THE MORNING-GLORY FAMILY. 



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and which freely blooms in pink, purple, blue, white or even variegated 

 tints, has been naturalised from tropical America and is now abundantly es- 

 caped from cultivation. Its cordate leaves are entire. While aliovicihcr 

 lovely, especially when it lingers in bloom so late that it sees the golden- 

 rods and wild carrots crowding each other for space, it is one of the farmer's 

 trials. He dreads it in his fields as he does the daisy and finds it equally 

 difficult to exterminate. 



Coiivdlvulus repens, trailing bindweed, combines a railur large white 

 flower with sagittate leaves, the basal lobes of which are strongly rounded 

 and but slightly divergent. A marked peculiarity also of its Mowers is the 

 two ovate bracts which enclose the calyx. In its growth its stem is very 

 twining, and mostly it is found from Florida to Virginia and westward. 



Convolvulus spithdjnaeus, upright bindweed, is on the contrary of as- 

 cending habit and only sometimes slightly twines towards its summit. Its 

 white, solitary flowers are quite large and have their calyxes enclosed by 

 two oval bracts acute at their apices. The leaves occur either oval and ob- 

 tuse at both ends, or ovate-lanceolate and slightly cordate at the bases. On 

 both sides they are usually pubescent. In rocky, sandy fields it grows and 

 from May until August is rather a constant bloomer. 



Qudnioclit coccinea, the small, red morning-glory, fairly an enchanting lit- 

 tle member of the order, casts about bright red flowers, shading to orange 

 in their centres, and shows the limb of its salver-shaped corolla to measure 

 hardly half-an-inch broad. Its lobes also are mostly obscure. At their 

 apices the graceful, cordate leaves are long pointed. Until late, very late in 

 the season, these small blossoms linger, often showing themself along fences 

 or wound tightly about the stems of members of the Compositas. Once I 

 saw^ an individual which had climbed to the top 

 of a tall wild carrot, and very gay the red flecks 

 looked pushing themselves through the other's flat 

 heads of fleecy white. 



Q. Qudmoch't, cypress vine, Indian pink or 

 winged-leaved ipomoea, also a most bewitching 

 little vine, is known from the small, red morning-glory 

 by its leaves being pinnately divided into very long, nar- 

 row segments, and because the lobes of its corolla's flat 

 limb are ovate and pronounced. It also is deeply and 

 brilliantly scarlet. Both of these 

 Quamoclits have been naturalised 

 from tropical America, while about 

 many old gardens from Florida to 

 Virginia this one is seen growing spon- 



Qudmoclit ^uainocfif, 



