S50 FENTANDRIA M0N06Y]^iA»^ 



CONVOLVULUS. 



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Corolla campanulata, | Corolla campanulate, 

 plicata. Stigmata 2. \ plicate. Stigmas 2. Cap- 

 Capsula g-locularis ; \o- sule 2 celled j cells 2 

 culis dlspermis. | seeded. 



* Caule prostrate vel * Stem prostrate or 

 non volubili. | not twining. 



4, Tenellus. 



C. foliis ellipticis, mu- [ Leaves elliptic, mucro- 

 cronatis, basis ubcordalis; [ nate/ somewhat cordate 

 pedunculis multifloris, fo- I at base; peduncles many 

 liis longioribus ; stylo bi- flowered, longer than the 

 partito. Sp. pi. i . p. 86 1. leaves f style 2 parted. 



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C. humistratus, Walt p. 94. 



C. trichosanthes, Mich. t. p. 137. Parsh, 1. p. 143. 



Jloot perennial. Stem prostrate, branching at base, hairy. J-'<*fl^'<* 

 entire, somewhat hairy, on very short footstalks. Peduncles axillarjf 

 twic^ as long as the leaves. Flowers (generally 3 — 5) fasciculated at 

 the summit. Bracteas 2 at the summit of the common peduncle. 

 Calyx 5 leaved, leaves oval, acuminate, ciliate, persistent. toroiO' 

 campanulate, small, white, externally hairy, with the margin obscure - 

 ly 10 toothed. - Filaments 5^ (sometimes 6?) villous, equal, inserted 

 into the tube of the corolla. Anthers sagittate, erect. Gem »u[^ 

 rior, ovate, villous at the summit, surrounded at base bj a ^l^i"""' 

 orange coloured ring. Style longer than the stamens, deeply 2cie 

 Stigmas % globose. Capsule hairy, 4 celled, each cell one seeded. 



Grows in, dry sandy soils. Very common. 



Flowers June — September. 



Of this species, which is so distinct by its stvie cleft frequency to 

 the very base, the late Br. Brickell of Savannah, proj>osed to cons^^ 

 tute a new genus. Mr. Le Conte more correctly considers it a^ - 

 onl^' real Convolvulus we possess ; yet its stigmas are globose, 

 by its capsule it approaches ye^r^ near to the genus Evolvulus. 



2. .Aquattcus. Walt. ^^ 



C. tomentosus ; foliis I Tamentose ; leaj^^;; 

 oblongO'Ovatis, siibsessili- j oblong ovate, nearly ? 



bus; pedunculis subtii^ } slle 5 peduncles genei - 



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