vaticus. Choisy, in De Candolle’s Prodromus,* however, states that C. 
sylvaticus is found in North America. This species is commonly culti- 
vated near London. 
The range of C. sepium may indeed be said to be world-wide, and this 
plant is cited by M. Alphonse De Candolle as an example of the rule that 
those species which inhabit road-sides and waste places are found dis- 
persed over large geographical areas. M. Alphonse De Candolle givest 
the following distribution for C. sepium: Europe, as far as Sweden; in 
Kasan; the Caucasus, Southern Siberia; Australia, New Zealand, Chonos 
Archipelago, Chili, California, Oregon, Newfoundland, Azores, Algiers. 
C. sylvaticus grows at Constantinople (Choisy), in the Banat, Italy and 
Sicily, Dalmatia, Macedon and Thrace, and it is common along the 
Riviera from Genoa to Mentone, mixed with sepium, and I have seen a 
specimen in M. Thuret’s herbarium, which he collected near Golfe Jouan, 
between Antibes and Cannes. 
The specimens in Linnzus, herbarium, which are remarkably fine and 
well-preserved, under which Linneus has written ‘ Convolvulus sepium, 
2, Alger,” appear to me to be, without doubt, characteristic examples of 
C. sylvaticus. There is no question, however, but that Linnezus described 
the form common in Northern Europe; and, indeed, he gives no extra- 
European habitats for C. sepium even in the second edition of the Species 
Plantarum. 
EXPLANATION OF PLate LXXXI.—Fig. A 1, the bracts and peduncle ~ 
of the natural size. A 2,a bract of the natural size. A 3, a stamen, 
magnified. A 4, the ripe capsule, enclosed in calyx and bracts, of thenatural 
size. A 5, the same, deprived of calyx and bracts. A 6, a seed of the 
natural size. Fig. B 1, bract of the natural size. B 2, a division of 
the calyx, of the natural size. 
* eV ol xp. 43a, + Geog. Bot. i. p. 573. 
