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THE FLOKA. 



11 Plants with an orange-red juice. Bloodroot. SANGUINA'RIA. 1 



t Plants with a milk-white juice. Poppy. PAPA'VER. 2 



If Plants with a colorless juice. Calyx a cap, falling off whole. 



Petals 4, orange-yellow. Lvs. dissected. California Poppy. EBCHSCIIOLT'ZIA 

 fe P^d 1-celled, smooth. Leaves pinnately divided. Fls. yellow. 



Stamens 24-32, shorter than the 4 petals. Celandine. CiiELiho'NiCH. 



b Pod 2-celled, rough. Leaves palmate. Stig. 2 horned. Horn Poppy. GLAU'CJCM 



c Style present, stigmas 3 or 4. Stem Ivs. 2. opposite. Yellow Poppy. MECONOP'SIS 



e Style none, stigmas 4 or 6. Stem Ivs. alternate. Prickly Poppy. AEOEMO'NK 



1. SANGUINA'KIA. Bloodroot 



Sepals 2, caducous. Petals 8-12, the outer longer. 

 Stamens about 24. Stigma sessile, 1 or 2-lobed. Cap- 

 sule pod-like, oblong, 1-celled, 2-valved, acute at each 

 end, and many -seeded. U A low, acaulescent plant,, 

 with white flowers, and full of a red or orange -colored 

 juice. 



S. Canadensis. Bluodroot. An interesting plant, in shady, rich 

 soils, flowering in early spring. Khizoma thick, fleshy, and 

 when broken or wounded exudes a blood-colored juice, as 

 does every other part. From each joint of the root-stock 

 springs a single large glaucous leaf, and a scape about 6' 

 high, bearing a single flower. Leaf kidney-shaped, with 

 lobes separated by rounded sinuses between. Flower of a 

 square outline, white, scentless, and of short duration. 



Fig. 888. Sanguinaria Canifclensis: I, the pod; c, cross-section of it; 

 d, seed <-.ut open, showing the embryo. 



2. PAPA'VER. Poppy 



Sepals 2, caducous. Petals 4. Stamens 00. Stigmas 

 many, united into a star-like crown, sessile upon the 

 thick ovary. Capsule 1-celled, opening by pores beneath 

 the edges of the stigma. Exotic herbs, mostly G, with 

 a milk-white juice abounding in opium. 



* Bristly or hairy. Leaves pinnatifid. Flowers scarlet 2, 8 



Smooth, glaucous. Leaves eu't-t< othed, clasping. Flowers white 



