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2. C sylvatica, W. K. 2]! Auricles of leaves usually entire, 

 sometimes angled, or coarse-dentate. Peduncles long, 1-flowered; 

 bracts broad, hood-like, ovate, obtuse; sepals ovate, obtuse, mucronate ; 

 corolla .07 to .08 long, white — Spring — Hedges; coast and Lebanon. 

 DoutfuUy separated from last. 



* * Herls trailing in maritime sands, icitJi reniform, or round cordate 



leaves. 



3, C §oIdanella, L. 1|! Leaves fleshy, entire or some\xhat 

 repand, .015 to .03 broad. Peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, longer than 

 .leaves; bracts ovate, obtuse; sepals ovate, obtuse or retuse, mucron- 



ulate; corolla .04 to .05 long, purple — Spring — Phoenician coast 

 (Barbey). 



3. COMVOL.VUI.US, L. Bindweed. Convolvulus. 



Calyx 5-sepaled. Corolla funnel-shaped with spreading limb, 

 angled-S-lobed or repand-5-plaited. Style 1, with two, linear-cylin- 

 drical, often revolute stigmas. Ovary and capsule 2 celled, cells 2- 

 ovuled, 2-valved — Herbs or shrubs, with pedicels often bracteolate, 

 but bracteoles not forming an involucre. 



* Perennials. ' 



t SJirubby plants icitli spinescent or persistent twigs. Ovary gla'brous. 



1 C. hystrix, 2 lanatus, 3 Dorycnium. 



1 1 Unarmed, more or less slirulhy plants. Ovary hirsute. 



4 C. holosericeus, 5 Cantabrica, 6 Aucheri, 7 lineatus, 8 Li- 

 banoticus. 



1 1 1 Unarmed, tufted, stemless, mountain jjlants. Ovary hirsute. 



9 C. cochlearis. 



1 1 1 1 Unarmed, woolly, at length rusty, thicJc-stemmed. Ovary glabrous. 



10 C. secundus, 11 reticulatus, 12 Schimperi. 



1 1 1 1 1 Branches slender, herbaceous, not climbing. Ovary glabrous. 

 13 C. glomeratus, 14 pilosellsefolius. 



1 1 1 1 1 1 Branches slender, herbaceous, climbing. 

 I Ovary hirsute. 

 15 C. G-alaticus, 16 hirsutus, 17 stenophyllus. 



J I Ovary glabrous. 

 18 C. althseoides, 19 tenuissimus, 20 stachydifolius, 21 Palaes- 

 tinus, 22 Scammonia, 23 arvensis. 



* * Annuals. Gapsules glabrous. Peduncles \-flowered. 

 24 C. Coelesyriacus, 25 Siculus, 36 pentapetaloides. 



