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20 THE POPPY FAMILY. 
A genus of two or three species, from the east Mediterranean region, 
perhaps all varieties of one. : : 
1, R. hybrida, DC. (fig. 43). Common R&.—An annual very much 
resembling Papaver Argemone in habit and foliage, and in its pale red- 
purplish flowers, but differing widely in its linear capsule, 14 to 2 or 3 
inches long, bearing a few erect, stiff hairs, and not divided into cells 
inside. 
A Mediterranean species, appearing occasionally as a cornfield weed 
in central Europe, and established as such in Norfolk and Cambridge- 
shire. Fl. with the corn. 
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V. GLAUCIUM. GLAUCIUM. 
Ovary linear, contracted at the top into a 2-lobed stigma. Capsule 
linear, opening in 2 valves, leaving 2 free linear placentas, forming a | 
thin, dry, spongy substance, in which the seeds are more or less im- 
bedded. 
The very few species comprised 1 in the genus besides Eke British one 
are from the Mediterranean region. 
1. G. luteum, Scop. (fig. 44). Horned Poppy, Sea Panne stout 
annual, with spreading branches, very glaucous in all its parts. Leaves 
thick, the radical ones stalked, pinnately lobed or divided, the lobes 
ovate or lanceolate, sinuate or lobed, rough with short thick hairs, the 
upper ones shorter, broader, less divided, and smoother. Flowers on 
short peduncles, large and yellow, the petals very fugacious. Pods 6 
to 10 or 12 inches long, crowned by the spreading lobes of the stigma. 
On sandy seashores, common all round the Mediterranean, and up 
the western coast of Hurope to Scandinavia. Frequent on the coasts 
of. England and Ireland, but decreasing much in Scotland. Fl. 
summer. 
V. FUMARIACEH. THE FUMITORY FAMILY. 
Delicate glabrous herbs, either annual or with a perennial 
rootstock ; the leaves much divided into distinct segments, and 
no stipules. Flowers very irregular. Sepals 2, small and 
scale-lke. Petals 4, in two pairs, the two outer united at the 
base and often one or both spurred; the two inner narrow, 
their crested tips united over the stigma. Stamens 6, hypo- 
gynous, united into 2 sets of 3 each, the middle anther of each 
set having 2 cells, the lateral ones 1 cell each. Ovary of a 
single cell, with 2 placentas and several ovules, at least in a 
very young stage. Fruit a l-seeded nut, or a pod with several 
seeds. Embryo small, at the base of the albumen. 
_ Asmall family, spread over the temperate regions of. the northern 
hemisphere, scarcely penetrating into the tropics, but reappearing in 
southern Africa. It is now generally referred as a tribe to Papaveracee, 
with which it agrees in the parts of the flower being in twos and in the 
structure of the ovary, but it differs so strikingly from the British 
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