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CONVOLVULACEAE. CONVOLVULUS FAMILY. 



IPOMOEA L. Morning Glory. 

 Ipomoea coccinea L. (red) . 

 Quamoclit coccinea Moench. 

 Small Red Morning Glory. 



Rare. Southington, in waste ground (Andrews), Orange 

 (Harger). July — Sept. Fugitive from the Southwest or 

 from tropical America. 



Ipomoea hederacea Jacq. (like Hedera, the Ivy). 

 Ivy-leaved Morning Glory. 



Rare. Roadsides and waste ground as an escape from 

 gardens: New London (Graves), Glastonbury (Bissell), 

 Stratford (Eames), Oxford (Harger), Darien (Miss A. E. 

 Carpenter) . Aug. — Sept. Adventive from tropical America. 



Ipomoea purpurea (L.) Roth (purple). 

 Common Morning Glory. 



Occasional. Waste places and about old gardens as an 

 escape from cultivation. July — Sept. Adventive or fugi- 

 tive from tropical America. 



Ipomoea pandurata (L.) G. F. W. Mey. (fiddle-shaped). 

 Wild Potato-vine. Man-of-the-Earth. 



Rare. Dry soil of upland pastures : New Milford (J. W. 

 Robbins), Kent (E. H. Austin). June — Aug. 



The root is medicinal. 



CONVOLVULUS L. Bindweed. 



Convolvulus spithamaeus L. (a span long). 



Rare or local. Gravelly hillsides : Southington (An- 

 drews), Oxford (Harger), Southbury (B. B. Bristol), New 

 Milford (C. K. AveriU & E. H. Austin), Salisbury (Mrs. 

 C. S. Phelps). May— June. 



Convolvulus japonicus Thunb. 

 California Rose. 



Rare. Sandy fields as an escape from cultivation, mostly 

 in the double-flowered form: Plainville (Bissell), Southington 

 (Andrews), Trumbull (Eames), Wilton (Miss A. E. Carpen- 

 ter). July. Adventive from eastern Asia. 



