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five-lobed margin, solitary on slender axillary stalks; the calyx inclosed by 

 two large, ovate, pointed bracts; stamens five, attached to the base of the 

 corolla tube within. Fruit a globular, thin-walled capsule, about one-third 

 of an inch in diameter, containing four black, angled seeds. 



Roadsides, fields and thickets, usually in moist soil, Newfoundland to 

 British Columbia, south to Georgia and New Mexico. Often a troublesome 

 weed. Flowering from June to August. The pink and white flowered 

 form is thought by some to be the native form of this species, which is in 

 part introduced and naturalized from Europe. 



The Small Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis Linnaeus) is 

 smaller in every way, trailing on the ground, the leaves I to 2 inches long, 

 sagittate or hastate at the base; flowers pink or nearly white, about i \ inches 

 long. Native of Europe and common as a weed in fields and waste places. 



The Trailing or Hedge Bindweed (Convolvulus repens Lin- 

 naeus) resembles the Great Bindweed, but is more softly hairy or tomentose. 

 Leaves ovate or oblong, cordate or sagittate at the base. Flowers pink or 

 white, about 2 inches long. It is common in moist thickets and marshes 

 along the coast. 



Dodder Family 



Cuscutaceae 

 Gronovius's Dodder; Love Vine 



Cuscuta gronovii Willdenow 



Plate I7ob 



A slender, herbaceous annual with yellowish or orange-colored stems, 

 climbing over and around various shrubs and herbs. Flowers numerous, 

 short-stalked in dense clusters. Calyx five-lobed without bracts, the lobes 

 ovate, blunt, shorter than the corolla tube. Corolla white, bell-shaped, 

 about one-eighth of an inch long, with five ovate, rounded and blunt 

 spreading lobes, the lobes nearly as long as the tubular part of the corolla. 

 Within the corolla there are five fringed scales alternate with the lobes of 

 the corolla and shorter than the corolla tube. Stamens five, alternate 

 with the corolla lobes and inserted upon the upper part of the tube of the 

 corolla. Fruit a globular capsule, one-eighth of an inch in diameter, envel- 

 oped or capped by the withering corolla. 



