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POPULAR FLORA. 



8. POPPY FAMILY. Order PAPAVERACEiE. 



Herbs witli 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, which 

 fall when the blossom 

 opens, but 4 (or in one 

 case 8 or 12) petals, 

 which fall early. Sta- 

 mens many, on the re- 

 ceptacle. Pistil one, 

 compound, but almost al- 

 ways one-celled, many- 

 seeded, the seeds borne 

 on the walls or on pro- 

 jections from them (pa- 

 rietal). Esi'h.«choltzia is 

 remarkable for its calyK 

 shaped like a pointed 

 cap or a candle-extin- 

 guisher. — In most cases 

 we have only one spe- 

 cies of each genus. 



'275 A flower-bud castin? ils calyx, 

 and, 276 , a flower of Poppy . 



573 

 f Celandine open- 

 ing. 278. Frame of the 

 aame, turned flatwise, and 

 seeds still on it. 



281 279 



279. Flower-bud, &c. 

 of Esohsclioltiia. 



280. The cap-shaped 

 calyx fallen otT. 



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 n flat 

 sessile cap. Pod hard, opening by pores under the edge of the cap of 

 stigmas, [Papaver) * Poppy. 



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, (Argemone) Pricklt-Poppy. 



Pod bristly. Sty le present : stigmas 3 or 4, {Stylophorum) Celandine-Poppy. 



Pod smooth, slender (Fig. 277): stigmas 2, {Cheliddnium) Celandine. 



Ovary and long narrow pod 2-ceIled by a thick partition in which the seeds are em- 

 bedded; stigma 2-horned, (Glaucium) * Hoen-Poppy. 

 Petals not crumpled in the bud, which does not nod. 



Petals 8 to 12, narrow, white. Pod oblong. Juice orange-red, (Sanguinaria) Bloodroot- 



Petals 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 3 to 7, slender, unequal. Pod many-ribbed. Juice 

 watery, colorless, but strong-scented, * Eschscholtzia. 



