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CONVOLVULUS siculus. 
Small-flowered Bindweed. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CONVOLVULI. Jussieu gen. 132. Div. E+ 
CoNvoLvULACEE. Brown prod. 1, 481. Sect. L 
CONVOLVULUS. Supra vol. 2. ol 133. 
. Div. Caule prostrato s. non volubili, 
C. siculus, foliis cordato-ovatis superioribus acutis, junculis uniftoris ‘folio 
brevioribus, bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis calyce ciliato longioribus. Willd. 
enum. 1. 205. 
Convolvulus siculus. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 223. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 2. 
Willd. pl 1.866. Hort. Kew. 1. 212. ed. 2. 1. 335. Lamarck encyc. 
3-540. Flor. grec. t. 196. Lam. $ Decand. flor. franz. 3. 646. 
Convolvulus ovatus. Manch meth. 450. 
Convolvulus siculus minor flore o anriculato. Boecon. sic. 89. tab. 48. 
Convolvulus africanus minor. Moris. hist. 2. 18. t. 7. fig. 5. 
Annuus prostratus v. raris. subvolubilis, lis v. subsesquipedalis, 
ramosus, distanter foliosus, ramis teretibus lanato-pilosis. Fol. sparsa 
inflexione subsecundá, subeordato-ovata, sesquiuncialia v. circa latitudine 
4 partium uncie, nervosa, pilosiuscula; petiolus triplo brevior laminá v. 
ultrd. Pedunculi solitarii, axillares, uniflori, filiformi-graciles, bis longiores 
petiolis, pilosi, juxtà infra calycem opposito-bibracteati; bracteis foliaceis 
elongato-lanceolatis pubescentibus patentibus duplo longioribus calyce. Cal. 
pilosus; foliola elliptico-laneeolata, acuminata, piloso-ciliata, persistentia, 2 
interiora duplo fere minora, 3 exteriora subequalia parùm breviora corollá. 
Cor. è minimis generis, ceruleus; limbo turbinato-rotato, tubo brevi pallido. 
Caps. globosa, glabra, apiculata, 2-loc. 4-sperma, 
The smallest flowered of its genus we have met with. 
Usually ranked in the division of trailers or those which do 
not climb by twining round foreign support; but as the 
branches of our plant are sometimes seen to wind round 
each other as they lie on the ground, it seems to us to be 
rather an intermediate link between the twining and the 
trailing divisions of the genus, than to belong exclusively 
to either. : 
Native of the southernmost parts of Europe, the Coast 
of Barbary, and Greece. Cultivated, as stated in Parkin- 
son's Theatrum Botanicum, by Mr. James Boel in 1640; - 
but now very rare in our gardens, where we had never met 
with it, till last October, when we found it in a collection 
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