122 POPULAR FLORA. 
8. POPPY FAMILY. Order PAPAVERACES. 
Herbs with a milk-white, yellow, or reddish juice (colorless in’ Eschscholtzia), which is 
bitter or acrid and. poisonous, alternate leaves, and flowers remarkable for having only 2 
(rarely 3) sepals, whick 
fall when the blossom 
opens, but 4 (or in one 
, , ee 8 or 12) petals, 
~ which fall early. Sta- 
ma mens many, on the re- 
ceptacle. Pistil one, 
| {) compound, but almost al- 
{ 
ways one-celled, many- 
seeded, the’seeds borne 
a on the walls or on pro- 
jections from them (pa- 
rietal). Eschscholtzia is 
279 
remarkable for its calyx 
shaped like a pointed 
cap or a candle-extin- 
278 pit 
25 | (T6 isk I 
uisher. — In most cases 
275. A flower-bud casting itecalyx, 277. PodofCelandine open- 279. Flower-bud, &c. g 
and, 276, a flower of Poppy. ing. 278. Frame of the of Eschacholtzia, we have only one spe- 
same, turned flatwise, and 280. The cap-shaped ; 
seeds still on it. calyx fallen offs cies of each genus. 
281. The pod. 
Petals 4, ‘crumpled or plaited in the bud, which nods before opening (except in the Prickly-Poppy). 
Ovary and pod incompletely several-celled, by plates or placentas projecting from 
the walls and covered with numberless seeds. Stigmas making a flat 
sessile cap. Pod hard, opening by pores under the edge of the cap of 
stigmas, : ‘(Papaver) * Porry. 
Ovary and pod strictly one-celled, opening by valves, and leaving the placentas as a ° 
slender frame between them. Flowers yellow, rarely white. 
Pod and.leaves prickly. Style none: stigmas 4 or 6, (Argeméne) PrickLy-Porpy. 
Pod bristly. Style present: stigmas 3 or 4, +  (Styléphorum) CELANDINE-POPPY. 
Pod smooth, slender (Fig. 277): stigmas 2, (Chelidonium) CELANDINE. 
Ovary and long narrow pod 2-celled by a thick partition in which the seeds are em- 
bedded; stigma 2-horned, (Glaucium) * Horn-Popry. 
Petals not crumpled in the bud, which does not nod. 
Petals 8 to 12, narrow, white. Pod oblong. Juice orange-red, (Sanguinaria) BuoopRoot. 
__Retals 4, broad, yellow. Sepals united into a pointed cap which falls off as a lid (Fig. 
280, 281). Receptacle or end of the flower-stalk expanded and top-: 
shaped. Stigmas 8 to 7, slender, unequal. Pod many-ribbed. Juice 
watery, colorless, but strong-scented, * ESCHSCHOLTZIA, 
