ANALYTICAL DRAWINGS OF THE BARBERRY, POPPY, AND 
FUMITORY FAMILIES— continued. 
The fourth line analyses Papaver Rhoeas Linne, the Corn Poppy. Fig. i shows 
the essential organs, the numerous stamens, and the sub-globose ovary raised on a short 
stalk above the insertion of the fallen petals. Fig. 2 represents the ovary later ; 
Fig. 3, its upper surface with ten radiating stigmatic lines, the number of these 
varying from eight to twelve ; Fig. 4, a transverse section of the ovary enlarged, 
showing the partial septa, which do not meet in the middle and which have the 
ovules scattered over the whole of their inner surfaces {superficial placentation) ; 
Fig. 5, the ripe pore-capsule, showing the pores below the projecting stigmatic lobes ; 
and Fig. 6, a seed, magnified. 
The three figures in the fifth line represent the essential organs of the Welsh 
Poppy {Meconopsis cambrica Viguier), showing the ribbed ovary and club-shaped style, 
a cross section indicating six prominent but parietal placentas, and a seed. The seeds 
of Glaucium and Meconopsis are noteworthy, the former being furnished with curved 
ridges concentric to the hilum connected by numerous short radial ridges, thus 
forming curved rows of short parallel-sided pits ; whilst the latter are covered with 
a meshwork of mostly pentagonal ridges, or — which comes to the same thing — pitted 
all over with alveoli which are mostly five-sided. 
In the Family Fumariacecs, represented by the last two lines of figures on this 
Plate, the juice is watery, and the flowers are in racemes and generally mono- 
symmetric. There are two small, caducous sepals ; and four petals in two dissimilar 
pairs. A twist in the pedicel turns the flowers through 90*^, so that the outer pair 
of petals, originally lateral, become antero-posterior, the upper one having in 
Corydalis and Fumaria a spur, to hold the honey secreted by a spur-like glandular 
appendage of one of the stamens, and forming a sort of hood over the rest of the 
flower. The inner pair of petals cohere by their tips, so as to enclose the essential 
organs. Bees visiting the flowers for the honey depress the inner petals so that 
the essential organs emerge. The stamens are in two groups {diadelphous'), each 
consisting of one with a two-chambered anther and two lateral ones with half-anthers. 
The sixth row of figures represents Corydalis claviculata De Candolle. Fig. i 
is a flower, enlarged ; Fig. 2 shows an outer petal ; Fig. 3 shows an inner petal, 
deeply tinted at its apex ; Fig. 4, a staminal group ; Fig. 5, the gynaeceum ; and 
Fig. 6, the pod-like fruit. 
The last row of figures represents Fumaria officinalis Linne, Fig. i being a 
flower seen laterally ; Fig. 2, the inner petals ; Figs. 3 and 4, the unspurred and 
spurred outer petals ; and Fig. 5, a young fruit, with some remnants of the flower. 
Figs. 2-5 being enlarged. 
