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end, many-seeded. — V A low, acaulescent plant, with a white flower, 

 and a glaucou?, palmate-veined leaf. 



S. Canadensis L. An interesting flower, in woods, Can. and IT. S., appearing 

 in early spring. Rliizome fleshy, tuberous, and wlien broken or bruised exudes 

 an orange-red fluid, as also does every other part of the plant. From each bud 

 of the root-stidk there springs a single large, glaucous leaf; and a scape about 6' 

 high, with a single flower. "Whole plant glabrous. Leaf kidney-shaped, with 

 roundish lobes separated by rounded sinuses. Fl. of a quadrangular outline, 

 white, scentless, and of short duration. The juico is emetic and purgative. 

 Apr., May. (Fig. 557.) 

 j8. LeaJF not lobed, margin undulate. Bainbridge, Ga. 



2. CHELIDbNIUM, L. Celandine. (Gr. ;\;£A,t(5(jv, the swallow; 

 being supposed to flower with the arrival of that bird, and to perish 

 with its departure.) Sepals 2, suborbicular ; petals 4, suborbicular, 

 contracted at base ; stamens 24 — 32, shorter than the petals; stigma 1, 

 small, sessile, bifid ; capsule silique-form, linear, 2-valved, 1-cellod ; 

 seeds crested. — U Fragile, pale green, with saff'ron yellow juico. 



C. mSjus L. Lvs. pinnate ; Ifts. lobed, segments rounded ; fls. in umbels. — By 

 roadsides, fences, eta, arising 1 — 2f high. Lvs. smooth, glaucous, spreading, 

 consisting of 2—4 pairs of leaflets with an odd one. Lfts. IJ — 2|' long, | as 

 broad, irregularly dentate and lobed, the partial stalks winged at base. Umbels 

 thin, axillary, pedunculate. Petals elliptical, entire, yellow, and very fugacious, 

 like every other part of the flower. The abundant bright yellow juico is used to 

 cure itcli and destroy warta. May — Oct. § Bar. 



3. GLAUCIUM, Tourn. Horn Poppy. (Gr. yXavicbv, glaucous, the 

 hue of the foliage.) Sepals 2 ; petals 4 ; stamens oo ; stylo none, 

 stigma 2-lobed; ped. 2-celled, linear, very long, rough. — (J) or @ sea- 

 green herbs, with clasping lvs., yellow juice, and solitary, yellow fls. 



G. liiteum Scop. Sparingly naturalized near the coast^ from the Potomac south- 

 ward. About 2f high, covered with a glaucous "bloom. St. glabrous. Lvs. 

 rapandly 5 — T-lobed, clasping so as to appear perfoliate. Pis. 2' broad, of short 

 duration, but many in succession, succeeded by a horn-shaped fruit, which is 

 rough with tubercles, and 6 — 9' in length. Jn. — Aug. § 



4. ARGEMONE, L. Prickly Poppy. (Qr. apysfia, a disease of the 

 eye, which this plant was supposed to cure.) Sepals 2 or 3, roundish, 

 acuminate, caducous ; petals ' 4 or 6, roundish, larger than the sepals ; 

 stamens oo, stigma sessile, capitate, 4 or 6-rayed ; capsule ovoid, prickly, 

 opening at the top by valves. — ® Herbs with yellow juico, spinous- 

 pinnatifid lvs., and showy fls. 



A. Mezlcdna L. Cal. prickly ; caps, prickly, 6-valved. — A weed-like plant, native 

 at the South and "West, § at the North. St. 2 — 3f high, branching, armed with 

 prickly spines. Lvs. 5 — T or 8' long, sessile, spinous on the margin and veins 

 beneath. Fla. axillary and terminEd, on short peduncles, 2 — 3' diam., yellow. 

 The juice becomes in air a fine gamboge-yellow, and is esteemed for jaundice, 

 cutaneous eruptions, sore eyes, fluxes, etc. July. — "Varieties occur with ochro- 

 leuoous fls. and with large white fls. (N. Car. Curtis.) 



5. MECONOPSIS, Viguier. Yellow Poppy. (Gr. firjKuv, a poppy; 

 (5^£f, resemblance.) Sepals 2, hirsute ; petals 4 ; stamens oo ; style con- 

 spicuous ; stigmas 4 — 6, radiating, convex, free ; capsule ovoid, 1-celled, 

 opening by four valves. — V- Herbs with a yellow juice, pinnately divided 

 lvs., and yellow fls. 



