately parted, the radical into 7, cauline mostly into 5 to 7 oblong or oval sinuatiMlentate 

 divisions, upper ones more broadly conHuent: peduncles 3 to 5 in an umbelliforni clust(>r 

 between the subopposite leaves, slightly drooping iu bud : petals golden yellow, orbicuhir, 

 inch or less long, early deciduous : style abru])t, rather shorter tlian the ovary : cajisule 

 drooping, oval, about an inch long, beset with soft sjireading l)ristles: ])Iacentie 3 or 4; 

 seeds reticulated, the rhaplie strongly crested. — Gray, Man. 27, & Gen. 111. i. 114, t. 48 ; 

 Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4867. N. (lipln/llnm & S. i>etiolntiim, Nutt 1. c. 7, 8. .^■. Olueus,', Spreng. 

 Syst. ii. 570. ChclUloninm (lijilii/lliim, Miclix. Fl. i. 300. Me con ops in (hphi/lhi & M. pttioluln. 

 DC. Syst. ii. 87, 88. .1/. (hplii/l/a, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 61. — Moi.st womls, \Y. Penn. to 

 Wisconsin, and Tennessee ; ii. spring and early summer. 



12. CHELIDONIUM, Touni. Celandinr, Sw.\i.i.(.w-w(.i:t. (An- 

 cient Greek name, from ;)(£/\tSo)i'. tiie swallow.) — Inst. 231, t. 116; L. (nii. no. 

 424. — Now of single species. 



C. mAjus, L. Perennial or biennial, with brittle branching stems (2 to 4 feet high) and 

 copious orange and acrid juice, glaucous, more or less jiuhcscent: leaves petiok-d, pinnately 



1 Add syn. Papaver heterophyUum, Greene, Fl. Francis. 281 ; P. crassi/olium, tSreene, MaJi. Riy- 

 Res. 9. 



