. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 552. Ipomoea Bona-Nox. 2. CONVOLVULUS. Bindweed. Herbs (or shrubs) twining or erect: flowers large, on axillary peduncles; sepals 5; corolla funnelform or bell-form, limb entire, 5-angled or 5-lobed; stamens inserted on corolla-tube, included; style 1; stigmas 2, long; ovary and pod 2-celled, 4-seeded. C. sepium, Linn. Rutland beauty. Perennial: twining or trailing stem: leaves heart-shaped or arrow-shaped, auricles often toothed: flowers axil- lary and solitary on a peduncle; calyx with 2 l
. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 552. Ipomoea Bona-Nox. 2. CONVOLVULUS. Bindweed. Herbs (or shrubs) twining or erect: flowers large, on axillary peduncles; sepals 5; corolla funnelform or bell-form, limb entire, 5-angled or 5-lobed; stamens inserted on corolla-tube, included; style 1; stigmas 2, long; ovary and pod 2-celled, 4-seeded. C. sepium, Linn. Rutland beauty. Perennial: twining or trailing stem: leaves heart-shaped or arrow-shaped, auricles often toothed: flowers axil- lary and solitary on a peduncle; calyx with 2 large bracts at base, inclosing it; corolla morning-glory-like, white or pink, >£-2 in. long, margin quite entire. Wild in low grounds. Summer. C. arvensis, Linn. Bindweed. Perennial, nearly glabrous, prostrate or climbing: leaves entire arrow-shaped, with basal ears acute-lobed, but vari- able: calyx not bracted at base; corolla pink, nearly white, small, not over 1 in. long. Europe. Bad weed. May to September. 3. CUSCUTA. Dodder. Parasitic twiners without foliage (leaves reduced to scales): flowers in clusters, the calyx and corolla with 4-5 lobes: fruit 2- loculed, 4-seeded. C. Gronovii, Willd. (Fig. 553), is the commonest species, twining its slender coral-yellow stems over coarse herbs in swales: corolla bell-shaped, the tube longer than the blunt and spreading lobes. XXXVIII. Borage Family. Generally rough herbs, with round sterns, leaves usually alternate and hairy, exstipulate: inflores- cence commonly 1-sided, in coiled terminal racemes, straightening as flowers open; lobes of calyx 5: lobes of corolla 5, usually regular; stamens 5, on corolla-. 553. Cuscuta |]' Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York, Macmillan
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