174: COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS- 



Iwining. Leaves halberd - shaped. Peduncles 4 - aii£;led, 

 □orolla commonly rose-coloured. — Moist banks. 



2. C. Spithamse'a, Pursh. {Convolvulus spUhamceus, Jj., 

 in Macoun's Catalogue.) Stem low and simple, upright or 

 iscending, not twining, 6-12 inches high. Leaves oblong, 

 more or less heart-shaped at the base. Corolla white. — Dry- 

 soil. 



2. CONVOl'VUirs, L. Bindweed. 



C. arven'sis, L. (Bindweed.) Stem twining or procum- 

 bent and low. Leaves ovate-oblong, sagittate, the lobes 

 acute. Corolla white, or tinged with red. 



3. CirS'CKTA, Tourn. Dodder. 



1. C. Grono'vii, Willd. Stems resembling coarse thitads, 

 spreading themselves over herbs and low bushes. Corolla- 

 lobes obtuse, spreading. Capsule globose, abruptly pointed. 

 Flowers in loose panicled cymes. — "Wet shady places. 



2. C. aPVen'SiS, Beyrich. Stems pale and slender, low. 

 Flowers in dense clusters. Capsule depressed-glohose. Co- 

 rolla-lobes acute, with inflexed points. Stamen-scales deeply 

 fringed. — Dry ridges, N.W. 



3. C. EpiFinum, Weihe. (Flax Dodder.) Stems very- 

 slender, low. Flowers sessile in dense scattered heads. 

 Corolla short-cylindrical, hardly exceeding the calyx, per- 

 sistent round the capsule. Stamen-scales short and broad. 

 Capsule globose, circumoissile. — Atl. Prov.; introduced. 



Order LXVIIL SOLANA'CE.^. (Nightshade Family.) 



Eank-scented herbs (or one species shrubby), with colour- 

 less bitter juice, alternate leaves, and regular pentamerous 

 and pentandrous flowers, hut a Z-ceUed (in Nicandra 3-5- 

 celled) ovary, with the placentae in the axis. Fruit a many- 

 seeded berry or pod. 



Synopsis of the Genera. 

 1. Sola'niim. Corolla wheel-shaped, S-lobed, the margins turned in- 

 ward in the bud. Anthers conniving around the style, the ceiis 

 opening by pores at the apex; filaments very short. The larger 

 leaves often with an accompanying smaller one. Fruit a berry. 



