C 732 ] 



Convolvulus Sepium (£) Americanus. 

 American Great Bindweed. 



# 3 $ f ft $ 4c $ $ $ $ $&■$ $ $ ft fr 



C/iz/} #7/^ Order. 



Pentandria Monogynia, 



Generic Charatler. 



Cor. campanulata plicata. Stigm. 2. Cap/. 2-locularis : \o- 

 culis difpermis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



CONVOLVULUS fepinm ; Foliis fagittatis poftice truncatis, 

 pedunculis tetragonis unifloris, bra&cis 

 cordatis calyci approximatis. Smith FU 

 Br. 1. 233. 



CONVOLVULUS Jepium. Sp. PL 218. Curt. Lond. 



a. Europaus i corollis albis. 



P Americanus ; corollis incarnatis. 



Synonyma authorum, utpote ad varietatem europaam periinenini^ 



i)ix hujus loci videntur. 



This plant has been cultivated feveral years at the Botanic 

 Garden, Brompton, and appears to differ very little, except 

 in the colour of its flowers, from the common great Bindweed, 

 "which occurs in almoft every hedge in the vicinity of London. 

 The hinder lobes of the leaves are not indeed fo decided iv 

 truncate, but this circumftance being evidently fomewh^i 

 influenced by culture in the common variety alfo, we dare not 

 from thence form a fpecific difference. 



It poffeffes all the elegance of the common fort, which 

 appears fo beautiful in its wild ftate, is equally hardy ; and 

 from the different colour of its bloffoms, if mixed with thai, 

 cannot fail of having an exceeding good effect, where fuch 

 plants are wanted to cover a dead hedge or decorate a living 

 one. 



The European Convolvulus Jepium fometimes bean 

 flowers flightly tinged with red, but we never faw them ap- 

 proach the colour of the American variety. 



