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Eomecon (From eoos Eastern and Mekon) (II)

(from eoos, Eastern, and Mekon, a Poppy; so called on account of its systematic position close to the Poppies, and its native country in Eastern Asia). ORD. Papaveraceae. A monotypic genus. The species is a beautiful, hardy, perennial herb, intermediate between Stylophorum and Sanguinaria, differing from both in the scapose habit, racemose flowers, and sepals confluent in a boat-shaped spathe; and further from Stylophorum in the colour of the flowers and form of the leaves, and from Sanguinaria in the four petals, elongated style, and stigmatic lobes alternating with the placentas. It thrives in any fairly good soil, and may be increased by divisions. E. chionantha (snowy-flowered). fl. white, with yellow stamens, Poppy-like, 1 1/2in. to 2in. in expanse; pedicels slender; flowerstem loosely branched. Summer and autumn. l. all radical, long-stalked, with a roundish-cordate, sinuate or coarsely crenate blade, 3in. to 4in. long and nearly as broad. China, 1885. (B. M. 6871.)