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3. QUAMOCLIT Moench. 
Annual or perennial twining vines, glabrous throughout, with entire or lobed leaves 
and axillary few-flowered cymes of bright scarlet flowers on peduncles exceeding the 
leaves; sepals mostly equal; corolla about 25 mm. long, narrowly funnelform to salver- 
form, the limb short and spreading, not lobed, more or less pentagonal, expanding in 
daylight; stamens exserted; ovary 2-celled or falsely 4-celled; capsules subglobose, 
7 to 8 mm. in diameter; seeds 4. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Leaves entire or nearly so. ..............--- 2020-0 eee 1. Q. coccinea. 
Leaves deeply 3-lobed, the lateral lobes usually again lobed........ 2. Q. hederifolia. 
1. Quamoclit coccinea (L.) Moench, Meth. Pl. 453. 1794. 
Ipomoea coccinea L. Sp. Pl. 160. 1753. 
Type Locauity: “‘Habitat in Domingo.” 
RanGE: Tropical regions of America, frequently escaped in the United States. 
New Mexico: Santa Fe; Pecos; Animas Creek; Fort Bayard. 
2. Quamoclit hederifolia (L.) Choisy in DC. Prodr. 9: 336. 1845. 
Ipomoea hederifolia L. Syst. Veg. ed. 10. 2: 925. 1759. 
Type Loca.ity: Not stated. 
Ranae: Western Texas to southern Arizona and southward. 
New Mexico: Las Vegas; Fort Bayard; Kingston; Organ Mountains; Gray; White 
Mountains. Moist ground, in the Upper Sonoran and Transition zones. 
4. IPOMOEA L. MorninG-GLory. 
Annual or perennial herbs with twining or erect stems; leaves entire or lobed; 
flowers axillary, solitary or in few-flowered cymes; sepals membranous or rather fleshy, 
sometimes becoming leathery, closely imbricated, not elongated, persistent; corolla 
white, pink, blue, or purple, funnelform, the limb usually spreading and relatively 
ample, pentagonal or circular; stamens included; ovary 2 to 4-celled; capsules 2 to 
4-valved; seeds often pubescent. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Stems erect, stout, much branched, forming dense clumps; leaves 
Limaar... 2. eee eee eee eee eee eee e cece ee eeeeees 1. I. leptophylla. 
Stems twining or decumbent, slender; leaves not linear. 
Sepals with green foliaceous tips, acute or attenuate, hirsute. 
Leaves entire or nearly 80.............2-eeeeeeeee eee eee 6. I. purpurea. 
Leaves 3-lobed or 3-parted. 
Tips of the sepals merely acute................-..-.-. 7. J. hirsutula. 
Tips of the sepals with long attenuate tips. 
Corolla 3 cm. long or less; sepals scarcely dilated 
at the base, the tips spreading............. 8. I. desertorum. 
Corolla 8 cm. long; sepals much dilated at the 
base, the tips erect.......-...:.......-.-- 9. I. lindheimeri. 
Sepals scarious, at least on the margins, not with foliaceous tips, 
rounded to acuminate at the apex, glabrous or nearly so. 
Leaves cordate-ovate, not cleft...............---..+2----. 5. I. cardiophylla. 
Leaves 5 to 7-cleft. 
Corolla more than 5 cm. long........-.....-eeeeeeeee 2. L. tenuiloba. 
Corolla less than 3 cm. long. 
Sepals muricate; perennial from a tuberous root.. 3. I. muricata. 
Sepals smooth; annual....................202005 4. I. costellata. 
