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(25) Convolvulus sagittifolius^ Mx. non Smith, Ipo- 

 maea sagittifolia, Ker. Icon. Catesby Nat. Hist. Car. 

 vol. i. Tab. 35. Quoted under C. arvensis Eat. Man. ! 



All over very smooth. Leaves sagittate, oblong and 

 linear ; auricles often expanding into a hastate form, 

 ' acuminate. Peduncles shorter than the petioles, with the 

 bractes above the middle ; flowers rose colored, large as 

 C. panduratus. Calyx leaves rounded, mucronate. 

 Flowers in August. 



Grows on the borders of saline marshes at Smithville, 

 prostrate, or twining on other plants. I have met with 

 it in one instance in woods, half a mile from the tide water, 

 where other saline plants are not found, 



Michaux, under this plant, refers to Pluk. T. 85, f. 3, 

 (referred to by Linnaeus under C. Wheeleri,) which has 

 an evident resemblance to it ; but the flower Is too small, 

 not so open, the border more entire ? calyx not mucro- 

 nate, auricles of the leaves obtuse, and the leaves appear 

 to be slightly peltate. Ipomasa sagittata, Poir. is re- 

 ferred to the same figure in Plukenet, and C. Wheeleri 



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quoted as a synonyme. That author expresses a doubt 

 whether Michaux's plant is the same, and leaves it unde- 



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termined, on account of a deficiency in the description. 

 But Poiret's plant being an Ipomsea, it is to be inferred, 



. that he found a single stigma, and the capsule is 5 valved. 



Michaux' plant has two globose stigmas and a capsule 



2-3 valved according to Mr. Elliott. 



Smith has a C. sagittifolius in the Flor. Graec. of later 



date than Michaux' name. 



(26) Convolvulus Pickeringii. Prostrate, villous ; 

 Leaves linear, 12-15 lines long, one line wide, obtuse, 

 not mucronate ; Peduncles longer than the leaves, 3 

 flowered ; Flowers aggregate at the summit, two of 



