. 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. Botany. 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
. 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. Botany. 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. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original
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