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Convolvulus Alth^oides. Silky- 

 Leaved Convolvulus. 

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Oafs and Order. 



Pentandria Moxogynia, 



Generic Chara&er. 



Cor. campanulata plicata. Stigmata 2. Capf. 2-locularis: lo- 



culis difpermis. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 

 CONVOLVULUS altbaoidcs foliis cordatis finuatis fericeis : 

 lobis repandis ; pedunculis bifloris. Linn. 

 Syji. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 202. Jit, 

 Kew, v. 1 . p. an. var. (3. 

 CON VOLVU LUS argentcus Ahhseae folio. Bauh. Pin. p. 295. 

 CONVOLVULUS Altbfcae folio. Ouf. bhft. p. xlix. fig. 

 PAPAVER cornutum luteum minus. Ger. Herb. p. 294./. 4* 

 CONVOLVULUS argenteus elegantiflimus foliis tenuiter in- 

 cifis. Touraef. Inf. 85. 



The name of Althccoides and the defcription of Linn.su* 

 accord much better with the figure of this plant, as given by 

 Clusius, than with the plant ittelf as cultivated in our gardens: 

 whether the foliage of our plant becomes fmaller and more 

 finely divided by cultivation ; whether it be a diftinfcl fpecies, as 

 Miller affirms, or a permanent variety, as Mr. Air on makes 

 it, we have not been able fatisfaclorily to afcertain ; the former 

 gives no defcription of the radical leaves of his c!egani{(fimus, and 

 we have not found in any of our gardens a variety different from 

 the one here figured. This fpecies of Convolvulus, though 

 cultivated here by J. Tradescant in 1656, is far from being_ 

 common, which is the more furprifing, as the plant is eafy ot 

 culture and productive of flowers at once large and beautiful, 

 and peculiarly interefling from the extreme variablenefs of its 

 filky foliage, expanding into the mod elegant forms imaginable. 



Mr. Stevens, of Camerton-Houfe, near Bath, informs me 

 that it grows abundantly on the mountains near Victri, fouth- 

 eaft of Naples, and in the Ifle of Capri, mixed with Convolvulus 

 Cneorum, Lithofpermtim fruticofum, &c. and in the adjacent 

 iflands and continent, forming a beautiful ornament to the 

 fhrubs it entwines: Clusius obferved it in Spain and Portugal. 



It flowers with us in June and July, and is increafed without 

 difficulty by parting its roots, which are of the creeping kind, 

 in fpring or autumn. It is ufually kept in the grcenhoufe, 

 but will fuccecd very well in the open border, guarding it 

 againft the unufual feveritv of weather. 



