CONVOLVULAOEX. (CONVOLVULUS FAMILY.) 341* 
8. PHARBITIS. Capsule 3-celled, the cells 2-seeded. Corolla bell-shaped. 
4. IPOM(EA. Capsule 2-celled, the cells 2-seeded. Corolla bell- or funnel-shaped. Stamens 
mostly included. 
* * Style single. Stigmas ovate or cylindrical, 
5. JACQUEMONTIA. Capsule 2-celled, 4-seeded. Stigmas ovate, flattened. 
6. CALYSTEGIA. Capsule imperfectly 2-celled, 4-seeded. Stigmas cylindrical. Calyx in- 
cluded in the membranaceous bracts. 
* * * Styles 2, separate or partly united. Ovary 2-celled. 
7, EVOLVULUS. Styles separate, 2-parted or 2-cleft. 
8. STYLISMA. Styles separate or partly united, entire. 
Tre I. DICHONDREZE.- Ovary double. Embryo with cotyledons. Capsule 
utricular, 1-seeded. — Stems creeping. 
.9. DICHONDRA. Corolla bell-shaped. Stigmas thick. Peduncle 1-flowered. 
Tre IILL CUSCUTE. — Ovary single. Embryo destitute of cotyledons. Capsule 
closed. 
10. CUSCUTA. Twining parasites, with scale-like leaves. Styles 2. 
1, QUAMOCLIT, Tourn. Cypress-Vine. 
Sepals 5. Corolla salver-form, 5-plaited, with the tube elongated. Stamens 
inserted at the base of the tube, dilated at the base, exserted. Ovary 4-celled. 
Style single: stigma globular, 2-lobed. Capsule 4-valved, 4-seeded. — Twining 
annual herbs, with cordate entire or pinnatifid leaves, and red flowers, on axil- 
lary peduncles. a - org 
1. Q. coccinea, Meench. Leaves petioled, cordate, acuminate, angled at 
the base; peduncles as long as the petioles, 3—5-flowered ; sepals awned; co- 
rolla slightly lobed, scarlet. (Ipomcea coccinea, Z..) — Cultivated ground, in the 
middle and upper districts, and northward. July and Aug.— Corolla 1' long, 
sometimes yellowish. 
2. Q. vulgaris, Chois. Leaves pinnatifid, with long and linear segments ; 
peduncles 1 -3-flowered, the pedicels much thickened upward ; sepals ovate or 
oblong, awnless. — Spontaneous near gardens. July- Oct. 
2. BATATAS, Chois. anr 
Sepals 5. Corolla bell-shaped, the limb 5-plaited, spreading. Stamens sligh rhtly 
dilated at the base, included. Ovary 4-celled. Style simple: stigma globular, 
?-lobed. Capsule 4-celled, 4-seeded. — Trailing or twining herbs, with enti itire 
or lobed leaves. Peduncles axillary, 1-several-flowered. bent ae 
1. B. littoralis, Chois. Smooth and fleshy; stem prostrate, creeping ; 
leaves oval or oblong, cordate, notched at the apex, entire or hastate-lobed, the _ 
lateral lobes entire or 2-cleft ; peduncles as long as the petioles, 1-flowered ; - 
bracts subulate ; sepals oblong, mucronate; corolla obscurely lobed, white, the 
tube yellowish. (Convolvulus obtusilobus, Michz.) — Drifting sands along the - 
coast, Florida to South Carolina. May -Sept. Y — Leaves 1/-2! long. Co- 
p © EDULIS, Chois, includes the different kinds of the cult 
