PAP AVE 'RACE 'M. 



Ill 



Papaver In/bridum. 



arranged along a common branch, axillary to its bracts or ill- 

 developed leaves, so as to form a sort of large lax raceme, with the 

 secondary axes drooping before the llowers ex- 

 pand. 3f. cambrica? is European ; the seven 

 or eight remaining species^ inhabit the Hiina- 

 lavas and North America. 



Argcmone* (figs. 125—127) has usually tri- 

 merous flowers, with a calyx, 4 two corollas, and 

 indefinite stamens. It is distinguished from 

 Pf{p(wero\\\y by slight characters derived from 

 the gynseceum and fruit, especially from the 

 number of constituent carpels, the form and 

 arrangement of the stigmatiferous divisions 

 of the style, and the extent of the triangular 

 valves of dehiscence. The one-celled ovary 

 contains from three to six narrow multi- 

 ovulate parietal placentas, and is surmounted 

 by a short style, which soon expands into as 

 many 5 stigmatiferous lobes, concave above and lined by velvety 

 stigmatiferous tissue. The fruit is an elongated capsule, opening- 

 above by the depression of as many valves as there are placentas. 

 These latter remain surmounted by the style to form a sort of cage, 

 between the bars of which the scrobiculate seeds escape. Arr/emone 

 consists of herbs with a yellow latex, possessing alternate incised 

 pinnatifid leaves, often covered with stiff bristles or sharp prickles, 

 like the peduncles, calyx, and ovary. The flowers 6 are terminal. The 

 five or six known species 7 are American ; but one of them is now 

 found all over the Tropics. 



Fig. 124 

 Inflorescence. 



1 Via., loc. cit.— DC, Fl. Fr., v. 586.— 

 Geen. & Godr., Fl. de Fr., i. 60. — Papaver 

 cambricum L., Spec, 1-1. 



2 Hook, p., III. PI. Himal., t. S, 9.—B >/. 

 Mag., t. 4668, 5585.— Walp., Rep,, i. 110 

 (part.) ; Ann., iv. 170 ; vii. 86. 



3 A.gemone T., Inst, 239, t. 121.— L., G n , 

 n. 619.— Adaxs., Fain, des PL, ii. 432.— J., 

 Gen., 236.— G.ERT.V., F.uct., i. 287, t. GO.— 

 Lamk., Diet., i. 287; Suppl., i. 417; 111., fc. 

 452.— DC, Prodr., i. 120.— Spach, Suit, a 

 Buffon, vii. 25. — Payee, Organog., t. 16. — 

 E.NDL., Gen., n. 4821.— B. H., Gen., 52, V6h, n. 

 6. — Echtras Louu., Fl. Cochinch., 314. 



4 A little below the organic apex of each sepal 



is an external prominence, a pointed cone ot 

 variable length, resulting from a localized de- 

 velopment of the midrib (rig. Ii5). 



5 The stigmatiferous lobes are superposed to 

 the placentas, as in the Poppies. 



6 White or yellow. 



7 Hook f. & Thoms., Fl. Ind., i. 255. — 

 Eenth., Fl. Hongk., 15. — A. Guvr, Gen. III., 

 t. 47; Man., 25. — Chapm., Fl S. U.iit. -States, 

 21.— Geiseb., Fl, Brit. W. hid., 12.— Ejchl., 

 in Mart. Fl. Bras., Papai)., 315. — Oliv., Fl. 

 Prop. Afr.,\. hi.— Bat. R g., t. 1264.— Bot. 

 Mag., t. 2342.— WA1.P., Hep., i. 109; Ann., ii. 

 25; iv. 170 ; vii. 85. 



