THREE-COLORED COKVOLVULUS 



Stem. — Trailing and ascending; rises from twelve to eighteen inches, 

 angular, hairy, branching. 



Leaves. — Linear-oblong, or obovate, rather coarse. 



Flowers. — Large and showy, loosely cymose, three-colored, blue, 

 white, and yellow. 



Calyx. — Hairy, five-lobed; lobes pointed. 



Corolla. — Funnel-shaped, one and a half to two inches "across; border 

 blue with white throat, the tube yellow. 



Stamens. — Five, of varying heights, inserted on corolla-tube. 



Ovary. — Four-celled; style thread-like; stigma two-parted. 



Convolvulus tricolor gets its name from its colors; blue edge, 

 white middle, pale-yellow at the throat, is the regulation coloring, 

 the blue extending in lines through the white, almost meeting the 

 yellow. Any plant that wiU bloom continually through August 

 is a prize. 



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