IPOMCEA QUAMOCLIT. 



QUAMOCLIT. 



Pentandria Monogynia, Linn. Convolvuli, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix 5-cleft. Corolla funnel-form or campanulate, 5-plaited. Stigma capitate, globose. 

 Capsule 2 or 3-celled, many-seeded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Leaves pennate, pinnatifid, segments linear, flowers bright crimson, capsule ovate, 

 2-seeded? seeds sub-cylindric-oblong. 



This beautiful and favourite vine is indigenous to the hotter parts 

 of North America. It attains the height even in cultivation in pots 

 and common gardens, of ten or fifteen feet, and with care is readily 

 made to attain a stature many feet higher. Its foliage is late appearing, 

 and rather slow in its first growth — after midsummer, how ever, the 

 vine quickly creeps up the threads and other supports prepared for it. 



vol. m. 20 



