SECT. II 



PHANEROGAMIA 



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Dicentra 

 plant. 



spectabilis, with a two - spurred corolla, is a well - known ornamental 



Family Papaveraceae. — Flowers ACTINOMORPHIC ; calyx dimerous; 



COROLLA CONSISTING OF TWO DIMEROUS WHORLS : andrcecium POLY- 

 MEROUS ; pistil TWO- TO SIXTEEN-MEROUS ; SEEDS WITH ENDOSPERM. 



Herbaceous plants with stiff hairs and latex vessels containing a 

 white, more rarely a yellow, orange or red latex. 



The flowers are usually large and beautifully coloured, either 



Fig. 482. — Esclischoltzia califomica. a, Flower; b, 

 fruit before, and c, after dehiscence. (Nat. size.) 



Flo. 483.- 



wm (| nat. size). 

 -Poisonous and Officinal. 



solitary or clustered. The fruit is always a many-seeded capsule, 

 sometimes resembling the pods of the Cruciferae, but without false 

 dissepiments (Fig. 482). 



As examples of this family may be cited Chelidonium (Celandine), with orange- 

 coloured latex and siliquose fruit ; Papaver (Poppy), with white latex. In this 

 last-named genus the fruit is an incompletely septated, polymerous capsule, 

 opening at maturity by valves just below the rayed stigma. 



