FUMITORY FAMILY. 4t> 



P. Rhceas, CORN POPPY of Eu. Low, bristly, with almost pinnate 

 leaves, and deep red or scarlet flowers with a dark eye, or, when double, of 

 various colors ; pod obovate. 



P. dilbium, LONG-HEADED P. Leaves with their divisions more cut than 

 the last ; flowers smaller and lighter red, and pod oblong-clavate : run wild in 

 fields in Penn. 



# * Perennial : cult, for ornament : flowering in late, spring. 



P. orientals, ORIENTAL P. Rough-hairy, with tall flower-stalks, almost 

 pinnate leaves, and a very large deep-red flower, under which are usually some 

 leafy persistent bracts. Var. BRACTEXTUM, has these bracts larger, petals still 

 larger and deeper red, with a dark spot at the base. 



2. STYLOPHORUM, CELANDINE POPPY. (Name means styb- 

 bearer, expressing a difference between it and Poppy and Celandine. ) 1J. 



S. diphyllum. From Penn. W. in open woods ; resembling Celandine, 

 but low, and with far larger (yellow) flowers, in spring. 



3. CHELIDONIUM, CELANDINE. (From the Greek word for the 



Swallow. ) y, 



C. majUS, the only species, in all gardens and moist waste places ; 1 -4 

 high, branching, with p'innate or twice pinnatifid leaves, and small yellow flowers 

 in a aort of umbel, all summer ; the pods long and slender. 



4. ARGEMONE, PRICKLY POPPY. (Meaning of name uncertain.) 



A. Mexicana, MEXICAN P. Waste places and gardens. Prickly, l-2 

 high ; leaves sinuate-lobed, blotched with white ; flowers yellow or yellowish, 

 pretty large, in summer. Var. ALBIFL6RA has the flower larger, sometimes 

 very large, white ; cult, for ornament. 



5. ESCHSCHOLTZIA. (Named for one of the discoverers, Eschsckoltz, 

 the name easier pronounced than written.) 



E. Californica, Californian annual, now common in gardens ; with pale 

 dissected leaves, and long-peduncled large flowers, remarkable for the top- 

 shaped dilatation at the base of the flower, on which the extinguisher-shaped 

 calyx rests : this is forced off whole by the opening petals. The latter are 

 bright orange-yellow, and the top of the receptacle is broad-rimmed. Var. 

 DOUGLASII wants this rim, and its petals are pure yellow, or sometimes white; 

 but the sorts are much mixed in the gardens ; and there are smaller varieties 

 under different names. 



6. SANGTJINARIA, BLOOD-ROOT. (Name from the color of the 



juice.) U 



S. Canad6nsis, the common and only species ; wild in rich woods, hand- 

 some in cultivation. The thick red rootstock in early spring sends up a rounded- 

 reniform and palmate-lobed veiny leaf, wrapped around a flower-bud : as the leaf 

 comes out of ground and opens, the scape lengthens, and carries up the hand- 

 some, white, many-petalled flower. 



7. BOCCONIA. (Named in honor of an Italian botanist, Bocconi.) y. 



B. cordata, CORDATE B., from China, the only hardy species ; a strong 

 root sending up very tall leafy stems, with round-cordate lobed leaves, which arc 

 veiny and glaucous, and large panicles of small white or pale rose-colored flow- 

 ers, late in summer. 



9. FUMABIACEJE, FUMITORY FAMILY. 



Like the Poppy Family in the plan of the flowers ; but the 4- 

 petalled corolla much larger than the 2 scale-like sepals, also irreg- 

 ular and closed, the two inner and smaller petals united by their 



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