No. 26. CONVOX.WI.US. 



No. 26^ 



CONVOLVULUS PANDURATUS 



English Name— MECHAMECK BINDWEED, 

 Frejn-ch Name — Liseron imechamec. 

 German Name — Geigenblattrige winde. 

 Opficinal Names — Convol\r. pandurati sen Pseu- 

 do-mechoacana, radix. 



Vulgar Names— Wild Potatoe, Wild Rhubarb, 

 Mechameck, Wild Jalap, Man in the ground, Meco- 

 acan, Potatoe Vine, Kussander, Kassader, &c. 



Authorities — Linn^us, Schoepf, Coxe, Disp. 

 Bigelow Secj. B. Barton, Nuttal, W. Bart. V. M 

 M. fig. £3. ^ 



Genus Convolvulus — Calix five parted, segments 



unequal imbricated. Corolla bell or funnel shapetij 

 iimbus equal, nearly entire, with five folds and teeUu 

 Five unequal stamina on tlie corolla. One pistilsur* 

 rounded by a glandular disk, one style, stigma bifid 

 orbilobe. Capsule bilocularj few seeded. 



Species C. Panduratus — Root tuberose ; stcui 

 twining; leaves cordate, acute, entire or pandurate ; 



peduncles multiflore, calix mutic, corolla funnel- 



;haped, 



DESCRIPTION— Root perennial, very large, cy- 

 Ihidric or fusiform, from two to four feet lon^, txs 



thick as the arm, yellowish outside, whitish and mli- 

 Jjy inside, wulh many fissurr*?. oflen branched below 



