PLATE LXXXI. 
(A) CONVOLVULUS sepium, Linn.; (B) C. sytyaticus, Waldst. 
et Kit. 
Natural Order ConvoLVULACER. 
Gen. CHar.—See description of Plate XXX. Part II. 
(A.) Spec. Cuar.—F lowers large, white or pale pink; bracts ovate or 
subtriangular, cordate at base, applied against the calyx and nearly 
parallel to, but not overlapping, one another, becoming separated as the 
capsule ripens. Peduncle 4-angled. Sepals nearly equal, ovate-lanceo- 
late. Seeds smooth, obtusely 2-angled. Leaves deeply cordate, angular 
er rounded at base. Stems long, twining. ootstock whitish, fleshy, 
brittle, creeping underground. Convolvulus sepium, Linn. Sp. Plant. p. 
218; Gren. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. ii. 500; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 250; 
Ardoino, Fl. Alp. Mar. p. 261. 
(B.) Spec. Cuar.—Differs from the preceding in its inflated, over- 
lapping, cordato-orbicular bracts which enclose the capsule. The sepals 
also are often narrower and more acuminate, and the leaves have the 
basal lobes usually approximate and rounded at the base. Convolvulus 
sylvaticus, Waldst. et Kit. Ic. Plant. Hung. iu. p. 290, tab. 261; C. syl- 
vestris, Willd. En. pl. h. Berol. p. 202; Woods, Tour. Fl. p. 249; C. 
lucanus, Ten. Fl. Nap. Prodr. App. v. p. 9, tab. 213. 
Hasirats.—(A) Richmond (Surrey, England), Sept. 27, 1867. (B) 
Turin Valley, Mentone, Jan. 3, 1867. The specimens collected by 
myself. 
Remarks.—I have not had the opportunity of examining any large 
series of fresh specimens of Convolvulus sylvaticus, as its time of flowering 
is almost over before the winter season sets in; but I suspect that any 
one who had the means at his disposal would find that the characters 
assigned to this plant are inconstant, and that it should be placed asa 
variety of C. sepium. This latter plant is well represented in the herba- 
rium at Kew, but I could not satisfy myself that the varieties link sepium 
on to sylvaticus. One plant from Lexington, Kentucky, collected by Dr. 
Short, and named C. sepium, appeared to me to approach more nearly to 
C. sylvaticus: but I rather distrust this conclusion, drawn from dried 
specimens, and the more so as Professor Asa Gray* states that C. sepium 
is common and variable in the States, but makes no allusion to C. syl- 
* ‘Man. Bot. of Northern U.S.,’ p. 376. 
