20 THE POPPY FAMILY. [Remeria, 
A genus of two or three species, from the east Tae oars region, 
perhaps all mere varieties. of one. | 
1. R. hybrida, DC. (fig. 43). Common Remeria,—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 a Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. 
Fl. with the corn. 
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 imbedded. 
The very few species comprised in the genus besides the British one, are 
from the Mediterranean region. 
1. G. luteum, Scop. (fig. 44). Horned Poppy, Sea Poppy.—A 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 Europe to Scandinavia. Frequent on the coasts of England 
and Ireland, but decreasing much in Scotland. 4. summer. 
V. FUMARIACEA. 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, s “small and 
scale-like. 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. 
A small family, spread over the temperate regions of the northern hemi- 
sphere, 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 genera of that 
