Glaucous annual or biennial herbs, with alternate lobed or dissected leaves, large yellow-flowers, and saffron-colored sap. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stamens 00. 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.

1. Glaucium Glaùcium (L.) Karst. Yellow Horned Or Sea Poppy

Fig. 1983

Chelidonium Glaucium L. Sp. Pl. 506. 1753. Glaucium flavum Crantz, Stirp. Aust. 2: 131. 1763. Glaucium luteum Scop. Fl. Cam. Ed. 2, 1: 369. 1772. Glaucium Glaucium Karst. Deutsch. Fl..649. 1880-83.

Stout, 2°-3° high, rigid, branching. Leaves thick, ovate or oblong, 3'-8' long, 1'-2' wide, scurfy, the basal and lowest cauline petioled, the upper sessile, clasping, pinnatifid, the divisions toothed, or the upper merely lobed; flowers axillary and terminal, 1'-2' broad; sepals scurfy; capsule narrowly-linear, 6'-12' 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.