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Convolvulus candicans. Tenassee 

 Bindweed. 



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Clafs and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. campanula*, plicata. Stigmata 2. Cap/. 2-Iocularis : 

 loculis difpermis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



CONVOLVULUS candicans s (volubilis, glaber) foliis cordatis, 

 acummatis mtegerrimis, pedunculis multifloris ebra&eatis, 

 foliolis calycinis extcrioribus nervofis obtufis. 



CONVOLVULUS candicans; foliis cordatis intcgerrimis pan- 

 durasformibufve fubtus fubpilofis, pedunculis glabris mul- 

 tifloris, calycibus laevibus : foliolis exteuoribus obtufis 

 So/and. MJJ. Banks Herb. 



CONVOLVULUS flore maximo albo, tubo intus purpureo, 

 folus panduraeformibus et nonnullis cordatis. Clayton 

 n. 641. ? 



CONVOLVULUS foliis inferioribus cordatis fuperioribus tri- 

 lobis, calycibus pedunculis petiolifque glabris, caule cami- 

 lefcente. Gronov. Fl. Virg. 1. 141 — 2. p. 28.? 



CONVOLVULUS panduratus. Michaux Fl. Bor.-Amer 1 

 p. 138. ? 



Several fpecies of this genus are fo prone to vary in the 

 form of their leaves, degree of pubefcence, and even in the 

 number of flowers upon the fame peduncle, that no great ftrefs 

 can be laid upon any of thefe chafers feparately, yet perhaps 

 there are often no better to be found, to eitablifh a fpecific 

 uiitinction upon. 



This variablenefs of charaBer often renders it extremely dif- 

 ficult to afcertain the fynonymy, and leaves us in doubt whether 



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