110 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



3. Cus'cula. L, ttjlt'ss parasitic slentbr fin'tn'm, with yellowish or mldish 

 stems, attaching themselves to the bark of other plants. Flowers small, 

 mostly white, clustered. Corolla bell-shaped. Stamens with a ./V 

 appendage at their base. 



1. CALYSTE'GIA, R. Br. BBACTED BINDWEED. 



1. C. se'pium, R. Br. (Convolvulus sepium, L., in Macoun's 

 Catalogue.) (HEDGE BINDWEED.) Stem mostly tunning. Leaves 

 halberd-shaped. Peduncles 4-angled. Corolla commonly rose- 

 coloured. Moist banks. 



2. C. spithamae'a, Pursh. (Convolvulus spithamceus, L., in 

 Macoun's Catalogue. ) Stem low and simple, upright or ascending, 

 not twining, 6-12 inches high. Leaves oblong, more or less heart- 

 shaped at the base. Corolla white. Dry soil. 



2. CONVOI/VUL.TJS, L. BINDWEED. 



C. arvensis, L. (BINDWEED.) Stem twining or procumbent, 

 and low. Leaves ovate-oblong, sagittate, the lobes acute. Corolla 

 white, or tinged with red. 



3. CUS'CUTA, Tourn. DODDER. 



C. Grono'vii, Willd. Stems resembling coarse threads, 

 spreading themselves over herbs and low bushes. Low and moist 

 shady places. 



ORDER LXY. SOLANA'CEJE. (NIGHTSHADE FAMILY.) 



Rank-scented herbs (or one species shrubby), with colourless 

 bitter juice, alternate leaves, and regular pentamerous and pen- 

 tandrous flowers, but a 2-ceUed ovary, with the placentae in the. r/./v'x. 

 Fruit a many-seeded berry or pod. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 



1. Sola'num. Corolla wheel-shaped, 5 lobed, the margins turned inward in 



the bud. Anthers conniving around the style, the cells opening l>y 

 pores at the apex ; filaments very sh'irt. The larger leaves often witli 

 an accompanying 1 smaller one. Fruit a berry. 



2. Pliys'alis. Calyx 5-clcft, cnlanjinjf after flowering, becoming at l>'ii<jtk 



much inflated, and enclnxiiiif tltf. hrrrir. Corolla Ix-twi-i-n wheel-shaped 

 and funnel-form. Anther$ Separate, o])ening Icnirtlnvisc. Plant clammy- 

 pubescent. 



