52 THE POPPY FAMILY. 



The threatening clouds and tempests dark, 



No terrors have for them, 

 When billows whelm the gallant bark, 



From stern to stem." 



The other species of Horned Poppy is red, and very 

 rare, " said to have been fdund in Norfolk." 



We will examine one more plant in this order, 

 because its general appearance is so different from the 

 Poppies, that when you meet with it, you will pass it 

 by, as belonging to another order, probably. Its 

 English name, would lead you to place it amongst 

 the Crowfoots ; but look at its seed-vessel, it cannot 

 belong to that family. 



[CELANDINE. Chelidonium. 



Sepals 2, Petals 4, Stigma 2-lobed, Pod above the Calyx 

 (superior) long and narrow, (linear) 1-celled, 2-valve . 

 Valves, separating from the base upwards. Seeds crusted. 

 Name signifies a Swallow : probably from the plant flowering 

 about the time of the arrival of those birds. 



Common Celandine. Chelidonium Majus. 



Stem, about 2 feet high, slightly hairy, brittle, full of a 

 yellow, foetid juice. Leaves pinnate, with about 5 decurrent 

 leaflets ; which are broadly egg-shaped, lobed and scollopped, 

 sometimes jagged. Flowers in long-stalked umbels, (see Glos.) 

 yellow, rather small. Pod long, somewhat turgid. PI. I. 

 4. e. i.] 



