P. SOMNÍFERUM, L. (COMMON POPPY.) _Smooth_, glaucous; leaves clasping, wavy, incised and toothed; _pod globose_; corolla mostly white or purple.--Near dwellings in some places. (Adv. from Eu.) P. DÙBIUM, L. (SMOOTH-FRUITED CORN-POPPY.) Pinnatifid leaves and the long stalks _bristly; pods club-shaped, smooth_; corolla light scarlet.--Cult. grounds, Westchester, Penn., and southward; rare. (Adv. from Eu.) P. ARGEMÒNE, L. (ROUGH-FRUITED C.) Smaller, with finer-cut leaves and paler flowers than the last; _pods club-shaped and bristly_.--Waste grounds, near Philadelphia. (Adv. from Eu.) 6. ARGEMÒNE, L. PRICKLY POPPY. Sepals 2 or 3, often prickly. Petals 4--6. Style almost none; stigmas 3--6, radiate. Pod oblong, prickly, opening by 3--6 valves at the top. Seeds crested.--Annuals or biennials, with prickly bristles and yellow juice. Leaves sessile, sinuate-lobed, and with prickly teeth, often blotched with white. Flower-buds erect, short-peduncled. (Name from ἄργεμα, a disease of the eye, for which the juice of a plant so called by the Greeks was a supposed remedy.) 1. A. platýceras, Link & Otto. Setose-hispid all over; petals white, 1½--2´ long; capsule armed with stout spines.--Central Kan. and Neb., south and westward. A. MEXICÀNA, L. (MEXICAN P.) Flowers yellow, rarely white.--Waste places, southward. July--Oct. (Adv. from trop. Amer.) (Addendum)--ARGEMONE MEXICANA. Collected at Merodosia, Ill., with white flowers, by _A. B. Seymour_. ORDER 9. FUMARIÀCEÆ. (FUMITORY FAMILY.) _Delicate smooth herbs, with watery juice, compound dissected leaves, irregular flowers, with 4 somewhat united petals, 6 diadelphous stamens, and 2-merous pods and seeds like those of the_ Poppy Family.--Sepals 2, small and scale-like. Corolla flattened, closed; the 4 petals in two pairs; the outer with spreading tips, and one or both of them spurred or saccate at the base; inner pair narrower, and their callous crested tips united over the stigma. Stamens in two sets of 3 each, placed opposite the larger petals, hypogynous; their filaments often united; middle anther of each set 2-celled, the lateral ones 1-celled. Pod 1-celled, either 1-seeded and indehiscent, or several-seeded with 2 parietal placentæ and deciduous valves.--Leaves delicate, usually alternate, without stipules. Slightly bitter, innocent plants. [*] Corolla bigibbous or 2-spurred, the 2 outer petals alike. Pod several-seeded. 1. Adlumia. Petals united into a spongy persistent subcordate corolla. Seeds crestless. 2. Dicentra. Corolla cordate or 2-spurred at base, less united. Seeds crested. [*][*] Corolla with but one petal spurred at base, deciduous. 3. Corydalis. Pod with few to many crested or arilled seeds. 4. Fumaria. Fruit a globular 1-seeded nutlet. Seed crestless. 1. ADLÙMIA, Raf. CLIMBING FUMITORY.