No. 18] Convolvulus (Convolvulacece). 145 



Fruit, globose or oval, brown, with a stout boss-like pro- 

 jection at the apex. Corolla persistent at the base. 



Found, in wet and shaded grounds from Canada westward, 

 and southward to Florida and Texas. Our most 

 common species ; the only one found throughout 

 New England. 



Var. latifiora, Eng., has more delicate flowers with the 

 tube of the corolla shortened, and its lobes lengthened to 

 about the same dimensions ; with narrow scales. Common 

 northward. 



(7) Compact Dodder. C. compdcta, yuss. 



Flowers, stemless, in close, compact clusters. Corolla, 

 with a cylindrical tube. Corolla-lobes, five, spreading, 

 oblong, blunt. Sepals, five, separate, rounded, hol- 

 lowed, and slightly round-toothed, surrounded by 

 three to five similar bracts. Scales, at the base of 

 the stamens, large and deeply fringed. July to Sep- 

 tember. 



Fruit, somewhat pointed, often with the withered corolla 

 at its summit. 



Found, from Ontario, along the west side of the Alle- 

 ghany Mountains to Alabama and Texas, nearly 

 always on shrubs — Hazel, Alder, etc. 



(8) Coiled Dodder. C.glonierata, Choisy. 



Flowers, stemless, in very dense continuous clusters. Co- 

 rolla, tubular. Corolla-lobes, five, oblong to lance- 

 shape, usually blunt, spreading or reflexed. Sepals, 

 five, one twelfth inch in length, separate, oblong, 

 their tips recurved, shorter than the tube of the 

 corolla, surrounded by numerous similar bracts. 

 Style, several times longer than the seed-case. Scales, 

 large and deeply fringed. 



