found to remain comprised in the synonymy of Ni/; the 
present and the one figured in the 188th plate of Curtis’s ° 
otanical Magazine by that name. And if we were to de- 
termine hederaceus and Nil by the synonyms adduced by 
_ Linneus, we should be of opinion that they included four 
species between them: 1. The asiatic plant; (Curt. bot. 
Mag. t. 188. Dill. elth. 96. t. 80, fie. 91.) 2. That from 
_ the Coast of Guinea; (Dill. elth. 97. t. 81. fig. 93.) 3. The 
South American plant figured in the Flora Peruviana of 
Ruiz and Pavon, t. 119. f. a. by the title of Ipoma:a cus- 
pidata; (Dill. elth. 99. t. 83. fig. 96.) 4. The one before 
us from North America; (Dull. elih. 96. ¢. 8. fig. 92.) 
Mr. Brown, in his Prodromus of the Flora of New Hol- 
land, according to his view of C. Nil and hederaceus of 
Linneus, has reduced them to one species, which he has 
transferred to Ipoma@a by the name of hederacea. But Jac- 
quin had already enrolled our plant in that genus by the 
same appellation, which we have maintained for it in right of 
priority; and the rather as Wi is thus vacant for the other. 
- In our plant the lateral lobes of the leaves converge to- 
wards a broader ventricosely ovate centre one, from which 
they are separated by deep contracted sinuses, rounded at 
the bottom. In the other the lateral lobes are shorter, and 
diverge from the one in the centre, which is lanceolately 
ovate, and separated by shallow divaricate sinuses, some- 
times obliterated. The tube of the calyx in the present is 
clothed with a thick hirsute tawny pubescence; the seg- 
ments are long, subulate, and revolutely patent, in the: 
other straight and conniyvent, The limb of the corolla is 
here rounded, there cornered, 
It is seen in perfection only in the very early part of the 
day, and is called “ the Morning Glory,” in America. 
The seed should be sown. in the spring, with that of other 
annuals, and the plants treated like those of the twining 
kinds. ‘The species is seldom seen in our gardens, altho’ 
known in them from the days of Parkinson. 
Native of Virginia and Carolina; growing near gardens 
and in hedges on river-sides; : 
~ The drawing was made from a plant raised in the nursery 
of Messrs. Whitley, Milne, and Brame, in the King’s Road, 
Parson’s Green, from seeds received from Paris. 
# A section of the corolla. & The pistil. ¢ Seed-vessel and calyx. | 
