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DOMESTIC BOTANY. 



on the coasts of continental Europe and North America. 

 Like most seaside plants, it is of a glaucous hue, having showy 

 yellow flowers, succeeded by seed-pods 4 or 5 inches in 

 length, curved like horns. 



Celandine {Chelidonium majus). A bushy perennial, with 

 small yellow flowers, attaining the height of 2 feet, native of 

 Britain, found throughout Europe, and introduced into North 

 America. The whole plant contains a thick juice of a yel- 

 lowish colour, which is employed by rustics for removing 

 warts, &c. ; diluted with milk it is used as an eyewash. 



Sanguinaria Canadensis. A pretty herbaceous plant, native 

 of North America, not more than 6 inches high, producing 

 showy white flowers early in the spring. It has thick 

 branching roots, which yield a yellow pigment, used as a 

 dye ; also by the Indians to colour their bodies, and for rude 

 paintings. 



Papaver orientale and P. hracteatum, strong-growing 

 perennials, natives of Asia Minor, are showy garden plants 

 with red flowers, and are with Peony the largest-flowering 

 herbs grown in the open air in this country. 



THE WATER LILY AND SACRED BEAN 

 ALLIANCE. 



The Water Lily Family. 



(Nymphs ACE^). 



Aquatics, growing in deep water, having a thick creeping 

 or erect bulb-like rhizomat. Leaves heart-shaped or circular, 

 floating on or growing above the surface of the water. Flowers 

 solitary, on a long scape, large and showy. Sepals 4 or 5. 

 Petals numerous, decreasing in size towards the centre, and 

 becoming stamens, which are also numerous, and with the 

 petals seated on a disk, in some forming a tube. Pistil 1, 

 with a rayed stigma, or wanting, with the stigmas lining the 

 tube (as in Victoria). Fruit capsule-like, without valves, 

 containing numerous seeds. 



