VINES AND SIIKi 



5-parted, its lobes nearly as long a tho e ol the deeply parted 

 corolla. Flowers, not expanding, bell-shape. At the ba 1 



the corolla, opposite its lobes, alternate with the 



5 triangular appendages. Fruit, 2 slender pods 3 or i 1:. 



Flowers in cymose clusters, with pedicels, terminal or axillary. 



The central cyme is first in bloom. June to August. 



A common and variable shrub, growing Of) banks of streams, 

 or smaller and more spreading on sea-beaches; sometimes 

 found in drier soil. New England to Florida and across the 

 continent. 



Wild Potato Vine. Man-of-the-Earth 



loomoea pandurkta. — Family, Convolvulus. Color, white with 

 purple stripes and sometimes purple center. Leaves, roundish, 



heart - shape at base, pointed, with long petioles, entire, the 

 later ones sometimes 3-lobed. Corolla, open, funnel-form, the 

 limb 5-divided by folds down the places of division and points 

 in the middle, 2 to 3 inches long. Flowers, 1 to 5, on peduncles 

 which are longer than the petioles. June to September. 



A trailing or twining vine, with long, stout stems, resem- 

 bling the morning glory. Root tuberous, very large, giving 

 the plant one of its common names, man-of-the-earth. Dry 

 ground, fields and hills, Connecticut to Florida and west- 

 ward. 



Field Bindweed 



Convolvulus arvensis. — Family, Convolvulus. Color, whit 

 with a pink tinge. Leaves, small, 1 to 2 inches long, arrow-shape 

 at base, the basal lobes pointed, diverging, on slender peti 

 shorter than the peduncles. Corolla, funnel-form, its limb plaited, 

 distinctly divided into 5 lobes. Flowers, usually in pairs, some- 

 times single, on slender peduncles on which are 2 or 3 small 

 bracts, and perhaps 1 more on one of the pedicels. Bloss* 

 small, about 1 inch across. May to September. 



A trailing or twining vine from a perennial rootstock. be- 

 coming a weed near the coast. Flowers open with sunlight 

 and close at night. In waste grounds and dry fields, from 

 New Jersey and Pennsylvania, westward and northward. 



Hedge Bindweed 



C, septum, — Color, white or light pink. Flower, larger than 

 the last, about 2 inches across. It may further be distinguished 



by two large, leafy hraets tinder the ealyx. Flowers, single, «>n 



long, slender peduncles which are 4-angled. Lecnx t, triangular, 



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