14 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



ORDER VIII. PAPAVERA'CE^. (POPPY FAMILY.) 



Herbs, with milky or coloured juice and alternate leaves 

 without stipules. Flowers polyandrous, hypogynous. Sepals 

 2, caducous. Petals 4-12. Stamens numerous, anthers in- 

 trorse. Fruit a 1-celled pod (in Poppy imperfectly many- 

 celled), with numerous seeds. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 



1. < IK lido niiim. Juice yellow. Petals 4, crumpled in the bud, 

 yellow. 



2. Saiigulna'ria. Juice red. Petals 8-12, not crumpled in the bud, 

 white. 



3. Papa'ver. Juice milky. Petals mostly 4. Ovary imperfectly 

 many-celled. Stigmas united into a radiate sessile crown. 



1. < m:i.llo Ml H, L. CELANDINE. 



C. majUS, L. Petals 4, deciduous, crumpled in the bud. 

 Juice of the plant yellow'. Flower-buds nodding. Flowers 

 small, yellow, in a kind of umbel. Fruit a smooth 1-celled 

 slender pod, from which the two valves fall away, leaving 

 the parietal placentas as a slender framework, with the 

 seeds attached. Waste places. 



2. s ix.i i> v KI A, Dill. BLOOD-ROOT. 



S. CanadensiS, L. Petals 8-12, not crumpled in the bud. 

 Flower-buds not nodding. A stemless plant, with a thick 

 rhizome which emits a red juice when cut, and sends up in 

 early spring a single rounded, 5-7-lobed, thickish leaf, and 

 a 1-flowered scape. Flowers white. Rich woods. 



3. PAPA'VEK, Tourn. POPPY. 



1. P. SOmnif'eFUm, L. (COMMON POPPY.) Smooth and 

 glaucous. Leaves clasping, wavy, cut-toothed. Pod globose. 

 Petals white or purple, the buds nodding. Waste places 

 and old gardens. 



2. P. RhOB'as, L. (CORN POPPY.) Sparingly hispid. 

 Leaves deeply pinnatifid, the lobes cut- toothed. Pod 

 globular, smooth. Corolla 24 inches in diameter, scarlet, 

 often with a dark centre. Waste-heaps, Atl. Prov. 



