found to remain comprised in the synonymy of Nil', the 



present, and the one figured in the 188th plate of Curtis'* 

 Botanical Magazine by that name. And if we were to de- 

 termine hederuceus and Nil by the synonyms adduced by 

 Linnaeus, we should be of opinion that they included four 

 species between them: 1. The asiatic plant; (Curt. hot. 

 Mao: t. 188. Bill. elth. 96. t. SO, Jig. 91.) 2. That from 

 the Coast of Guinea; (Dill. elth. 97. t. SI. Jig. 93.) 3. The 

 South American plant figured in the Flora Peruviana of 

 liuiz and Pa von, t. 119. f. a. by the title of IpoMCEa cus- 

 pdala ; (Dill. elth. 99- t. 83. Jig. 96.) 4. The one before 

 us from North America; (Dill. elth. 96. t. 8. fig. 92.) 



Mr. Brown, in his Prodromus of the Flora of New Hol- 

 land, according to his view of C. Nil and hederaccus of 

 Linnscus, has reduced them to one species, which he has 

 transferred to Ipomoea by the name of hederacea. But Jac- 

 quin had already enrolled our plant in that genus by the 

 same appellation, which we have maintained for it in right of 

 priority ; and the rather as Nil is thus vacant for the other. 



In our plant the lateral lobes of the leaves converge to- 

 wards a broader ventricosely ovate centre one, from which 

 they are separated by deep contracted sinuses, rounded at 

 the bottom. In the other the lateral lobes are shorter, and 

 diverge from the one in the centre, which is lanceolately 

 ovate, and separated by shallow divaricate sinuses, some- 

 times obliterated. The tube of the calyx in the present is 

 clothed with a thick hirsute tawny pubescence; the seg- 

 ments are long, subulate, and revolutely patent, in the 

 other straight and connivent. The limb of the corolla is 



here rounded, there cornered. 



It is seen in perfection only in the very early par 

 day, and is called " the Morning Glory," in A 



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t of the 



America. 



The seed should be sown in the spring, with that of other 

 annuals, and the plants treated like those of the twining: 



kinds. The species is seldom seen in our gardens, altho' 

 known in them from the days of Parkinson. 



Native of Virginia and Carolina; growing near gardens 

 ami in hedges on river-sides. 



The drawing was made from a plant raised in the nursery 

 of Messrs. Whitley, Milne, and Brame, in the King's Road, 

 Parson's Green, from seeds received from Paris. 



A section of the corolla, b The pistil, e Seed-vessel and calyx. 



