. 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. 5. GLAUCIUM lilill. Card. Diet. Abr. Ed. 4. 1754. Glaucous annual or biennial herbs, with alternate lobed or dissected leaves, large yellow flowers, and saffron-colored sap. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Starnens =0. Placentae 2, rarely 3; stigma sessile, dilated, 2-lobed, the lobes convex. Capsule long-linear, 2-celled, dehiscent to the base. Seeds cancellate, crestless. [Name
. 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. 5. GLAUCIUM lilill. Card. Diet. Abr. Ed. 4. 1754. Glaucous annual or biennial herbs, with alternate lobed or dissected leaves, large yellow flowers, and saffron-colored sap. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Starnens =0. Placentae 2, rarely 3; stigma sessile, dilated, 2-lobed, the lobes convex. Capsule long-linear, 2-celled, dehiscent to the base. Seeds cancellate, crestless. [Name Greek, from the glaucous foliage.] About 6 species, of the Old World, mainly of the Mediterranean region, the following typical. I. GlauciumGlaucium (L.) Karst. Yellow Horned or Sea Poppy. Fig. 1983. Chelidonium Glaucium L. Sp. PI. 506. 1733. Claucium fiavum Crantz, Stirp. Aust. 2: 131. 1763. Glaucium htlcum Scop. Fl. Cam. Ed. 2, i: 369. 1772. Glaucium Glaucium Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 649. 1880-83. Stout, 2°-3° high, rigid, branching. Leaves thick, ovate or oblong, 3'-8' long, l'-2' wide, scurfy, the basal and low- est cauline petiolcd, the upper sessile, clasping, pinnatifid, the divisions toothed, or the upper merely lobed; flowers axillary and terminal, l'-2' broad; sepals scurfy; capsule narrowly-linear, 6'-^i2' long, tipped with the persistent stigma In waste places. Rhode Island, southward near the coast to Virginia, and in central New York. Widely diffused as a weed in maritime regions of the Old World. Adventive from Europe. Summer. Bruisewort. Squatmore. 6. CHELIDONIUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PL 505. 1753. An erect biennial, brittle, branching herb, with alternate deeply pinnatifid leaves, yellow sap and yellow flowers in umbels. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stamens ^. Placentae 2. Style short, distinct; stigma not dilated, 2-lobed. Capsule linear, upwardly dehiscent from the base. Seeds smooth, shining, crested. [Xame Greek for the swal- low, which appears at about its flowering time.]
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