842 coNvoLvuLACEJi;. (convolvulus family.) 



3. PHARBITIS, Chois. Moening-Glory. 



Sepals 5. Corolla bell-shaped or funnel-shaped, 5-plaited. Stanniens dilated 

 at the base, included. Style simple : stigma globose. Capsule 3 - 4-celled, 3 - 

 4-valved, 6-8-seeded. — Twining herbs, with petioled cordate entire or lobed 

 leaves, and single or cymose blue or purple flowers, on axillary bracted pe- 

 duncles. 



1 . P. hisnida, Chois. Annual ; stem glandular-roughened and hairy ; 

 leaves entire, round-cordate, acuminate ; peduncles mostly longer than the leaves, 

 3 - 5-flowered ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, mostly hairy ; corolla showy, blue, 

 purple, or variegated. (Convolvulus purpureas, i.) — Around dwellings. In- 

 troduced. June - Sept. 



2. P. Nil, Chois. Annual, hairy ; leaves membranaceous, broadly cordate, 

 3-lobed, the lobes acuminate; peduncles shorter than the leaves, 2- 3-flowered; 

 sepals densely hispid, ending in a long subulate point ; bracts linear ; corolla 

 purple. (Convolvulus Nil, L.) — Cultivated ground, Florida, and northward. 

 July- Sept. — Corolla Ij' long, 



4. IPOMCEA, L. Morxing-Glory. 

 Sepals 5. Corolla bell-shaped or funnel-shaped, 5-plaited. Stamens dilated 

 at the base, included (except No. 8). Ovary 2-celled, rarely imperfectly 4-celled. 

 Style simple : stigma capitate, 2-lobed. Capsule 2-celled, 2 -4-valved, 4-seeded, 

 or, by abortion, 1 - 3-seeded. Seeds smooth or hairy. — Twming or trailing 

 rarely erect herbs, with cordate or sagittate entire or variously lobed leaves, and 

 showy white or purple flowers on axillary peduncles. 



* Flowers crowded in a hafy-bracted capitate cyme : corolla small, bell-shaped. 



1. I. tamnifolia, L. Hairy ; stem erect or twining ; leaves cordate-ovate, 

 acuminate, somewhat plicate with impressed parallel veins ; peduncles longer than 

 the petioles ; lower bracts longer than the many-flowered heads ; sepals subulate, 

 bristly, nearly as long as the blue corolla ; stigmas distinct ; capsule depressed, 

 somewhat 4-sided. — Cultivated ground, Florida to South Carolina, and west- 

 ward. July -Oct. @ — Stem 1° -4° long. Corolla J' long. 



* * Flowers solitary, or few in an open cyme. 

 H- Corolla hell-shaped : leaves orbicular : stems prostrate. 



2. I. Pes-Caprse, Sweet. Smooth and fleshy ; stem prostrate ; leaves 

 petioled, orbicular, or slightly notched at the apex, parallel-veined ; peduncles 

 1 -3-flowered, the ovate bracts minute; sepals oval or oblong, obtuse, mucro- 

 nate; tube of the corolla very short. (I. orbicularis. Ell.) — Drifting sands 

 along the coa.st, Florida and Georgia. Aug. -Oct. % — Leaves 2' long. Co- 

 rolla 2' long, purple. 



^- -1- Corolla {mostly small) bell-shaped: capsule hairy: seeds smooth or nearly so: 

 stems slender, twining : leaves petioled, cordate, entire or 3-lobed : stamens 

 included. 



3. I. eommutata, R. & S. Stem pubescent or hairy ; leaves thin, cor- 

 date, acuminate, entire, angled or 3-lobed, the lateral lobes acute or sometimes 



