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THE FLORA. 



1 Plants -with an orange-red juice. jBloodroot. Sak&hina'kia. 1 



H Plants with a milk-white juiee. Popp;/. Papa'vek. 2 



If Plants with a colorless juice. Calyx a cap, falling oif whole. 



Petals 4, orange-yellow. Lvs. dissected. CaUfornia Poppy: Esohsoholt'zia. 

 b Pod 1-oelled, smooth. Leaves pinnately divided. Fls. yellow. 



Stamens 24-32, shorter than the 4 petals. GeUmdine. Ciielido'kidm. 



b Pod 2-celled, rough. Leaves palmate. Stig. 2-horned. ZTorw Pop;)^. Glau'cium. 



c Style present, stigmas 8 or 4. Stem lvs. 2, opposite. Telhw Poppy. Meoonop'sis. 



o Style none, stigmas 4 or 6. Stem lvs. alternate.. Prickly Pappy. Aegemo'ke. 



.1. SANGUINA'EIA. Bloodroot. 



Sepals 2, caducous. Petals 8-12, the outer longer. 

 Stamens about -24. Stigma sessile, 1 or 2-lobed. Cap- 

 sule pod-like, oblong,! -celled, 2-valved, acute at each 

 end, and many -seeded. — % A low, aoaulesoent plant, 

 with white flowers, and full of. a red .or orange-colored 

 juice. 



S. Canadensis. Bloodroot. An interesting.plant, in shady, rich 

 soils, flowering in early spring. Ehizoma thick, fleshy, and 

 when broken or wounded exudes a blood-colored juice, as 

 does every other part. From each joint of the root-stock 

 springs ^ single large glaucous leaf, and a'scape about G' 

 high, bearjng a single flower. Leaf kidney-shapjd, with 

 lobes separated by rounded sinuses between. Flower of a 

 square outline, white, scentless, and of short duration. 



Fig.%^. Sanguioaria Canadensis: &, the pod; e, cross-section of it; 

 d, seed cut open, showing the embryo. 



2. PAPA'VER. Poppy. 



Sepals 2,. caducous. Petals 4. Stamens 00. Stigmas 

 many, united into a star-like crown, sessile upon the 

 thick ovary. Capsule 1-celled, opening by pores beneath 

 the edges of' the stigma. Exotic herbs, mostly O, with' 

 a milk-white juice abounding in opium. 



* Bristly or hairy. Leaves pinnatifld. Flowers scarlet. . ; .2, 8 



♦ Smooth, glaucous. Loaves'cut-toothed, clasping. Flo-wers white 1 



