54 POPPY FAMILY. 



* Flower purple. 

 +- Leaves ascending or reclined, short, wing broad, 



3. purptirea, Linn. PITCHER PLANT. Leaves with an erect round- 

 heart-shaped hood and a broad side-wing, purple-veiny ; flower deep 

 purple or greenish tinged ; petals fiddle-shaped, arched over the style. 

 Common in bogs N. 



S. psittacina, Michx. PARROT PITCHER PLANT of S. States, and 

 cult. Leaves short and spreading, with a narrow tube, a broad wing, 

 and an inflated globular hood, which is incurved over the mouth of the 

 tube, spotted with white. 



+- -t- Leaves erect, with long and narrow trumpet-shaped tube, the wing 

 narrow. 



S. rfcbra, Walt. RED-FLOWERED TRUMPET LEAF of S. States ; cult, 

 in greenhouses. Leaves slender, a foot long, with an erect, ovate, pointed 

 hood ; flower crimson-purple. 



S. Drummdndii, Groom. GREAT TRUMPET LEAF of Florida ; some- 

 times cult. Leaves much like the last, but 2 or 3 long, upper part of 

 the tube and the roundish erect hood variegated and purple-veiny ; and 

 the deep-purple flower very large. 



* * Flower yellow. 



S. variolaris, Michx. SPOTTED TRUMPET LEAF, S. States. Leaves 

 erect, 6'-12' long, white-spotted above, longer than the scape, with a 

 broad wing, and an ovate hood arching over the orifice ; flower 2' wide. 



S. flava, Linn. YELLOW TRUMPET LEAF of S. States ; cult, more 

 commonly than the rest, as a curiosity, and almost hardy N. Leaves 2 

 long, erect, yellowish, or purple-veiny, with a narrow wing and an erect 

 roundish, but pointed hood ; scape tall as the leaves ; flower 4'-6' wide. 



Darlingtbnia Califdrnica, Torr., occasionally cult., may be known by 

 the reddish or yellowish two-cleft appendage hanging at the mouth of the 

 leaves which looks downward. 



VHI. PAPAVERACEJ!, POPPY FAMILY. 



Herbs with regular flowers, a calyx mostly of 2 sepals which 

 fall when the blossom opens, petals twice or 3-5 times as 

 many, numerous free stamens and a 1-celled ovary, with 2 or 

 more parietal placentae. Fruit a pod, many-seeded. Juice 

 usually milky or colored, and narcotic, as in Poppy (opium), 

 or acrid. (No. 4. has watery juice, with the odor of muriatic 

 acid, and the calyx like a cap or lid ; No. 1 has no petals and few 



* Petals none; flowers in panicles; flower-buds drooping. 



1. BOCCONIA. Sepals 2, colored. Stigma 2-lobed. Pod few-seeded. Juice reddish. 



* * Petals present. Flowers notpanicled, the buds either erect or nodding. 



+- Pod strictly 1-celled, opening more or less completely by valves. 



H- Flower-bud erect. 



2. SANGTJINARIA. Sepals 2 ; but the petals 8-12. Stigma 2-lobed, on a short style. 



Pod oblong, with 2 placentae. Juice orange-red. 



8. AKGEMONE. Stigma 8-6-lobed, almost sessile. Sepals and oblong pod prickly ; the 

 latter opening by valves from the top, leaving the thread-like placenta between. Juice 

 yellow. 



