. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . STYLOPHORUM Nutt. Gen. 2 : 1818. y^i3 Herbs, with stout rootstocks, yellow sap, pinnatifid leaves and clustered or solitary flow- ers, the buds nodding. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stamens ^. Placentae 2-4; style distinct; stigma 2-4-lobed, radiate. Capsule linear or ovoid, bristly, dehiscent to the base by 2-4 valves. Seeds cancellate, crested. [Name Greek, style-bearing.] A genus
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . STYLOPHORUM Nutt. Gen. 2 : 1818. y^i3 Herbs, with stout rootstocks, yellow sap, pinnatifid leaves and clustered or solitary flow- ers, the buds nodding. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stamens ^. Placentae 2-4; style distinct; stigma 2-4-lobed, radiate. Capsule linear or ovoid, bristly, dehiscent to the base by 2-4 valves. Seeds cancellate, crested. [Name Greek, style-bearing.] A genus of about 4 species, natives of eastern North America, the Himalayas, Japan and Manchuria, the fol- lowing typical. I. Stylophorum diphyllum (Michx.) Nutt. Yellow or Celandine Poppy. Fig. 1982. Chclidonium diphylhim Fl. Bor. Am. I : 309. 1803. Styhphorium diphyllum Nutt. Gen. 2: 7. 1818. Meconopsis diphylla DC. Syst. Veg. 2; 88. 1821. Glaucous, especially the lower surfaces of the leaves, sparingly pubescent, 12-18' high. Leaves basal and cauline, 4-10' long, slender-petioled, 1-2-pinnatifid, the divisions obovate, obtuse, lobed or irregularly crenate, those of the stem 2-4, the upper opposite; flowers 2-4, terminal, about i' broad, deep yellow; sepals hirsute, caducous; petals obovate, rounded; capsule i' long, ovoid, acute at each end, tipped with the persistent style. In low woods, -western Pennsylvania and Ohio to Ten- nessee, west to Wisconsin and Missouri. March-May. Macleya cordata (Willd.) R. Br. (Bocconia cordata Uilld.). the PKime-poppy. a tall glaucous perennial, with palmately lobed leaves and large panicles of small greenish- white apetalous flowers, native of eastern Asia, is much planted for ornament, and is spontaneous after cultivation
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