140 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Germen 1 -celled ; style slender, short, not much dilated at apex ; lobes 

 stigmatiferous, deflexed-adnate, opposite the placentas ; placentas 2, 

 nerviform ; ovules oo. Capsule linear; subdehiscent by valves 

 opening to base and exposing the persistent placentas together 

 with style. Seeds shining : raphe crested-arillate. — Herbs, erect 

 branched; juice saffron-coloured ; leaves much divided ; flowers in 

 terminal or leaf-opposed subumbelliform cymes {Europe, Temperate 

 Asia, North America). See p. 115. 



12. Glaucium T. — Flowers almost of Chelidonium. Germen 

 elongated. Style short or very short ; apex stigmatose dilated, sub- 

 mitriform, lobes 4, not very distinct, or 2 much larger, divaricated- 

 deflexed, opposite the placentas. Placentas 2, nerviform, connected by 

 a spurious cylindrical dissepiment (sometimes evanescent). Capsule 

 elongated linear ; valves dehiscing almost to base, and exposing the 

 persistent placentas together with style ; seeds oo, wrinkled, half 

 immersed in pits of hard spurious false dissepiment. — Glaucous 

 herbs ; juice saffron-coloured; leaves lobed or dissected ; flowers large, 

 long-pedunculate, terminal or leaf-opposed {Mediterranean region, 

 coasts of Europe, West Asia and North Africa). See p. 116. 



13. Rcemeria DC. — Flowers 2-merous (almost of Glaucium or 

 Papaver) ; placentas 3, or 2, 4, nerviform ; dissepiment ; style 

 subsessile ; lobes stigmatose, little dilated, deflexed-adnate, opposite 

 the placentas. Capsule linear, dehiscing from apex almost to base 

 by valves exposing the persistent placentas with persistent style, or 

 bearing them on their edges. Seeds wrinkled, not crested. — Annual 

 herbs ; habit and inflorescence of Papaver {Mediterranean region, 

 Europe, Temperate Asia). See p. 117. 



III. ESCHSCHOLTZIE,E. 



14. Eschscholtzia Cham. — Flowers hermaphrodite regular; 

 receptacle concave obconical, more or less enlarged and cupulate 

 at apex. Perianth distinctly perigynous ; sepals 3, cohering into a 

 deciduous calyptra, or more rarely separate {Hunnemannia). Petals 

 4 in 2 series, nearly of the same form. Stamens oo (of Papaver) ; 

 perigynous. Germen inserted at bottom of receptacle, 1 -celled, 



