18 



ly. PAPAVERACE^. 



[ Glaucium. 



** Fruit linear^ elongated. Stigma 2 



4:-lobecl 



3. G1.AUCIUM Tourn. Horned-Poppy. 



■ Sep. 2. Pet. 4. Stigma 2-lobe(l, sessile. Pod. linear, the 

 two placentas at length connected by a spongy dissepiment, hence 

 2-ceIled, 2-valved. Seeds dotted without a crest. — Named 

 from the glaucous or sea-green hue of the stems and leaves. ^ 



1. G. luteum Scop, (yellow H.) ; pod minutely tuberculated 

 cauline leaves amplexicaul sinuate, stem glabrous. E. B. t s' 

 Chelidonium Glaucium Z. 



Sandy sea- shores, frequent. 0. 6—10. — Stem 1—2 ft. high, 

 very glaucous, much branched. Leaves scabrous. Flowers very 

 large, handsome, succeeded by pods 6 — 10 inches long. 



2. G. * phceniceum Gaert. (scarlet H.) ; pod hispid, cauline 

 leaves deeply pinnatifid and cut, stem hairy. E. B. t. 1433. 

 Chelidonium corniculatum Z. 



Said to have been found on Portland island, and In Norfolk. 

 ©. 6, 7. — Petals scarlet, with a black spot at their base. 



Sep. 2. 



with 2 — 



4. R(EMEKiA De Cand. Eoemeria. 



Pet. 4. Stigma 2 — 4-lobed, sessile. PoJ linear 

 4 placentas not connected by a perfect dissepiment, 

 I -celled, 2— 4-valved, valves separating from the apex down- 

 wards. Seeds dotted, without a crest. — Named after J. J, 

 jRcemer^ Professor of Botany at Landshut. 



. 1. R.* hyhrida De C. {erect-podded R.) ; pod 3-valved erect 

 hispid near the summit, leaves tripinnatifid the segments Unear 

 scabrous. Chelidonium L. : E. B. t. 201. Glaucium violaceum 



JlLSS. 



Corn-fields, rare. Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. ©. 5, 6. 

 hairy. Petals violet-blue. 



5. Chelidonium Linn. Celandine. 



Sep.2. Pet. A. Stigma 2 -lohed. Po^ superior, linear, 1-ceIled, 

 2-valved, valves separating from the base upwards. Seeds 

 crested. — Named from x^^^a^wr, a swalloiv ; probably from the 

 plant flowering about the time of the arrival of those birds. 



1. C. mdjtis L. (common C.) ; E. B.t 1581. 



Waste places, especially near towns and villages. Ij., 5 — S. 



About 2 ft. high, slightly hairy, brittle, full of a yellow fetid juice. 



Leaver pinnate, with about 5 decurrent segments, which are broadly 



Flowers in long- 



Sepah 



ovate, lobed, and crenated, sometimes jagged, 

 stalked umbels, yellow, rather small. 



somewhat turgid. 



Sepals glabrous. Pod longi 



