670 CONVOLVULACEAE (CONVOLVULUS FAMILY) 



oblong-spatulate and short-petioled ; flowers almost sessile in the axils ; corolla 

 pui-ple, about 1 cm. broad. (^E. pilosus Nutt.) — Sterile plains and prairies, 

 N. Dak. and Neb. to Mo. and Tex. May-July. 



4. IPOMO^A L. Morning Glory 



Calyx not bracteate at base, but the outer sepals commonly larger. Corolla 

 salver-form or funnel-form to nearly campanulate ; the limb entire or slightly 

 lobed. Capsule globular, 4-6(by abortion fewer) -seeded, 2-4-valved. (Name, 

 according to Linnaeus, from i'^, a Bindweed^ and dfwios, like; but t\J/ is a worm.) 



§ 1. QUAmOCLIT [Tourn.] Gray. Corolla salver-form, or loith somewhat 

 funnel-form but slender tube; stamens and style exserted; flowers red; 

 annual twiners. 



1. I. QuAmoclit L. (Cypress Vine.) Leaves pinnately parted into linear- 

 thread-shaped parallel lobes ; peduncles 1-2-flowered ; corolla slender, 3.5-4 cm. 

 long, scarlet-red, or sometimes white. {Quamoclit Britton.) — Sparingly spon- 

 taneous, especially southw. July-Oct. (Introd. from Trop. Am.) 



2. I. coccinea L. Leaves heart-shaped, acuminate, entire or angled ; pedun- 

 cles 2-several-flowered ; sepals awn-pointed ; corolla light scarlet, 2-3 cm. long. 

 {Quamoclit Moench.) — River-banks and waste places, N. Y. to Mo., and 

 southw. July-Oct. (Indigenous southwestw.) Var. hederif6lia (L.) Gray. 

 Leaves deeply palmate-lobed. — River-flats, waste land, etc., from Mass. westw. 

 and southw. (Adv. from Trop. Am.) 



§ 2. EUIPOMOEA Gray. Corolla funnel-form or nearly campanulate, con^ 

 torted in the bud; stamens and style not exserted, 



* Lobes of stigma and cells 3, sepals long and narrow, attenuate upward^ mostly 



hirsute below ; corolla purple, blue, or white. (Morning Glory.) 



3. I. hederXcea Jacq. Stems retrorsely hairy ; leaves heart-shaped, S-lobed, 

 the lobes acute or acuminate ; peduncles short or rather long, 1-3-liowered ; 

 calyx densely hairy below ; corolla white and purple or pale blue, 3-4.5 cm. 

 long. — Waste and cultivated ground, from s. Me. westw. and southw. July- 

 Sept. (Introd. from Trop. Am.) 



4. I. PURPUREA (L.) Roth. (Common M.) Annual ; stems retrorsely hairy ; 

 leaves heart-shaped, acuminate, entire; peduncles long, umbellately 3-5-flow- 

 ered; calyx bristly-hairy below; corolla funnel-form, 4.5-7 cm. long, purple, 

 varying to white. — Escaped in cultivated grounds. (Introd. from Trop. Am.) 



* * Stigma 2-lobed or entire ; cells 2, each 2-seeded ; sepals broader, imbricated ; 



leaves cordate, acuminate. 



5. I. pandurita (L.) G. F. W. Mey. (Wild Potato-vine, Man-of-the- 

 Earth.) Perennial, smooth or nearly so when old, trailing'or sometimes twin- 

 ing ; leaves occasionally contracted at the sides so as to be fiddle-shaped \ 

 peduncles longer thari the petioles^ 1-5-flowered ; sepals smooth, ovate-oblong, 

 very obtuse; corolla open-funnel-form, 4.5-8 cm. long, white, with purple in the 

 tube. — Dry ground, Ct. to Ont., southw. and southwestw. June-Sept.— 

 Stems long and stout, from a huge root, which often weighs 4-8 (-11) kg. 



6. I. lacuribsa L. Annual ; rather smooth ; stem twining and creeping, slen- 

 der ; leaves entire or angle-lobed ; peduncles short, 1-3-flowered ; sepals lance- 

 oblong, pointed, bristly -ciJiate or hairy, half the length of the sharply 5-lobed 

 (white, 1-2 cm. long) corolla. —River-banks and low grounds. Pa. to III, Kan., 

 and southw.; adv. on ballast north w. 



5. C0NV6lVULUS [Tourn.] L. Bindvteed 



Corolla funnel-form to campanulate. Stamens included. Capsule globose, 

 2-celled, or imperfectly 4-celled by spurious partitions between the 2 seeds, or 

 by abortion 1-celled, mostly 2-4-valved. — Herbs or somewhat shrubby plants, 

 twining, erect, or prostrate. (Name from convolvere, to entwine.) 



