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tapering at apex into 4-8 unequal, stigmatose, linear, divergent lobes ; 

 placentas 2, nerviform cx-ovulate. Capsule linear, 10-furrowed, 

 dehiscing down to base ; valves inflexible, recurved, placentiferous at 

 edges. Seeds go, not crested. — Herbs, glabrous glaucescent ; leaves 

 alternate multisect ; lobes linear ; flowers long-pedunculate {North 

 West America). See p. 118. 



J 5. Dendromecon Benth. — Flowers of Eschscholtzia ; sepals 

 separate. Grermen elongated; style short ; apex stigmatose, 2-lobed ; 

 lobes alternating with placentas, erect short persistent. Fruit and 

 seeds of Eschscholtzia. — A glabrous shrub ; leaves alternate subsessile 

 elliptical-lanceolate coriaceous stiff entire much veined ; flowers 

 solitary terminal {California). See p. 119. 



IV. FUMAKIEvE. 



16. Hypecoum T. — Flowers hermaphrodite regular 2-merous. 

 Sepals 2, delicate. Petals 4, spreading ; outer ones flat or slightly 

 concave at base, 3-lobed or 3-crenate ; inner dissimilar, narrower or 

 more deeply lobed ; aestivation imbricate or twisted. Stamens 4, 

 opposite the petals ; anthers 2 locular, extrorse, 2-rimose. Germen 

 superior, elongated; style erect; lobes 2, subulate, stigmatiferous at 

 apex, alternating with placentas; placentas 2, nerviform; ovules co, 

 ascending ; micropyle inferior introrse. Capsule linear, divided trans- 

 versely between seeds by cellular partitions, sometimes continuous 

 and dehiscing by 2 valves, placentiferous at edges {Chiazospermum), 

 more frequently separating into indehiscent 1 -seeded joints. Seeds 

 compressed; albumen abundant flesh} T oily; embryo bowed excentric. 

 — Annual herbs, glaucous ; leaves alternate, or floral leaves opposite, 

 multisect ; segments linear ; flowers pedunculate, terminal or leaf- 

 opposed, sometimes in short leafy pedunculate racemes {South Europe, 

 Temperate Asia, North Africa). See p. 120. 



17. Dicentra Borkh. — Flowers regular 2-merous. Sepals 2, 

 small deciduous. Petals 4, erect-connivent ; the outer wider, saccate 

 or spurred at base ; inner unlike the outer, narrower, narrowed at 

 base, keeled or alate behind, cohering at apex. Stamens 6, in 2 equal 



