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flowers; filaments slender. Pistillate flowers with 12-15 abor- 
tive stamens and a single globose ovary with a short style.* 
1. B. wstivale Nees. Spice Busu. A shrub, 5-15 ft. high, with 
smooth bark and slender twigs. Leaves oblong-obovate, acute at the 
base, pale and downy beneath, becoming smooth when old; petioles 
short. Flowers about as long as the pedicels, yellow, very fragrant. 
Ovary about as long as the style. Fruit an obovoid, red drupe, about 
4 in. long, on a slender pedicel. Banks of streams and damp woods. 
Twigs and leaves quite aromatic.* 
39. PAPAVERACEZ. Poppy FamILy 
Annual or perennial herbs, often with milky juice. Leaves 
sometimes all basal; stem leaves usually alternate without 
stipules. Flowers bisexual, regular or irregular. Sepals usu- 
ally 2, shed as the flower opens. Petals 4-12, falling early. 
Stamens numerous or 6 (in 2 sets), 4, or 2. Carpels 2-16. 
Fruit a capsule, 
I. ESCHSCHOLTZIA’ Cham. 
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves pale ar bluish-green, 
usually cut into very narrow divisions. Sepals united into a 
pointed cap, which falls off in one piece as the flower opens. 
Petals 4, orange or yellow. Stamens many, with long anthers. 
Stigmas 2-6, spreading. Pods long and slender, grooved. Re- 
ceptacle often surrounded by a rim on which the calyx rests. 
1. E. californica Cham. Annual or perennial, with rather succu- 
lent leafy stems. Flowers large and showy, yellow or orange-yellow. 
Receptacle top-shaped, with a broad rim. Cultivated from California. 
Il. SANGUINARIA L. 
Perennial. Rootstock thick, horizontal; joints and scars 
of previous growths persistent several years; juice orange- 
colored. Leaves on long petioles, kidney-shaped. Scape 1- 
flowered. Sepals 2, falling off as the flower opens. Petals 8- 
12. Ovary 1; stigmas 2. Capsule oblong, seeds crested.* 
1. S. canadensis L. BLooproot. Leaves and scape with a bloom ; 
leaves palmately 5-9-lobed, lobes rounded or toothed; scapes naked, 
nearly as long as the petioles. Flowers white, 1 in. or more wide. 
