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2* G. pJicenkeiuii, with scarlet petals, black at the base and 

 hairy pods, only occurs occasionally as an escape. 



4. RiEMERiA (Violet Horned Poppy). — Annual herbs with 

 yellow juice. Liaves pinnatifid ; /Aww^; violet, fugacious; ovary 

 one-chambered ; fi-iiit pod-like. (Name; from J. F. Rosmer, a 

 German botanist. | 



1. R. hyhrida, whh a 3-valved capsule, 2—3 in. long, occurs 



CHEl.[D''.Mr'M MAji'^ {Comiuon Celandine'). 



rarely in dry cornfields in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, and is 

 probably not indigenous. 



5. Chklidoniuji (Celandine). — Perennial herbs with yellow 

 juice. Leases pinnate ; flowers yellow ;• Lorpeh 2 ; capsule i- 

 chambered, pod-like, 2 valved. (Named from the Creek t/ic/iJoii, 

 a swallow, because, according to Pliii)', lliat bird discovered that 

 its juice was efficacious in restoring sight to its young when 

 blinded.) 



I. C. mdjiis (Greater Celandine). — The only British species; 



