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III. CELANDINE. CHELIDONIUM. 



Ovary linear, ending in a short style, with a small, slightly 2-lobed 

 stigma. Capsule long and linear, opening from the base upwards in 

 two valves, the placentas inconspicuous. Seeds with a small crest-like 

 appendage next the hilum. 



A genus now reduced to a single species. 



1. Common Celandine. Chelidonium majus, Linn. (Fig. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1581.) 



Eootstock perennial. Stems erect, 

 slender, branching, 1 to 2 feet high, full 

 of a yellow fetid juice, and generally 

 bearing a few spreading hairs. Leaves 

 thin, glaucous underneath, once or twice 

 pinnate, the segments ovate, coarsely 

 toothed or lobed, the stalks often dilated 

 into a kind of false stipules. Elowers 

 small and yellow, 3 to 6 together, in a 

 loose umbel, on a long peduncle. Pod 

 nearly cylindrical, glabrous, 1J to 2 

 inches long. 



Onroadsides and waste places, through- 

 out Europe and Eussian Asia, except the 

 extreme north. In Britain, chiefly near 

 villages and old ruins. Erequent in 

 England and some parts of Ireland, less 

 so in Scotland. Fl. all summer. 



41.) 



Fig. 41. 



TV. RCEMERIA. ECEMERIA. 



Ovary linear, with a sessile stigma of 3 or 4 short rays. Cap- 

 sule long and linear, opening from the summit downwards in 3 or 4 

 valves, the placentas inconspicuous. Seeds without any crest-like ap- 

 pendage. 



A genus of two or three species, from the east Mediterranean region, 

 perhaps all mere varieties of one. 



1. Common Roemeria. Rcemeria hybrida, DC. (Eig. 42.) 



(Chelidonium, Eng. Bot. t. 201.) 



An annual very much resembling the pale Poppy in habit and fo- 

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