. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 550. Nicotiana alata. XXXVII. Convolvulus Family Herbs, mostly twining, with alternate chiefly simple leaves: flow- ers regular, 5-merous, the tubular or trumpet-shaped corolla mostly twisted in the bud, the stamens 5 and borne on the corolla; ovary commonly 1-, mostly 2-loculed, with 2 ovules in each locule, becom- ing a globular capsule in fruit (which is sometimes 4-loculed by the insertion of a false partition). The family contains between 30 and 40 genera, and nearly 1,0
. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 550. Nicotiana alata. XXXVII. Convolvulus Family Herbs, mostly twining, with alternate chiefly simple leaves: flow- ers regular, 5-merous, the tubular or trumpet-shaped corolla mostly twisted in the bud, the stamens 5 and borne on the corolla; ovary commonly 1-, mostly 2-loculed, with 2 ovules in each locule, becom- ing a globular capsule in fruit (which is sometimes 4-loculed by the insertion of a false partition). The family contains between 30 and 40 genera, and nearly 1,000 species. Common convolvulaceous plants are morning-glory, cypress vine, sweet potato, bindweed, dodder. A. Plants with normal foliage. B. Stigma 2-3-lobed, knobbed: calyx not bracted 1. Ipomoea bb. Stigmas 2, thread-form: calyx sometimes inclosed by 2 leafy bracts '. 2. Convolvulus aa. Plants leafless, parasitic 3. Cuscuta 1. IPOM<EA. Morning-glory. Mostly twining, with showy flowers on axillary peduncles: corolla with a long tube and a flaring limb; pistil 1, with one style, and the stigma 2-3-lobed: fruit a capsule, with 1-seeded locules. a. Leaves compound, with thread-like divisions. I. Quamoclit, Linn. Cypress vine. Fig. 551. Leaves pin- nate: flowers solitary, red, small, narrow-limbed, with pro- jecting style and stamens. Tropical America, but run wild South; also cultivated. Annual. aa. Leaves simple or deeply lobed, broad. 551. Ipomcea '« Bdna-N6x, Linn. White moon/lower. Fig. 552. Tall: Quamoclit. leaves heart-shaped, or angled or lobed: flowers 1 to few,. 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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