THE POPPY FAMILY 
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with a long, narrow seedcase (ovary), a short style, and a 2-lobed stigma. Capsule long, narrow, 
pod-like, opening from top to base by 5 valves. Herbs with a bluish bloom and yellow juice. 
Yellow Horned-Poppy. (Glaucium flavum, Crantz.)— The only British species (as 
just described). The petals rich yellow, falling very quickly (fugacious), and the capsules long, 
narrow, and horn-like, crowned with the 2-lobed stigma. The stem 1-2 feet high, erect, much 
branched, fleshy, smooth ; the leaves of the root (radical) numerous, deeply lobed to the mid-rib 
(pinnatifid) ; those of the stem less deeply lobed and half clasping the stem (semi-amplexicaul), all 
wavy, thick, and rough, with short, thick, white hairs. The whole plant has a bluish bloom, and 
an orange-coloured juice with a disagreeable smell. [ Plate 7. 
Fairly common on sandy or shingly sea-shores in England and Wales. June— September. 
Biennial. 
*VIOLET HORNED POPPY. (RCEMERIA, MEDIC.) — Not a native. A similar genus to the 
Horned Poppy, with a similar long, horn-like capsule, opening from top to base by the same 
number of valves as there are stigmas, differing, however, in having no style, and in being crowned 
with a 3-4 rayed stigma. 
*Common Violet Horned Poppy. (Rcemeria hybrida, DC.)— The only species found 
in Britain. The flowers are large, 2^-3 inches across, violet, the long horn-like capsule crowned 
with a 3-rayed stigma and opening by 3 valves, and the leaves lobed to the mid-rib, and again 
and again similarly lobed (tri-pinnatifid). 
Naturalised in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. Chalky fields or pits. May — June. Annual. 
Very rare and not a native. 
CELANDINE. (CHELIDONIUM, LINN.) — A genus consisting of the one species. 
Greater Celandine. (Chelidonium majus, Linn.)— Flowers small, yellow, stalked, in 
terminal clusters of 3-8 together, all starting from the same point on the main stalk (simple umbel). 
Sepals 2, brightly coloured, like petals (petaloid), falling quickly ; petals 4, yellow ; stamens many ; 
carpel 1, with a long, narrow seedcase (ovary), a very short style, and a stigma with 2 spreading 
lobes. Capsule narrow, pod-like, opening from the base to the top by 2 valves. Stem 2-3 feet 
high, branched, brittle, containing an orange-yellow juice. Leaves divided to the mid-rib into 5-7 
distinct broad leaflets (pinnate), which are more or less deeply scalloped (crenated). \Plate 7. 
Common. Waysides and waste places near houses. May — September. Perennial. 
