3. GLatcium (Horned Poppy).—Glaucous herbs with yellow
juice. Leaves lobed or cut; flowers on long stalks; carfels 2,
forming a long pod-like capsule; stzgma 2-lobed. (Name from
the gdaucous hue of the foliage.)

1. G. fldvum (Yellow Horned Poppy).—The only indigenous
British species. Leaves wavy, embracing the stem; fod 6—12
in. long, curved, with minute tubercles. A handsome plant,
conspicuous on the sea-shore from its hoary foliage, large yolden-
yellow flowers, and long pods, which might at first sight be mistaken
for flower-stems bare of leaves. —Fl. June—August. Biennial.
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2.* G. pheniceum, with scarlet petals, black at the base and
hairy pods, only occurs occasionally as an escape.
4. Ra@méria (Violet Horned Poppy).—Annual herbs with
yellow juice. Leaves pinnatifid ; /owers violet, fugacious ; ovary
one-chambered ; fruit pod-like. (Name from J. F. Roemer, a
German botanist. )

1. A. hpbrida, with a 3-valved capsule, 2—3 in. long, occurs


CHELIDONIUM MAJUS (Comzemon Celandine).
rarely in dry cornfields in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, and is
probably not indigenous.
5. CHELIDONIUM (Celandine).—Perennial herbs with yellow
juice. Zeaves pinnate; flowers yellow; carpels 2; capsule 1-
chambered, pod-like, 2-valved. (Named from the Greek chelidon,
a swallow, because, according to Pliny, that bird discovered that
its juice was efficacious in restoring sight to its young when
blinded.)

1. C. mdjus (Greater Celandine).—The only British species ;


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Fig. 5. Celandine. Chehdonum majus).
