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3. Glaucium (Horned Poppy) 

 I. G. Inteum (Yellow Horned Poppy).— Po<f rougliish ; leaves 

 embracing the stem, wavy, very rough and glaucous. A hand- 

 some plant, conspicuous on the sandy seashore, with its hoary 

 foliage and large yellow flowers. The pods are cylindrical, 

 6-10 inches long^ and might at first sight he mistaken for fiower- 

 stems bare of leaves ; juice yellow. — Fl. June to August. Bi- 



4. Chelidonium (Celandine) 



I. C. majus (Common or Greater Celandine). — The only 

 British species ; not uncommon in waste places and among ruins, 

 bearing its yellow flowers, which are much smaller than those 

 of any others of the Poppy tribe, in stalked umbels ; the leaves 

 are irregularly pinnate, slightly hairy, and abound, as well as 

 the rest of the plant, m an orange-coloured juice, which is a violent 

 acrid poison. It is a popular remedy for warts, and has been 

 employed successfully in removing films from the cornea of the 

 eye — a property which, Pliny tells us, was discovered by swal- 

 lows ; and hence it derived its name from chelidon, a swallow. 

 According to the same author it comes into flower at the time 

 when those birds arrive, and fades at their departure. — Per- 

 ennial. The Lesser Celandine is a species of Ranunculus, and 

 bears little resemblance, either in appearance or properties, to 

 the present plant. 



5. Rgemeria (Violet Horned Poppy) 



1. R. hybrida (Common Rcemeria, Violet Horned Poppy). — 

 Distinguished by its purple-red floivers, and its capsules, which 

 are 3-valved and 2-3 inches long, with a few hairs. Not indi- 

 genous, but naturalized in cornfields m Norfolk and Cambridge- 

 shire. — Annual. 



Natural Order V 

 FUMARIACEiE.— The Fumitory Tribe 



Sepals 2, deciduous, minute ; petals 4, irregular, the outer two 

 more or less united, and swollen or spurred at the base, the inner 

 two smaller and crested ; stamens 6, in two sets ; ovary i-celled ; 

 style threadlike ; stigma lobed ; sced-vessds i or 2-seeded ; seeds 

 shining, crested. Herbaceous plants, with brittle stems, and 

 watery juice, growing mostly in temperate climates. Closely 

 alhed to the Poppies, from which they may well be distinguished 

 by their irregular coroUas. and watery (not milky) juice. 



I. CoRYDALis (Fumitory). -Pf/,i/s 4, of which one is spurred 



