MOENING-GLORY FAMILY 117 



white or piu-plisli; ovary densely hairy; peduncles abruptly recurved in fruit, so 

 that the pods are turned down to or into the soil. 



Ravines and edges of thickets on open hills, 50 to 1500 feet : widely distributed 

 tropical and subtropical plant, naturalized in central California at scattered locali- 

 ties, especially near the coast. June. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada foothills: Eldorado Co. (betw. Salmon Falls and Pilot Hill and also 

 in New York Ravine), K. Brandegee. Coastal: Trinidad, Tracy 9785; Trinity River Valley at 

 South Pork, Tracy 7764; Mt. Tamalpais (Zoe 2:366) ; Presidio, San Francisco (Man. Reg. S. P. 

 Bay 266) ; Mission Hills, San Francisco (Zoe 2:367) ; Monterey (Zoe 2:366). 



Var. occidentalis (House) Jepson comb. n. Leaf -blades wholly glabrous or with scattered 

 hairs, especially beneath, 1 to 2 inches wide, the five to seven veins often conspicuous. — Mesa head- 

 lands of coastal Southern California where it is possibly native. Also in northern Lower Califor- 

 nia. April-May. 



Locs.- — Avalon, Santa Catalina Isl. (Zoe 1:114) ; Santa Rosa Isl. (Zoe 1:142) ; Mt. Soledad, 

 Newlon 327; La Jolla, Jepson 11,854; San Diego, Geo. B. Grant 1842. 



Refs. — DiCHONDBA REPENS Forst., Char. Gen. 40, t. 20 (1776), type loc. "ad insulas maris 

 australis"; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 386 (1901), ed. 2, 325 (1911), Man. 775 (1925). Var. occi- 

 dentalis Jepson. D. occidentalis House, Muhl. 1:130 (1900), type loc. San Diego, Orcutt. 



2. CONVOLVULUS L. Bindweed. Moening-glory 



Twining or prostrate herbs, ours perennial except one. Corolla funnel form to 

 campanulate. Style entire, or cleft at the apex only. Stigmas ovate to linear. 

 Capsule globose with 4 seeds in 2 cells (or by abortion 1-celled), mostly 2 to 

 4-valved. — In Convolvulus macrostegius and C. purpuratus the stems are woody 

 below, in our other species, hei'baceous. — Species about 200, temperate and tropical 

 regions, all continents. (Latin convolvo, to entwine.) 



Flowers showy ( % or) 1 to 2% inches long; leaf-blades sagittate (or reniform in no. 1) ; perennial. 

 Calyx subtended by a pair of bracts ; bracts large, calycoid, ovate to orbicular, embracing and 

 commonly enclosing the calyx. 

 Flowers pink, purple or lavender, 1% to 2% inches long. 



Leaf -blades broadly reniform, % to 2 inches wide ; slightly succulent seaside herbs.... 



1. C. soldanella. 

 Leaf -blades long, triangular-sagittate, 2% to 3% inches long; minutely puberulent 



climber with thinnish leaves; swamps or river-bottoms 2. C. sepium. 



Flowers white or cream color (sometimes pinkish outside; sometimes pinkish in no. 5). 

 Leaf -blades usually triangular-hastate to ovate-lanceolate; herbage glabrous or 

 nearly so. 

 Leaf -blades little longer than wide or as wide as long, broadly triangular ; co- 

 rolla 1% to 2 inches long; coastal islands 3. C. macrostegius. 



Leaf -blades distinctly longer than wide, almost lanceolate-sagittate ; corolla % 



to 114 inches long ; along the S. Cal. coast 4. C. occidentalis. 



Leaf -blades ovoid-deltoid, sagittate to almost truncate at base. 



Herbage glabrous; corolla IV^ inches long; low herbaceous plant; n. Cal 



5. C. atriplicifolius. 

 Herbage more or less pubescent. 



Leaves subglabrous or slightly hairy; corolla 1% to 2 inches long; low 

 tufted plants, the leaves and peduncles basal ; cent. Coast Ranges. 



6. C. sJibacaulis. 

 Leaves almost felty, covered with a dense villous to almost tomentose pu- 

 bescence; corolla small, 1 to 1% inches long. 

 Low trailing plant ; leaf -blades triangular-deltoid, thick, % to 1 inch 

 long; bracts whitish-tomentose; Coast Ranges and Sierra Ne- 

 vada foothills 7. C. malacophyllus. 



Rather wiry climbing plant ; leaf -blades orbicular-deltoid, thinnish, 

 1 to 2 inches long; bracts tawny; Sierra Nevada at middle 



altitudes 8. C. chartaceus. 



Calyx with subulate or reduced bracts more or less distant. 



Bracts sagittate (like the leaves), inserted about % to % inch below the calyx; corolla 

 white, 1 to 1% inches long; slender erect plants, slightly pubescent throughout. 



9. C. fuleratus. 

 Bracts narrowly ovate to lanceolate (without basal lobes as in the leaves). 



