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POLYPETALOUS OEDEKS. 
5, persistent, with three small bracts at the base. Petals 5, 
concavr^. iStamsns numerous. Ovary 5-celled, persistent ; style 
single ; stigma large and petaloid, 5-angled. ^ Fruit 5-celled, 
with a large placenta projecting into the cavity of the cells. 
Seeds numerous, albuminous ; embryo small. 
Genus. — Sarracenia. 
Fig. 174, a, Saruacenia 'purpu- 
rea (Side-saddle flower) ; 6, a leaf 
cut across ; c, diagram of the aisti- 
vation including an enlarged trans- 
verse section of the ovary ; (/, ver- 
tical section of the whole pistil, 
enlarged. 
409. PAPAVERACEiE, tlie 
Poppy Tribe. — Ilerhs with 
milky or colored juice. 
Leaves alternate, witliout 
stipules. Flowers solitary, 
on long peduncles. Cahpi 
of 2 caducous sepals. Pet- 
als usually 4, or some 
multiple of 4, cruciate, reg- 
ular. Stamens numerous, 
sometimes a multiple of 4. Ovary solitary ; style short or none ; 
stigmas 2 or many ; in the latter case, stellate upon the flat 
apex of the ovary. Fruit either silique-form, with 2, or capsu- 
lar, with several parietal placentge. Seeds numerous ; embryo 
minute, at the base of fleshy and oily albumen. 
Properties : narcotic, anodyne. 
Genera. — Papaver, Argemone, Sanguinaria, Glaucium, 
mecon, Platystemon, Chryseis, Meconopsis. 
Fig. 175, a, R(EMERiA refracta ; b, its stamens and 
pistil ; c, a cross section of a ripe capsule. 
Chelidonium, Dendro- 
Fig. 175. 
410. FuMAKiACE^, the Fumitory Ti'ibe. — 
Herbaceous plants, with brittle stems and 
a watery juice. Leaves alternate, multifid, 
without stipules. Sepals 2, deciduous. 
Petals 4, irregular, cruciate, one or both 
of the outer gibbous at the base, the two 
inner cohering at the apex. Stamens 6, in 
two parcels, opposite the outer petals ; 
anthers membraneous, the outer of each 
parcel 1-celled, the middle one 2-celled. 
Ovary free, 1-celled. Fruit an achenium, or siliqua. 
with fleshy albumen ; embryo small. 
Genera. — Diclytra, Adlumia, Corydalis, Fumaria. 
411. Crucifek^, the Cruciferous Tribe. — Herbaceous plants, 
with a pungent or acrid watery juice. Leaves alternate, with- 
Seeds 
