No. 14.] FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS. 325 



Convolvulus sepium L. (of hedges). 



Convolvulus sepium L., var. americanus Sims. 

 Wild Morning Glory. Hedge Bindweed. 



Frequent. Sandy fields^, roadsides and waste places. June 

 — Aug. 



The root is medicinal. 

 Convolvulus sepium L., var. pubescens (Gray) Fernald 



(downy). 

 Convolvulus sepium L., var. repens Gray. 

 Convolvulus repens L. 



Open fields or stony and gravelly places on and near the 

 coast. Frequent eastward, becoming occasional westward. 

 June — Aug. 



The root is medicinal. 



Convolvulus arvensis L. (of cultivated ground). 

 Field Bindweed. 



Rare. Waste ground and roadsides: New London 

 (Graves), Hartford (H. S. Clark, Bissell), New Haven 

 (Miss A. E. Carpenter), Southington (Andrews), Ansonia 

 (Harger), Orange and Bridgeport (Fames), Westport 

 (Fames & C. C. Godfrey), July. Adventive from Europe. 



CUSCUTA L. Dodder. Love Vine. 



Cuscuta Epithymum Murr. (upon thyme). 

 Clover Dodder. 



Rare. Clover fields: Mansfield (Mrs. C. S. Phelps), 

 East Windsor and Granby (Bissell), Southington (Andrews), 

 Oxford (Harger), Litchfield (Miss E. H. Thompson), East 

 Lyme (Miss A. M. Ryon), Fairfield (Fames). July — Sept. 

 Adventive from Europe. 



Cuscuta arvensis Beyrich (of cultivated ground). 

 Field Dodder. 



Rare. In fields: Granby (Bissell), Oxford and South- 

 bury (Harger). July — Sept. 



Cuscuta Coryli Engelm. (of hazel). 

 Cuscuta inflexa Engelm. 

 Hazel Dodder. 



Rare. On shrubs: Norwich (Mrs. E. E. Rogers). Aug. 



