PAP AVER ACE ^. 



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Glaucium flavum. 



project the two placentas covered with seeds and united by a thick 



hard false septum, which is nearly cylindrical, with the seeds more 



or less completely embedded in it. On dehiscence they remain in 



this central column, while the two carpellary leaves diverge from it 



from above downwards almost to the base of the fruit. The 



seeds are scrobiculate but not arillate. 



Glaucium consists of herbs with a 



coloured juice, and lobed or dissected 



alternate leaves. The flowers are in 



terminal cymes, sometimes reduced 



to a single flower. Five or six 



species have been distinguished 1 from 



the Mediterranean, one inhabits the 



seacoasts of Europe, Asia, and North . 



Africa. 



Rcemeria* has the perianth and 

 androceum of Glaucium or Papaver, 

 so that the flower is externally 

 quite that of the latter. But its 



slender elongated ovary, with from two to four linear placentas, 

 is surmounted by a sessile slightly dilated stigma with deflexed. 

 adnate lobes. The seeds attached to the edges of long narrow con- 

 cave valves are quite those of a Poppy ; there is no false septum. 

 One or two species of this genus are known, 3 herbs from Temperate 

 Europe and Asia, with the habit and inflorescence of Papaver. 



Fig. 137. 

 Flower. 



III. ESCHSCHOLTZIA SERIES. 



Eschscholtzia* (figs. 13S-141) has regular hermaphrodite flowers. 

 The receptacle forms a hollow cone, whose mouth is surrounded by 



1 Sm., Fxot. Bot.,\u t. 7. — Sibth., Fl. Grcec, 

 t. 488, 489. — Fees., in Mus. Senkenh., i. 1. 10. — 

 Reichb., It: Fl. Genu., iii. 1. 11, 12. — A. Gbay, 

 Man., 26 — Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 119.— Geen. & 

 Gode., Fl. de Fr., i. 61. — Walp., i. 115; ii. 

 750; Ann., i. 23 ; iv. 174; vii. 86. 



2 Medik., in lister. Ann., iii. Pep. (1792), 

 15.— DC., Syst., ii. 92 ; Prodr., i. 122.— Endl,, 

 Gen., n. 4825.— B. H., Gen., 53, n. 13. 



3 DC, in Mem. Soc. Gen., i. 224, t. 2.— 



Deless., Ic. Sel., ii. t. 8. — Sibth., Fl. Grcec, 

 t. 490 {Glaucium).— Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 118.— 

 Walp., Ann., i. 23 ; iv. 174. 



4 Cham., in Nees Hor. Phys. Berol., 73, t. 

 15. — DC, Prodr., iii. 344. — Spach, Suit, a 

 JSuffon, vii. 47. — Beenh., in Linncea, viii. 464. — 

 Endl., Gen., n. 4827. — Payee, Organog., 217, 

 t. 45. — B. H., Gen., 54, n. 17. — Chryseis LlNDl., 

 in Pot. Keg., t. 1948. 



