_ “rieties I have cultivated many years, without obferving the 
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~ConvoivuLus Purpureus. PurpLe Binp- 
WEED, or Convo._vuLus Major. : 
Se sete TESTE SESS Te MSE EEE 
-Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA; 
Generic Charaéer. 
Corolla campanulata, plicata. Szigmata 2. Capfula 2-locularis, : 
-loculis difpermis. 
Specific Charaffer and Synonyms. 
CONVOLVULUS purpurens foliis cordatis indivifis, frufis 
bus cernuis, pedicellis incraflatis.. Lins. 
Syft. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 200. 
CONVOLVULUS purpureus folio fubrotundo. Bauh. Pit 
2 
5: 
CONVOLVULUS ceruleus major rotundifolius. 
The greater blew Bindweede or Bell-flower with round 
leaves. Park. Parad. p. 358. 
Ts an annual plant which grows naturally in Afia and Ame=_ 
“rica, but has been long cultivated for ornament in the 
“Englifh gardens, and is generally known by the title of 
** Convolvulus major. Of this there are three or four lafting 
*€ varieties; the moft common hatha purple flower, but there 
~ *is oné with a white, another with a red, and one with 
_ *‘ whitifh-blue flower, which hath white feeds. All thefe v 
“to change. If the feeds of thefe forts are fown in the {prin 
“upon a warm border where the plants are defigned to Te~ 
, flower in June, J 
_ © Augult, and will continue till the froft kills them. aa 
_ “ feeds ripen in Autumn.” Miller's Gard, Dit. ed. 4l00 477% 
