178 PUMARIACBAE. 



2. Petals 1. Stamens very many. Ovary and capsule obovoid to Bubglobose, 

 with 4 to many intruded placentae. Capsule dehiscent just below the stig 

 matio Bummil by pores or valve-like openings. (Latin name of the poppy.) 



Juice milky: Stigmas sessile and radiate upon the summit of the ovary.. 1. P. calif orniciiin. 

 Juice yellow; stigmas capitate upon the short slender style "._'. /'. heterophyllum. 



1. P. calif ornicum (! ray. Western Poppy. Two ft high or less; gla- 

 brous or sparsely pilose-pubescent; juice milky; leaves pinnately divided, the 

 segments oblong or roundish, toothed or lobed or entire; petals red with a 

 green spot at base, 7 to 9 lines long; stigmas sessile and radiate upon the 

 summil of the ovary, persistent in fruit; capsule y 2 in. long or more, turbinate- 

 obovate, (5 to 11-nerved; pores or valve-like openings just beneath the stigmas, 

 quadrate. 



Mt. Tamalpais; otherwise of the southern part of the State from the Santa 

 Inez Mts. to Los Angeles. May. Most frequent where brush has been cleared, 

 cither by fire or the axe. 



2. P. heterophyllum (Benth.) Greene. Wind Poppy. One and one- 

 fourth to 2 ft. high, glabrous; juice yellow; leaves pinnate or pinnately cleft, 

 mi pinnate with j (innately cleft lobes, the segments exceedingly diverse in 

 shape on the same plant or even on the same leaf, varying from oval and 

 entire or lobed to narrowly linear; petals broadly cuneate-obovate, brick-red, 

 with a dark spot at base, 1 in. long or less; stigmas capitate at summit of a 

 distinct and slender style; capsule clavate-obovoid, 3 to 7 lines long; pores 

 small with rounded valves which separate from the stout parietal ribs. — 

 (Meconopsis heterophylla Benth.) 



Middle California: Berkeley; Livermore; Stockton; San Mateo; south- 

 ward to Southern California. May. Var. crassifolium Jepson. Blood Drops. 

 Plant smaller, more branching and with more numerous flowers ; leaves mainly 

 radical, smaller and thicker; flow r ers small, erect; style commonly longer than 

 in type. — Interior fields. 



FUMARIACEAE. Fumitory Family. 



Glabrous herbs with alternate compound dissected leaves and irregular per- 

 fect flowers borne in racemes. Sepals 2, small and scale-like. Petals 4, in 2 

 dissimilar pairs, the outer larger, inner pair narrower, carinate or crested on 

 the hack, cohering by the callous apex and covering the anthers and stigma. 

 Stamens in 2 sets of 3 each, placed opposite the outer petals, the filaments of 



each set usually united; middle anther of each Bet 2-celled, the lateral ones 

 l celled. Ovary superior. Capsule 1-celled, with 2 parietal rib-like placentae 

 from which tin- valves separate, or indehiscent. 



1. DICENTRA Bernh. Dutchman's Beebches. 



Perennial herbs with the stems and I. 'axes from a tuher-like. grain-bearing 

 or scaly crown. K lowers racemose or paniculate. Corolla flattened and cordate 



.-it base. Filaments of each set dilated ami united, but distinct at the very 

 base ami Blightly free above. (Greek .lis, twice, and kentron, a spur, some 



Species 2 spurred.) 



Sums leafy; flowers yellow: petals distinct 1- D. chrysantha. 



Acaulescent; -.rape naked: Dowers rose-purple; petals united 2. P. formosa. 



1. D. chrysantha II. & A. Glaucous plants with stiff coarse leafy stems 



'J to :*. ft. high; leaves bipinnate, '•_. t<» 1 ft. long or more, the divisions cleft 

 int.. narrow lol.es; Uowers yellow, in a large racemose panicle; corolla linear 



oblong, only slightly cordate, '._. in. long; petals distinct; capsule ■"•, to 114 



