706 452. Papaver. 82. PAPAVERACE^E. PLex.lhaL 



Stem 3 feet high; leaves shnple, lobed; petals white, 

 plain, streaked, marbled, or with a dark spot at the bot- 

 tom; stigma 10 or 12-rayed; seeds white. — Capsules, in de- 

 coction, emollient; seeds oily, formerly used in emulsions, 

 also strewed on cakes, yield an oil sold for that of the olive ; 

 juice of the capsule dried (English opium), as also the ex- 

 tract, and syrup of the dried capsules without the seeds, 

 are in great use as narcotic, hypnotic, and stupefacient. 



Earn. XVII. 83. NYMPH.EACEiE. R. A. Salisbury. 



Calyx 4 or 5-sepaled, inserted on the thalamus ; petals and 

 stamens disposed in maaj' series alternate to the sepales ; 

 stamens many, indefinite ; anthers adnate, 2-celled ; style ; 

 stigmata 8 or 10, radiated; ovary (in natives) 1, free, many- 

 celled; pericarpium dry, %'alveless; seeds ovate; perisperm 

 farinaceous ; corculum topshaped. — ■ Plants herbaceous, 

 aquatic ; stem thick, creeping ; leaves longly petioled, pel- 

 tately ribbed; peduncles 1 -flowered; Iractece 0. 



Sepales larger than the petals ; 

 petals necidixiieromxjilaments linear Nuphar. 453. 



Sepales smaller than the petals; 

 stigma nectariferous; inner filament 

 dilated NYMPHiEA. 454. 



I. 453. NUPHAR. R. A. Salisbury. Water-can. 



Calyx 4 or 5-sepaled ; petals many, nectariferous on the 

 back, inserted on the receptacle ; staniens very numerous; 

 Jilamenls linear; stigynata. 8 or 10, linear; berry ovate, 

 barked, 8 or lO-celled. — Flowers yellow, exserted above 

 the water. 



1. Nuphar luteum. Yellow water-can. 



Calyx S-sepaled; stigmata not toothed; petiole 2-edged; 

 leaves heartshape, lobes coming close together. 



Nymphaea lutea, Rati Syn. 368, 1 ; Ger. «». 819, 2; Lin. S. P. 729. 

 Njmplisea tnajdr lutca, Park. 1252. 

 Nuphar luteum, Salisbury, Ann. Bot. 2, 09. 

 Yelloia water lilly. 



Rivers and stagnant waters ; perennial; .luly. 



Leaves blunt, smooth, edge not cut; scape round; sepales 

 coloured; petals yellow, smelling like brandy, shorter than 

 the sepales \jilaments all linear \ fruit ovate, beaked. — Roots 

 poisonous to crickets and moles; the infusion useful in 

 leprosy. 



