. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. parasitic on the stem of another plant,with two clusters of flowers, (b) The coiled embryo, (c) The same uncoiling itself CUSCUTA. Calyx and corolla 5-cleft, the latter often urn-shaped in fruit. 1. IPOMLiEA, L. Morning-Glory. Calyx 5-sepaled. Corolla broad-funnel-shaped, showy, 5-lobed orrepand, 5-plaited. Style 1, stigma capitate, generally 2-lobed. Ovary2-3-4-celled, with 2 seeds in each cell. Capsule (in ours) 2-celled —Twining, glabrous herbs or sh
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. parasitic on the stem of another plant,with two clusters of flowers, (b) The coiled embryo, (c) The same uncoiling itself CUSCUTA. Calyx and corolla 5-cleft, the latter often urn-shaped in fruit. 1. IPOMLiEA, L. Morning-Glory. Calyx 5-sepaled. Corolla broad-funnel-shaped, showy, 5-lobed orrepand, 5-plaited. Style 1, stigma capitate, generally 2-lobed. Ovary2-3-4-celled, with 2 seeds in each cell. Capsule (in ours) 2-celled —Twining, glabrous herbs or shrubs. 1. I. littoralis, L. 2^ .3 to .5, trailing on the ground, rootingby under surface of branches. Leaves fleshy, .01 to .03 long, oblong,fiddle-shaped or ihree-lobed, lateral lobes often bifid, terminal oblong-ellip-tical, all obtuse. Peduncles of 1-2 upper axils 1-flowered, shorter thanleaves; sepals elliptical, obtuse, mucronate; corolla .04 long, cream-colored, 4-6 times as long as calyx; lobes of stigma rounded; broad —Autumn — Sands along coast. 558 conyolvulace^. (convolvulus family).Fig. a f e d l Fig. 258. (a) Flovveiing branch of an IpomaBa, with leaf, flower, buds, and capsule.(b) Capsule, with three, 2-seeded cells, (c) The same after the valves have fallen, showingone seed in its relations to the cell, (d) The embr\o curved and wrinkled, (e) A cotyledonin germination, with its radicle below. (/) The two cotyledons in germination, with theradicle between them. 2. I. §agittata, Desf. ^. Trailing and twining over grass andshrubs. Lower leaves cordate-suborbicular, the others sagittate, withlinear-lanceolate ti2)S and larlis .01 to .04 long. Peduncles axillary,shorter than leaves, 1-2-flowered, minutelj^ 2-bracted near middle; sep-als elliptical, obtuse, mucronulate; corolla .06 to .07 long, ^:i;<Z., 7-8-times as long as calyx; stigma capitate, retuse; capsules .016 broad —Autumn — Marshes of Alexandretta, and northward. 3, I. palmata,
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