14 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



Order Vni. PAPAVERA'CEjE. (Poppy FAMii.Y.) 



Herbs, with milky or coloured juice and alternate leaves 

 without stipules. Mowers polyandrous, hypogynous. Sepals 

 2, caducous. Petals 4-12. Stamens numerous, anthers in- 

 trorse. Pruit a 1-celled pod (in Poppy imperfectly many- 

 celled), with numerous seeds. 



Synopsis of tbe Cienera. 



1. rhelido'nium. Juice yellow. Petals 4, crumpled in the bud, 

 yellow. 



2. Saugnlna'rla. Juice red. Petals 8-12, not crumpled In the hud, 

 white. 



3. Fapa'ver. Juice milky. Petals mostly 4. Ovary imperfectly 

 many-celled. Stigmas united into a radiate sessile crown. 



1. CHELIDO'NIOI, L. Celandine. 

 C. majus, L. Petals 4, deciduous, crumpled in the hud. 

 Juice of the plant yellow. Plower-buds nodding. Flowers 

 small, yellow, in a kind of umbel. Pruit a smooth 1-celled 

 slender pod, from which the two valves fall away, leaving 

 the parietal placentas as a slender framework, with the 

 seeds attached. — Waste places. 



a. SANenSTA'BIA, Dili. Blood-koot. 

 S. Canadensis, L. Petals 8-12, not crumpled in the bud. 

 Plower-buds not nodding. A stemless plant, with a thick 

 rhizome which emits a red juice when cut, and sends up in 

 early spring a single rounded, 5-7-lobed, thickish leaf, and 

 a 1-flowered scape. Flowers white. — Eich woods. 



3. PAPA'TBR, Tourn. Poppy. 



1. P. SOmnif erum, L. (Common Poppy.) Smooth and 

 glaucous. Leaves clasping, wavy, cut-toothed. Pod globose. 

 Petals white or purple, the buds nodding. — Waste places 

 and old gardens. 



2. P. Rhoe'as, L. (Corn Poppy.) Sparingly hispid. 

 Leaves deeply pinnatifid, the lobes cut-toothed. Pod 

 globular, smooth. Corolla 2-4 inches in diameter, scarlet, 

 often with a dark centre. — Waste-heaps, Atl. Prov. 



