Sarcocapnos
(from sarx, sarkos, flesh, and Kapnos, the Greek name for Fumitory; the species have fleshy leaves). ORD. Papaveraceae. A small genus (four species) of hardy, dwarf, tufted, perennial herbs, inhabiting the Spanish Peninsula or North Africa. Flowers white, yellow, or purplish; sepals two, scale-like; petals four, erecto-connivent, one of the two outer ones spurred at base, the other flat, the inner ones narrow and cohering at apex; stamens six; racemes terminal, few-flowered. Leaves dissected; segments usually broad and rather thick. S. enneaphylla, the only species introduced, thrives in the open border or on rockwork. It may be readily increased by seeds, or by cuttings.
S. enneaphylla (nine-leaved). fl. yellow, marked with purplish above, small, in short racemes of about ten. June. l. triternately parted, on long, slender petioles; leaflets roundish-ovate, sometimes cordate at base, mucronulate at apex, the terminal one usually larger. Stems 2in. to 5in. high, slender, suffruticose at base. Southern Europe, &c., 1714.