| £4594 : 
ConvonivuLus CNroruM. SILVERY-~ 
LEAVED BIND-WEED. 
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Clafs and Order, ~ 
PeEnTANDRIA MonocGyNIA. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cor. campanulata, plicata. ° Stigmata 2. Capf. 2-locularis lo-- 
culis difpermis. ee 
S; pecific Charaéer and Synonyms. 
ses earn pee Cneorum foliis lanceolatis tomentofis, flo- 
ribus umbellatis, calycibus hirfutis, caule 
erecto. Linn. Sy. Veg. 203. Ait. Kew. 
Vol. 45M GIGS 
CONVOLVULUS argenteus umbellatus ‘ereélus. Te ournef, 3 
Inft. 84. 
~ CONVOLVULUS — ereétus creticus argenteus. Mori/. 
| Sede $6. f 2.1.95 1. e 
CONVOLVULUS fav ere€tus villofus perennis. Barr. — 
rar. 4. t. 470. Boece. Muf. 2. p. 79. te 70. 
CNEORUM — folio apace? molli, Baub. Pin. 463. 
The Convoloulus Cneorum is a native oa Spain and the PA 
vant, was cultivated in the Botanic Garden at Chelfea in 1739) 
and flowers from May to September. Ait. Kew. a 
In fize, habit, &c. this fpecies has fome affinity to ‘the 
Convolvulis linearis, igured p\. 289, but differs from it, and other — 
{pecies ufually cultivated with us, in the filky appearance of | 
its foliage, which it.is not in the artift’s power to imitate, and 
for the beauty of which, more than that of its flowers, itis very 
generally kept in colleétions of, green-houfe plants; its blof- 
foms are nearly white and rarely or never produdtive of feeds 
in this country, hence it is increafed by cuttings. 
It is a hardy green-houfe plant, requiring a dry enter than 
e a moult regimen, 3 . 
