20 FAPAVERACEJE. 



deciduous. Stamens numerous, hypogynous. Stigma very 

 large, peltate, persistent, covering the ovary and stamens, 

 in the form of an umbrella, petal-like, 5 angled, 5 rayed j 

 the 5 delicate rays terminating under the angles in as many 

 hooks. Capsule 5-celled, 5-valved, many seeded. — Pert* 

 nials, yellowish, green and purplish. Flowers large, solitary 

 on scapes. 



1. S. PURPUREA, L. Side-saddle Flower. ITunttman's Cvp. 



Leaves (ascidia) pitcher-shaped, inflated, contracted at the mouth, curved, 

 seconding, broadly winged on the inner, (or upper) side; hood erect,, open, round, 

 heart-shapad. 



Sphagnous swamp?. Bear Meadows. Centre Co. Blackholc Valley. Lycoming 

 Co. June. July. A singular plant bearing curious pitcher-shaped Leaves, from 

 C to 9 inches "long, hollow, swelling in the middle, with a wing-like appendage 

 extending the whole length inside, ^ to 1 inch wide, and extended on the outside 

 of the mouth into a kind of a blade, covered above with reversed hairs : usually 

 half filled with water and drowned insects. Scape 14 to 20 inches high, terete, 

 smooth, supporting a single, large, purple, nodding flower, which is almoet m 

 curious in its structure as the leaves. 



Order 10. PAPAVERACE33. 



Herbs with milly or colored juke, alternate, simple or divvied leaves, without 

 titipulcs ; and regular jloiccrs with fugacious sepals; polyandrous. hypogyno.it ; 

 having a 1-ceUed pod with 2 or more parietal placcnUr. Flowers solitary, an long 

 peduncles, never blue. Sepals 2. rarely 3. falling off when the flower expand*. 

 Petals 4 to 12, spreading, imbricate in the bud, deciduous. Stamens numeronSi 

 16 or more, distinct, rarely polydelphous. Ovary solitary; style short: stigmas 2, 

 or if more, stellate upon the flat apex of the ovary. Fruit either poJ-shapod or 

 capsular. 



1. SANGUINAPJA. Linn. Bloodroot. 



Lat. sanguis, blood: in allusion to the color of its juice. 



Sepals 2, caducous. Petals 8 to 12, in 2 series, spatu- 

 late-oblong, the inner narrower. Stamens about 24. Style 

 short ; ttigma 2-lobed or connate. Capsule pod-like, oblong, 

 1-celled, 2-valved, ventricose; valves deciduous: Seeds 

 numerous, with a large crest. — A low perenkzl with thick 

 prostrate root stocks filled with a red-orange acrid juice. 



1. S. Canadensis, L. Blood-root. Red Fuccoon. 



Leaves radical, reniform or cordate, with roundish lobes, separated by roundish 

 sinuses. 



Open woods and rocky places : common. April. May. A smooth pretty plant 

 Bending up in early spring a scape about 6 inches high, with a single white flower 

 appearing in advance of the single large glaucous leaf. Flowers quadrangular 

 in outline, scentless, and of short duration. 



2. MECONOPSIS, DC. 



Or. melcon ; a poppy : and apsis, appearance : resembling the poppy. 



