The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and TennesseeGray, Asa
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The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee
Gray, Asa
Plants -- United States
1. S. purpùrea, L. (SIDE-SADDLE FLOWER. PITCHER-PLANT. HUNTSMAN'S CUP.)
_Leaves pitcher-shaped_, ascending, curved, broadly winged; the hood
erect, open, round heart-shaped; _flower deep purple_; the fiddle-shaped
petals arched over the greenish-yellow style.--Varies rarely with
greenish-yellow flowers, and without purple veins in the
foliage.--Peat-bogs; common from N. Eng. to Minn., N. E. Iowa, and
southward east of the Alleghanies. June.--The curious leaves are
usually half filled with water and drowned insects. The inner face of
the hood is clothed with stiff bristles pointing downward. Flower
globose, nodding on a scape a foot high; it is difficult to fancy any
resemblance between its shape and a side-saddle, but it is not very
unlike a pillion.
2. S. flàva, L. (TRUMPETS.) _Leaves long (1--3°) and trumpet-shaped_,
erect, with an open mouth, the erect hood rounded, narrow at the base;
wing almost none; _flower yellow_, the petals becoming long and
drooping.--Bogs, Va. and southward. April.
ORDER 8. PAPAVERÀCEÆ. (POPPY FAMILY.)
_Herbs with milky or colored juice, regular flowers with the parts in
twos or fours, fugacious sepals, polyandrous, hypogynous, the ovary
1-celled with two or more parietal placentæ._--Sepals 2, rarely 3,
falling when the flower expands. Petals 4--12, spreading, imbricated and
often crumpled in the bud, early deciduous. Stamens rarely as few as 16,
distinct. Fruit a dry 1-celled pod (in the Poppy imperfectly
many-celled, in Glaucium 2-celled). Seeds numerous, anatropous, often
crested, with a minute embryo at the base of fleshy and oily
albumen.--Leaves alternate, without stipules. Peduncles mostly
1-flowered. Juice narcotic or acrid.
[*] Petals 8--12, not crumpled in the bud, white. Pod 1-celled,
2-valved.
1. Sanguinaria. Petals white. Leaves and 1-flowered scape from a short
rootstock.
[*][*] Petals 4, crumpled in the bud. Pod 2-valved or more.
[+] Pod 2--4-valved, the valves separating to the base from the
placentas. Leaves pinnately parted. Flowers yellow.
2. Stylophorum. Pod bristly; style distinct; stigmas and placentas 3--4.
3. Chelidonium. Pod linear, smooth; style almost none; stigmas and
placentas 2.
4. Glaucium. Pod rough, long-linear, 2-celled by a spongy partition;
style none.
[+][+] Pod 4--20-valved, dehiscent only at the top or to the middle.
5. Papaver. Ovary incompletely many-celled; stigmas united into a
radiate sessile crown.
6. Argemone. Stigmas (sessile) and placentas 4--6. Pod and leaves
prickly.
1. SANGUINÀRIA, Dill. BLOOD-ROOT.
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