MORNING-GLORY FAMILY. 



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| to \\ ft. long; herbage glabrous and slightly succulent; leaves 

 thick, reniform, deep green and shining, 1 to 2 in. broad, mostly 

 broader than long, on stout petioles; corolla short and rather broadly 

 funnelform, 1£ to 2 in. broad, pinkish or pale purple; capsule 

 becoming 1-celled. 



Sandy beaches of the seashore: San Francisco and north and south 

 along the coast. Apr.-June. 



2. C. sepium L. Hedge Bindweed. Stems from a slender 

 horizontal rootstock, often several ft. long, climbing on herbaceous 

 plants or trailing; herbage nearly glabrous; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate at apex, hastate at base, 2 to 3 in. long, on slender 

 petioles shorter than the blade; peduncles longer than the leaves, 

 1 -flowered; bracts ovate, cordate at base, completely enclosing the 

 calyx; corolla pinkish, 1 to 2 in. long. — (C. limnophilus Greene.) 



Introduced in the Suisun Marshes. June. The plant of the 

 Eastern U. S. often has white flowers, as is likely to be the case 

 with us. 



3. C. villosus (Kell.) Gray. Similar to the next in habit and 

 equally variable, the whole plant white with a dense velvety tomen- 

 tum; leaves sharply triangular or ovoid, sagittate, the lobes entire or 

 shallowly sinuate; peduncles 1-flowered, often flexuous or curved, 

 especially in age; corolla funnelform, creamy white, H in. long 

 or less. 



High dry slopes of the Coast Ranges: Monterey; Mt. Diablo; 

 Conn Valley, Napa Co.; Mt. St. Helena and northward to Mt. 

 Shasta. Sierra Nevada. May-June. 



4. C. subacaulis (H. & A.) Greene. Stems 1 to 15 in. long, 

 when short erect, when longer trailing, or frequently acaulescent; 

 leaves thin, hirsutulous with somewhat appressed hairs, ovoid or 

 deltoid, hastate or truncate at base, mostly 1 in. long; peduncles 



1- flowered, \ to 1 in. long; bracts smallish, embracing but not enclos- 

 ing the calyx; corolla campanulate-funnelform , angularly 5-lobed, H 

 to 2 in. broad, white or creamish, with purplish exterior. 



Dry hills from Vacaville and Conn Valley (Napa Co.) to Santa 

 Clara Co., Monterey and southward. Apr -June. 



5. C. luteolus Gray. Climbing over tree.-? and shrubs 5 to 20 ft. 

 in height, the stems woody below; leaves glabrous and glaucous, 

 sagittate at base, the upper portion or terminal lobe varying from 

 triangular to narrowly lanceolate; basal lobes large, very variable, 

 sometimes nearly as large as the terminal lobe, angular, shallowly 



2- lobed or somewhat saliently and acutely Lobed; blades 1 to 2 in. in 

 length from summit of petiole to apex, the width from tip to tip of 

 lobes often as much or more; peduncles 1 to 5, commonly 1 to 



3- flowered, 2 to 5 in. long; bracts subulate-lanceolate or oblong and 

 acute, distant their length to \ their length from the calyx; corolla 

 open-funnelform, white, the exposed portion of the folds purplish, 1 

 to 1^ in. long; limb not lobed, scarcely angular; capsule 1-celled. 



Common throughout the Coast Ranges. Apr.-June; or near the 



