It COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



Order VIII. PAPAVERA'CEiE. (Poppy Family.) 



Herbs, with milky or coloured juice and alternate leaves 

 without stipules. Flowers polyandrous, hypogynous. Sepals 

 2, caducous. Petals 4-12. Stamens numerous, anthers in- 

 trra-se.- Fruit a 1-celled pod (in Poppy imperfectly many- 

 celled), with numerous seeds. 



Synoiisls of tlic Kencrn. ^ 



1. Chclido'iiinin. Juice yellow. Petals 4, crumpled in the Imd, 



yellow. 

 '■!. Sangnlnn'ria. Juice red. Petals 8-12, not crumpled in llie bud, 



white. 

 .?. Papa'vcr. Juice milky. Petals mostly 4. Ovary imperfectly 



many-celled. Stigmas united into a i-adiate sessile crown. 



1. CIIELIDO'NIIJItl, L. CELANDINE. 



C. majUS, L. Petals 4, deciduous, crumpled in the bud. 

 Juice of the plant yellow. Flower-buds nodding. Flowers 

 small, yellow, in a kind of umbel. Fruit a smooth i-eelled 

 slender pod, from which the two valves fall away, leaving 

 the parietal placentas as a slender framework, with the 

 seeds attached. — Waste places. 



«. SANCVIKA'RIA, Dill. BLOOD-KOOT. 

 S. Canadensis, L. Petals 8-12, not crumpled in the bud. 

 Flower-buds not nodding. A stemless plant, with a thick 

 rhizome which emits a red juice when cut, and sends up in 

 early spijpg a single rounded, 5-7-lobed, thickish leaf, and 

 a 1-flowered scape. Flowers white. — Eich woods. 



S. PAPA'VKR, Tourn. Poppy. 



1. P. somnif erum, L. (Common Poppy.) Smooth aiid 

 glaucous. Leaves clasping, wavy, cuWtoothed. Pod globose. 

 Petals white or purple, the buds ntdding. — Waste places 

 and old gardens. ■* 



2. P. Rhoe'as, L. (Corn Poppy.) Sparingly hispid. 

 Leaves deeply pinnatifid, the lobes out-toothed. Pod 

 globular, smooth. Corolla 2-4 inches in diameter, scarlet, 

 often with u. dark centre. — Waste- heaps, Atl. Prov. 



