416 FUMARIACEAE QFUMITORY FAMILY^ 



1. G. flXvum Crantz. Lower leaves pinnatifid ; upper ones sinuate-lobed 

 and toothed, cordate-clasping ; pods rough, l.r)-2.5 dm. long. (6r. luteum Scop. 

 G. Glaucium Karst, ) — Waste places, s. e. N. E., Md., and Va.; also about 

 Syracuse, N. Y. ; not common. (Adv. from Eu.) 



5. PAP Aver [Toum.] L. Poppy 



Sepals mostly 2. Petals mostly 4. Stigmas united in a flat 4-20-rayed 

 crown, resting on the summit of the ovary and capsule ; the latter short and 

 turgid, with 4-20 many-seeded placentae projecting like imperfect partitions, 

 opening by as many pores or chinks under the edge of the stigma. — Herbs with 

 a white juice ; the flower-buds nodding. (Derivation obscure.) — Four annual 

 species of the Old World are sparingly adventive ; viz. : 



1. P. somm'ferum L. (Common P.) Smooth, glaucous; leaves clasping, 

 wavy, incised and toothed ; pod globose; corolla mostly white or purple. — Near 

 dwellings in some places. (Introd. from Eu.) 



2. P. Rhoeas L. (Corn p.) Bm% ; leaves pinnatifid ; pods o6ovo?(?, tur- 

 binate ; corolla bright scarlet, often dark at center. — Rubbish heaps and rarely 

 fields. (Introd. from Eu.) 



3. P. DUBiuM L. Pinnatifid leaves and the long stalks &m%; pods club' 

 shaped, smooth; corolla light scarlet. — Cultivated fields and waste grounds, 

 R. I., and south w., rare. (Adv. from Eu.) 



4. P. Argem6ne L. Smaller, with finer-cut leaves and paler flowers than 

 Uie last ; pods club-shaped and bristly. — Waste grounds, near Philadelphia. 

 (Adv. from Eu.) 



6. ARGEM6nE L. Prickly Poppy 



Sepals 2 or 3, often prickly. Petals 4-6. Style almost none ; stigmas 3-0, 

 radiate. Pod ellipsoid, prickly, opening by 3-6 valves at the top. Seeds 

 crested. — Annuals or biennials, with prickly bristles and yellow juice. Leaves 

 sessile, sinuate-lobed, and with prickly teeth, often blotched with white. 

 Flower-buds erect, short-peduncled. (Name from dpye/j-a, a disease of the eye, 

 for which the juice of a plant so called by the Greeks was a supposed remedy.) 



1. A. intermedia Sweet. Stout, very glaucous; peduncles leafy; corolla 

 white, 8-10 cm. in diameter. (A. platyceras Man. ed. 6, not Link '& Otto.) — 

 Meredosia, 111. {Seymour) to Neb., south w. and westw. 



2. A. mexicAna L. (Mexican P.) Less glaucous ; flowers smaller, 3-6 cm. 

 broad, yellow or rarely cream-colored (Var. ochroleuca Lindl.). — Waste 

 places and ballast, southw.; casual northw. (Adv. from Mex.) 



A. ALBA Lestiboudois, a southern species with white flowers on naked pedun- 

 cles, is said to occur in Mo. 



FUMARlACEAE (Fumitory Family) 



Delicate smooth herbs, loith watery juice, compound dissected leaves, irregu- 

 1 ir flowers, with 4 somewhat united petals, 6 diadelphous stamens, and 2-merous 

 pods and seeds like those of the Poppy Family. — Sepals 2, small and scale-like. 

 Corolla flattened, closed ; the 4 petals in two pairs ; the outer with spreading 

 lips, and one or both of them spurred or saccate at the base ; inner pair nar- 

 rower, and their callous- crested tips united over the stigma. Stamens in two 

 sets of 3 each, placed opposite the larger petals, hypogynous ; their filaments 

 often united ; middle anther of each set 2-celled, the lateral ones 1 -celled. Pod 

 1-celled, either 1-seeded and indehiscent, or several-seeded with 2 parietal pla- 

 centae and deciduous valves. — Leaves delicate, usually alternate, without stip- 

 ules Slightly bitter innocent plants. 



