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THE POPPY FAMILY. 



liage, and in its pale purplish flowers, 

 but differing widely in its linear capsule, 

 1^ 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 cen- 

 tral Europe, and said to be established 

 as such in Cambridgeshire. Fl. with the 



Fig, 42. 



Y. GIiAlXCXUM. GLAUCIUM. 



Ovary linear, contracted at the top into a 2-lobed stigma. Cap- 

 sule linear, opening in 2 valves, leaving 2 free linear placentas, form- 

 ing 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. Yellow G-laucium, Glaucium luteum, Scop. (Fig. 43.) 

 (Chelidonium Glaucium, Eng. Bot. t. 8. Horned Poppy. Sea Poppy.) 



A stout annual, with hard 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 fuga- 

 cious. 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. Fl. summer. 



