FUMITORY FAMILY. 4h 



P. RhCBas, Corn Poppy of Eu. Low, bristly, with almost pinnate 

 leaves, and deep red or scarlet flowers with a dark eye, or, when double, of 

 various colors ; pod obovate. 



P. obbium. Long-headed P. Leaves with their divisions more cut than 

 the last ; flowers smaller and lighter red, and pod oblong-clavate : run wild in 

 fields in Penn. 



* * Perennial : cult, far ornament : flowering in late spring. 

 P. OrientUe, Oriental P. Rough-hairy, ,with tall flower-stalks, almost 

 pinnate leaves, and a very large deep-red flower, under which are usually some 

 leafy persistent bracts. Var. bracteXtum, has these bracts larger, petals still 

 larger and deeper red, with a dark spot at the base. 



2. STTLOPHOEUM, CELANDINE POPPY. (Name means style- 

 bearer, expressing a difference between it and Poppy and Celandine.) U 



S. diph;;^llum. From Penn. W. in open woods ; resembling Celandine, 

 but low, and with far larger (yellow) flowers, in spring. 



3. CHELIDONIUM, CELANDINE. (From the Greek word for the 

 Swallow.) d) IJ. 



C. mdjus, the only species, in all gardens and moist waste places ; 1° - 4° 

 high,. branching, with pinnate or twice pinnatifid leaves, and small yellow flowers 

 in a sort of umbel, all sumin^r ; the pods long and slender. 



4. ARGEMONE, PRICKLY POPPY. (Meaning of name uncertain.) ® 



A. Mexicana, Mexican p. Waste places and gardens. Prickly, l°-2o 

 high ; leaves sinuate-lobed, blotched with white ; flowers yellow or yellowish, 

 pretty large, in summer. Var. ALBiFLdnA has the flower larger, sometimes 

 very large, white ; cult, for ornament. 



5. ESCHSCH6LTZIA. (Named for one of the discoverers, Eschscholtz, 

 the name easier pronoun'eed than written. ) ® 



E. Califdmica, Califomian annual, now common in gardens ; with pale 

 dissected leaves, and long-peduncled large flowers, remarkable for the top- 

 shaped dilatation at the base of the flower, on which the extinguisher-shaped 

 calyx rests : this is forced oflT whole by the opening petals. The latter ai-e 

 bright orange-yello#, and the top of the receptacle is broad-rimmed. Var. 

 DocglAsii wants this rim, and its petals are pure yellow, or sometimes white ; 

 but the sorts are much mixed in the gardens ; and there are smaller varieties 

 under different names. 



-6. SANGUINABIA, BLOOD-ROOT. (Name from the color of the 



juice.) U 



S. Canadensis, the common and only species ; wild in rich woods, hand- 

 some in cultivation. The thick red rootstock in early spring sends up a rounded- 

 reniform and palmate-lobed veiny leaf, wrapped around a flower-bud : as the leaf 

 comes out of ground and opens, the scape lengthens, and carries up the hand- 

 some, white, many-petaIled,flower. 



7. BOCCONIA. (Named in honor of an Italian botanist, Bocconi.) H. 



B. COrdd:ta, Cordate B., from China, the only hardy species ; a strong 

 root sending up very tall leafy stems, with round-cordate lobed leaves, which arc 

 veiny and glaucous, and large panicles of small white or pale rose-colored flow- 

 ers, late in summer. 



9. FtTMARIACE.^, FUMITORY FAMILY. 



Like the Poppy Family in the plan of the flowers ; but the 4- 

 petalled corolla much larger than the 2 scale-like sepals, also irreg- 

 ular and closed, the two inner and smaller petals united by their 



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