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IV. PAPAVERACE.3E. 
\_Pa paver. 
Lakes and ditches, frequent. 1 7. — Flowers large, smelling 
somewhat like hrandy ; which circumstance, in conjunction with its 
flagon-shaped seed-vessels, has led to the name Brandy-bottle. 
2. N. pumila DC. ( least Y.) ; leaves cordate the lobes ap- 
proximate, anthers oblong, stigma (green) with 8 or 10 teeth 
and as many (yellow) rays, fruit furrowed upwards. N. minima. 
E. B. t. 2292. 
In several of the small Highland lakes, Mugdock, near Glasgow. 
Chartners Lough, Northumberland? TJ-. 7, 8. — From the observa- 
tions made by Dr. Torrey and Gray, it would seem doubtful if this 
were essentially distinct, not merely from N. Kalmiana, but even from 
N. lutea, and some others. The English plant we have not seen : it 
is said to have the stigma of N. lutea, of which it may be only a 
small-flowered form. 
Obd. IV. rAPAVERACE/E Juss. 
Calyx of 2 rarely 3 deciduous sepals. Corolla of 4 rarely 5 
or 6 petals. Stamens indefinite. Onary 1 -celled. Stigma lobed 
or rayed. Fruit dry, with 2 or more parietal usually project- 
ing placentas, forming complete or incomplete dissepiments, 
hence 1- or several-celled, many-seeded. Embryo in the base 
of a fleshy albumen. — Herbaceous plants. Leaves alternate . — 
Opium is the product of this tribe, which largely afford a milky, 
acrid, and narcotic juice; while the seeds of all, except Arge- 
mone Mexicana , are mild and oleaginous. In all the species 
the petals are crumpled in aestivation except in Sanguinaria, 
where they are 8 — 10 in number. 
* Fruit globose, oblong, or clavate. Stigma rayed. 
1. Papavf.r. Placentas lamelliform, projecting to near the axis. Stigma 
sessile. 
2. Meconopsis. Placentas filiform. Style short but evident. 
** Fruit linear, elongated. Stigma 2 — A-lobed. 
3. Glaucium. Placentas 2, spongy, meeting in the axis. Pod 2-valved, 
opening from the apex. Seeds not crested. 
4. Rcemeria. Placentas 3 — 4 (in Brit, sp.), scarcely projecting. Pod 
3 — 4-valved, opening from the apex. Seeds not crested. 
5. Chelidonium. Placentas 2, filiform. Pod 2-valved, opening from 
the base. Seeds crested. 
* Fruit globose, oblong, or clavate. Stigma rayed. 
1. Papaver Linn. Poppy. 
Sepals 2 rarely 3. Pet. 4 rarely 6. Stigma sessile, radiated. 
Caps, with the seeds on parietal placentas projecting towards 
the centre of the single cell, and escaping by pores beneath the 
permanent rayed sessile stigma . — Named because it is adminis- 
tered with pap (j)apa , in Celtic) to induce sleep. 
