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placentas inconspicuous. Seeds with a small crest-like appendage next the 

 hilum. 



A genus now reduced to a single species. 



1. Conuuon Celandine. Chelidocium majus, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1581.) 



Kootstock perennial. Stems erect, slender, branching, 1 to 2 feet high, full 

 of a yellow fetid juice, and generally bearing a few spreading hairs. Leaves 

 thin, glaucous underneatli, once or twice pinnate, tlie segments ovate, coarsely 

 toothed or lobed, the stalks often dilated into a kind of false stipides. 

 Flowers small and yeEow, 3 to 6 together, in a loose umbel, on a long pe- 

 duncle. Pod nearly cj'lmdrical, glabrous, IJ to 2 inches long. 



On I'oadsides and waste places, throughout Europe and Kussian Asia ex- 

 cept the extreme north. In Britain, cliiefly near villages and old ruins. 

 Frequent in England and some parts of L-eland, less so in Scotland. Fl, 

 all summer. 



TV. RCEMERZA. EOEMEEIA. 



Ovary linear, with a sessile stigma of 3 or 4 short rays. Capsule long and 

 linear, opening from the summit downwards in 3 or 4 valves, the placentas 

 inconspicuous. Seeds without any crest-like appendage. 



A genus of two or three species, from the east Mediterranean region, 

 perhaps all mere varieties of one. 



1. Common Roemeria. Roemeria hybrida, DC. 



(Chelido Ilium, Eng. Bot. t. 201.) 



An annual very much resembHng the pale Poppy in habit and foliage, and 

 in its pale red-pm-phsh flowers, but differing widely in its hnear capsule, \\ 

 to 2 or 3 inches long, bearing a few erect, stiff hairs, and not divided into 

 cells inside. 



A Mediterranean species, appearing occasionally as a cornfield weed in 

 central Europe, and said to be estabhshed as such in Cambridgeshire. Fl. 

 with the corn. 



V. GZiAUCZUIVI. GLAUCIUM. 



Ovary linear, contracted at the top into a 2-lobed stigma. Capsule Unear, 

 opening in 2 valves, leaving 2 free hnear placentas, forming a thin, dry, 

 spongy substance, in which the seeds are more or less imbedded. 



The very few species comprised m the genus besides the British one, are 

 from the Mediterranean region. 



1. Vellow Glaucium. Glaucium luteum, Scop, 

 (Chelidonimn Crlaucium, Eng. Bot. t. 8. Horned Poppy. Sea Poppy.) 

 A stout annual, with hard spreading branches, very glaucous in all its 

 parts. Leaves thick, the radical ones stalked, pinnately lobed or divided, 

 the lobes ovate or lanceolate, sinuate or lobed, rough with short thick hahs, 

 the upper ones shorter, broader, less divided, and smoother. Flowers on 

 short peduncles, large and yellow, the petals very fugacious. Pods 6 to 10 

 or 13 mches long, crowned by the spreading lobes of the stigma. 



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