Papaverj] * PAPAVERACEAE . 23 



*P. somniferum,' L., Sp. PL 508. Erect, glaucous, lft.-3ft. high, usually 

 glabrous except a few bristles on the capsule. Leaves amplexicaul, margins waved 

 or toothed. Capsule ovoid or globose, stipitate. Filaments slightly dilated upwards. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : Sparingly naturalised. Chiefly an escape from cultivation. 

 Poppy. Jan., Feb. 



'GLAUCIUM, Tourn. 

 Sepals 2. Petals 4. Ovary ijnperfectly 2-celled. Style short or 0. Stigmatic 

 lobes 2, deflexed. Ovules oo. Placentas connected by a spongy dissepiment. Cap- 

 sule elongated, 2-valved. Seeds co. Erect or spreading glaucous herbs, with large 

 flowers. 



* G. flavum, Grantz, Stirp. Austr. ii. 131. 1ft. -2ft. high, branched. Eadical 

 leaves petioled, lyrate or 2-pinnatifid, glaucous and more or less hispid. Cauline 

 leaves amplexicaul or nearly so, irregularly lobed. Buds erect. Flowers large, 

 on short grooved peduncles, golden-yellow. Capsules linear, 8in.-12in. or more, 

 curved or flexuous. Seeds sunk in the spongy septum. 



NORTH Island : Castlepoint and Wiianganui to Cook Strait. Naturalised on sea-beaches. 

 Horned poppy. Nov. to Jan. Europe, 



*ESCHSCHOLTZIA, Cham. 

 Sepals 3, coherent, forming a oalyptrate calyx. Petals 4, perigynous. Sta- 

 mens oo, perigynous. Ovary 1-celled ; stigmatic lobes 4-8, linear. Capsule elon- 

 gated, linear, 10-furrowed, dehiscing to base. Seeds cx^. 



*E. californica, Cham, in Nees. Hor. Phys. Berol. 73. A suberect, almost 

 glaucous, much-branched herb. Leaves 2- or 3-pinnately divided into short linear 

 obtuse segments or lobes. Flowers on long axillary peduncles, orange-yellow. 

 Stigma unequally 4-lobed. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : Naturalised in cultivated ground, river-beds, waste places, 

 &o. Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, Otago. Deo. to Feb. California. 



Okdek— * EUMARIAOEAE. 



Corolla irregular. Sepals 2, scale-like. Petals 4, in two dissimilar pairs ; the 

 two outer longer, one or both of them gibbous and spurred at the base ; the two inner 

 erect, smaller, often united at the tips. Stamens 6, in two. sets opposite the outer 

 petals, the middle anther of each set being 2-celled, the others 1-celled. Stigmas 

 obtuse or lobed, placentas parietal. Seeds with endosperm. Fruit a 2-valved many- 

 seeded capsule, or an indehiscent nut. Weak herbs with mUch-divided exstipulate 

 leaves and watery juice. 



* FUMARIA, Linn. 



Sepals 2. Petals 4, erect, connivent, the uppermost spurred, the lower flat, 

 the 2 lateral narrow, cohering at the tips. Stamens 6, diadelphous. Ovary 1-oelled. 

 Fruit globose, small, 1-seeded. Weak herbs with much- dissected leaves, sometimes 

 climbing. Flowers in terminal racemes or spikes or opposite the leaves. 

 Climbing by the tvfining petioles . . . . . . . . . . . . * IT. muralis. 



Decumbent or suberect .. .. .. .. .. *. .. * F. officinalis. 



*F. muralis, Sond. in Koch Syn. Fl. Germ. 1017, ed: 2. Stem lax, diffuse, 

 climbing by means of the twisting petioles or prostrate. Leaves alternate, pinnate, 

 ternate or 2-ternate ; segments lobed or cut. Flowers in short racemes opposite 

 the leaves. Sepals 2, as broad as the corolla-tube and one-third as long, ovate, 

 toothed. Corolla black at its apex, lower petal narrowed from its middle upwards. 

 Fruit small, globose, minutely rugose, with two faint apical pits ; neck narrower 

 than the top of the pedicel. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : Naturalised in cultivated and vvaste land. Oct. to Feb. 

 Europe. 



