34. POLEMONIACEtE. 35. CONVOLVULACE.E. 109 



1. G 



Hooker 

 annual, 

 stickv 



Family 34.— 

 POLEMONIACE/E. 



1. GiLiA, Cavanilles. 



(After F. S. Gil, a Spanish 

 hotanist.) 

 ilia, squarrosa, 



and Arnott. Branching 

 covered with glandular- 

 hairs ; leaves pinnatisect 

 with incised, pungent-pointed 

 segments, upper leaves simpler ; 

 flowers small, pale-bhie, in clense 

 head.s surrounded by leafy bracts ; 

 calyx divided almost to base into 

 5 awlshaped segments, longer 

 than the corolla, which 

 funnel-shaped tube and 

 ing limb of .5 oval lobes. 

 Established in New 

 Wales and Victoria, and 

 peared in the South-East. — Oct.- 

 Dec. — California, Oregon. 



Family 3o. CONVO 



1. 



has a 

 spread- 

 South 

 has ap- 



a 



Gilia squarrosc 

 LVULACE/E. 



CUSCUTA, L. 



Parasitic, twining, annual herbs, without leaves, and 

 clinging to other plants by suckers on stem ; calyx and 



c(u-olla 4-5-lobed ; corolla-tube 

 broad, with 4-5 small scales in- 

 side : stamens 4-5 ; capsule globu- 

 lar, 2-celled, 4-seeded. 



Scales large, clos- 

 ing the corolla 

 tube 



Scales small, not 

 closing- the tube 



C. Epit/iyiiiKin 1 

 C. europoca 2 



Cuscuta Epithymum, 



1. Cuscuta Epithytnum, 



L. Lesser Dodder. Flowers 

 small, sessile, in globular chis- 

 ters ; calyx with acuminate 

 lobes ; corolla with acute lobes as 

 long as its tube, which is closed 

 inside by the connivent, fringed 

 ^scales; styles 2, longer than the 

 ovary. 



Living on lucerne and other 

 plants. — Oct. -Dec. — Europe; 

 Asia. 



