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1. PAPItER, L. PoprT. 



Sepals mostly 2. Petals mostly 4. Stigmas united in - flat 4:-20-rayed 

 crown, resting on the summit of the ovary and capsule ; the latter short and 

 turgid, with 4-20 many-seeded placentas projecting like imperfect partitions, 

 opening hy as many pores or chinks under the edge of the stigma. — Herbs 

 with a white juice; the flower-buds nodding. (Derivation obscure.) — Two 

 species of the Old World are spai'iugly adventive ; viz. 



1. P. somnIfeedm, L. (Common Poppy.) ® Smooth, glaucous ; leaves 

 clasping, wavy, incised and toothed ; pod globose ; coroUa mostly white or pur- 

 ple. — Near dwellings in some places. (Adv. from Eu.) 



2. P. DtJBiUM, L. (SMOOTH-FEniTED Conu-Porpy.) d) Pinnatifld leaves 

 and tlie long stalks biistly ; pods club-shaped, smooth ; corolla light scarlet. — 

 Cult, grounds, Westchester, Penn. and southward : rare. (Adv. from Eu.) 



2. AROEJUOlVi:, L. Peickly Poppy. 



Sepals 2 or 3. Petals 4-6. Style almost none : stigmas 3 - 6, radiate. Pod 

 oblong, prickly, opening by 3 - 6 valves at the top. Seeds crested. — Herbs, 

 with prickly bristles and yellow juice. Leaves sessile, sinuate-lobed, and with 

 pi'ickly teeth, blotched with white. Plower-buds erect, short-peduncled. (Name 

 from dpyffia, a disease of the eye, for which the juice was a supposed remedy.) 



1. A. MexicXna, L. (Mexican Pkickly Poppy.) ® © Flowers sol- 

 itary (pale yellow or white); calyx prickly. — Waste places; not common. 

 July- Oct. (Adv. from trop. Amer.) 



3. STYIiOPHORlTM, Nutt. Celandiite Poppy. 



Sepals 2, haiiy. Petals 4. Style distinct, columnar: stigma 3-4-lobed. 

 Pod ovoid, bristly, 3-4-valved to the base. Seeds conspicuously crested. — 

 Perennial herb, with pinnatifld or pinnately divided leaves like Celandine, the 

 uppermost in pairs, subtending one or more slender 1-flowered peduncles; the 

 buds and pods nodding. Juice yellow. Corolla yellow. (Name from ariXos, 

 a style, and (pepat, to bear ; indicating one of its charactere.) 



1. S. dipliylllllil, Nutt. (Mecondpsis diphylla, DC] — Woods, W. 

 Pcnn. to Wisconsin and Kentucky. May. — Divisions of the leaves 5-7, sinu- 

 ate-lobed. Flower 2' broad. 



4. CIIE1.II>6]VIITM, L. Celandine. 



Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stamens 16-24. Style neariy none : stigma 2-lobed. 

 Pod linear, slender, smooth, 2-valved, the valves opening from the bottom up- 

 wards. Seeds crested. — Perennial herbs, with brittle stems, saffron-colored acrid 

 juice, pinnately divided or 2-pinnatifid and toothed or cut leaves, and small yel- 

 low flowers. (Name from xe\iSa>v, the Swallow, because, according to Dios- 

 corides, it begins to flower at the time the swallows appear.) 



1. C. Mijus, L. (Celandine.) Plowei-s several, in umbel-like clustei-s. — 

 Waste gniunds near dwellings. May- Aug. (Adv. from Eu.) 

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