706 452. Papaver. 82. PAPAVERACEiE. PL ex. that. 
Stem 3 feet high; leaves simple, lobed; petals white, 
plain, streaked, marbled, or with a dark spot at the bot- 
tom; stigma 10 or 12-rayed; seeds white. — Capsules, in de- 
coction, emollient; seeds oily, formerly used in emulsions, 
also strewed on cakes, yield an oil sold for that of the olive ; 
juice of the capsule dried (English opium), as also the ex- 
tract, and syrup of the dried capsules without the seeds, 
are in great use as narcotic, hypnotic, and stupefacient, 
Fam. XVII. 83. NYMPHiEACEiE. R. A. Salisbury. 
Calyx 4 or 5-sepaled, inserted on the thalamus ; petals and 
stamens disposed in many series alternate to the sepales ; 
stamens many, indefinite; anthers adnate, 2-celled; style 0; 
stigmata 8 or 10, radiated; ovary (in natives) 1, free, many- 
celled ; pericarpiam dry, valveless ; seeds ovate ; perisperm 
farinaceous ; corculum topshaped. — Plants herbaceous, 
aquatic ; stem thick, creeping ; leaves longly petioled, pel- 
tately ribbed ; peduncles 1 -flowered; hractece 0. 
Sepales larger than the petals ; 
petals nectariferous ; filaments linear Nuphar. 453. 
Sepales smaller than the petals; 
stigma nectariferous; inner filament 
dilated Nymphasa. 454. 
I. 453. NUPHAR. R. A. Salisbury. Water-can. 
Calyx 4 or 5-sepaled ; petals many, nectariferous on the 
back, inserted on the receptacle ; stamens very numerous ; 
filaments linear; stigmata 8 or 10, linear; berry ovate, 
barked, 8 or 10-celled. — Flowers yellow, exserted above 
the water. 
1. Nuphar luteum. Yellow water-can. 
Calyx 5-sepaled ; stigmata not toothed ; petiole 2-edged ; 
leaves heartshape, lobes coming close together. 
Nymphoea lutea, Raii Syn. 368, 1 ; Ger. em. 819, 2; Lin. S. P. 729. 
Nymphaea major lutea, Park. 1252. 
Nuphar luteum, Salisbury , Ann. Bot. 2, 69. 
Yellow water lilly. 
Rivers and stagnant waters ; perennial; July. 
Leaves blunt, smooth, edge not cut ; scape round ; sepales 
coloured; petals yellow, smelling like brandy, shorter than 
the sepales ] filaments all linear ‘.fruit ovate, beaked. — Roots 
poisonous to crickets and moles; the infusion useful in 
leprosy. 
