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* With leaves and cotyledons. 



1. Convolvulus. Cor. bellshaped, with 5 prominent plaits 

 and 5 shallow lobes. Style simple ; stigmas 2. Caps. 2 — 4- 

 ceUed ; cells 2-seeded.— G. F. tt. Gam. i. 63, 64. 



** Without leaves or cotyledons. 



■2. OuscuTA. Cal. 4 — 9-cleft. Cor. roundish-urceolate or 

 beUshaped, 4 — 5-parted, with as many scales alternating 

 with the segments at the base within. Stam. 4 — 5. Styles 

 2, rarely 1. Caps, bursting transversely, 2-celled, 4-seeded. 

 — G. F. G. Gam. i. 65. 



1. Cojsttol'ytoijs Linn. Bindweed. 

 * Bracts mimdej distant from thejlower. 



1. C. arvenlsis (L.) ; 1. arrowshaped with acute lobes, pe- 

 duncles mostly l-flowered. — St. many, angular, twining or 

 prostrate, leafy, branched. Peduncles sometimes 2-flowered. 

 Cor. beautifully variegated with pink and white. Caps. 

 2-ceUed. Roots descending remarkaoly deep. Plant glabrous, 

 or St. and 1. downy.— Fields and hedges. P. vl. — VIII. E. S. I. 



** Bracts large, close to thefiower. Caltstegia E. Br. 



2. C. septum (L.) ; 1. arrowshaped with truncate lobes, pe- 

 duncles l-flowered square. — St. twining, many feet long, with 

 large rather distant leaves. Fl. solitary, axillary, large, white, 

 rarely pink. Bracts quite enclosing the calyx. Fr. imperfectly 

 2-celled through the shortness of the dissepiments-Hedges 

 and thickets. P. VH. Vm. E.,S. I. 



3. C Soldanel'la (L.) ; 1. reniform slightly angular fleshy, pe- 

 duncles l-flowered with 4 membranous angles. — St. short, pro- 

 cumbent. Fl. large, solitary, axillary, very handsome, pink with 

 yellow bands. Bracts rather shorter than the calyx. — Sandy 

 sea-shores. P. VI. — VIH. Sea-side Bindweed. E. S. I. 



2. Cuscu'ta Linn. Dodder. 



1. C. ewropce'a (L.j ; cliLsters of fl. sessile, cor. -tube cylindrical 

 afterwards ventricose, scales adpressed to inside of tube bifid dis- 

 tant below with rounded spaces between them, cal. much shorter 

 than corolla. — St. threadshaped, branching, reddish. Fl. in 

 rather large clusters, yellowish. — Parasitical upon herbaceous 

 plants. A. Vni. IS. ' Greater Dodder. E. S. 



[ C. Epilinum (Weihe) ; clusters of fl. sessile,' cor. -tube ventri- 

 cose, scales adpressed fringed with teeth distant below with 

 rounded spaces, cal. with Jkshy segments ddtoidhekm nearly ailmtg 



