54 ' B OPPY FAMILY. 



# Flower purple. 

 *- Leaves ascending or reclined, short, wing broad. 



S. purpurea, Linn. Pitcher Plant. Leaves with an erect round- 

 heart-shaped hood and a broad side-wing, purple-veiny ; flower deep 

 purple or greenish tinged ; petals fiddle-shaped, arched over the style. 

 Common in bogs N. 



S. psittaclna, Michz. Pabbot Pitcher Plant of S. States, and 

 cult. Leaves short and spreading, with a narrow tube, a broad wing, 

 and an inflated globular hood, which is incurved over the mouth of the 

 tube, spotted with white. 



+- *- Leaves erect, with long and narrow trumpet-shaped tube, the wing 



narrow. 



S. rubra, Walt. Red-plowebed Trumpet Leaf of S. States ; cult, 

 in greenhouses. Leaves slender, a foot long, with an erect, ovate, pointed 

 hood ; flower crimson-purple. 



S. Drvunmdndii, Croom. Gbeat Trumpet Leap of Florida ; some- 

 times cult. Leaves much like the last, but 2° or 3° long, upper part of 

 the tube and the roundish erect hood variegated and purple-veiny ; and 

 the deep-purple flower very large. 



* * Mower yellow. 



S. variolaris, Michx. Spotted Tbumpet Leap, S. States. Leaves 

 erect, 6'-12' long, white-spotted above, longer than the scape, with a 

 broad wing, and an ovate hood arching over the orifice ; flower 2' wide. 



S. flava, Linn. Yellow Trumpet Leap of S. States ; cult, more 

 commonly than the rest, as a curiosity, and almost hardy N. Leaves 2° 

 long, erect, yellowish, or purple-veiny, with a narrow wing and an erect 

 roundish, but pointed -hood ; scape tall as the leaves ; flower 4'-5' wide. 



Darlington/a Calif6rnica, Torr., occasionally cult., may be known by 

 the reddish or yellowish two-cleft appendage hanging at the mouth of the 

 leaves which looks downward. 



VIII. PAPAVERACEJi, POPPY FAMILY. 



Herbs with, regular flowers, a calyx mostly of 2 sepals which 

 fall when the blossom opens, petals twice or 3-5 times as 

 many, numerous free stamens and a 1-celled ovary, with 2 or 

 more parietal placentae. Fruit a pod, many-seeded. Juice 

 usually milky or colored, and narcotic, as in Poppy (opium), 

 or acrid. (No. 4. has watery juice, with the odor of muriatic 

 acid, and the calyx like a cap or lid ; No. 1 has no petals and few 

 seeds.) 



* Petals none; flowers in panicles; flower-buds drooping. 



1, BOOCONIA. Sepals 2, colored. Stigma 2-lobed. Fod few-seeded. Juice reddish. 



* • Petals present. Flowers not panicled, the buds either erect or nodding. 



+■ Pod strictly 1-celled, opening more or less completely by valves. 



■*+ Flower-bud erect. 



2. SANGUINARIA. Sepals 2; bat the petals 8-12. Stigma 2-lobed, on a short style. 



Fod oblong, with 2 placenta. Juice orange-red. 

 8. ARGEMONK. Stigma 8-6-lobed, almost sessile. Sepals and oblong pod prickly ; the 

 latter opening by valves from the top, leaving the thread-like placenta between. Juice 

 yellow. 



