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ConvVOLVULUS ERUBESCENS. MaipeEn- 
Biusu BINDWEED. — 
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Clafs and Order, 
PENTANDRIA MoNOGYNIAs. 
Generic Charaéfer. 
Cor. campanulata, plicata. Stigmata2. Cap/. a-locularis ¢ 
loculis difpermis. = ce 
Specific Charaéer. 
CONVOLVULUS erudefcens ; foliis cordato-fagittatis poftice a 
finuato-repandis, pedunculis axillaribus fo- 
litariis fubbifloris, caule volubili. 
the 
Descr: Root biennial? Stem herbaceous, rounded, 
twining. Leaves oblong, cordate-fagittate, fometimes obtufe, — 
fometimes acute, hind lobes recurvéd, repand-finuate: Pe-_ 
tiole nearly the length of the leaf, channelled on the upper 
fide. Peduncles axillary, folitary, longer than the leaf, more 
generally two-flowered, furnifhed with two minute éradics, — 
nearly oppofite, diftant from the flower. Calyx 5-parted, per- 
fiftent ; Segments nearly equal, two external ones embracing 
the others. Corol/a {mall, funnel-fhaped, flefh-coloured, mar- 
8in five-lobed: /odes obtufe with a fafcia broad below, nar- 
rowed toa point upwards, and hairy on the outfide. Stamens 
five ; filaments equal to the tube, inferted below the germen. 
Anthers ovate, 2-lobed, flefh-coloured: pollen white. Germen 
Ovate, white, fmooth, feated ona yellow glandular fubflance. — 
Style longer than ftamens : fligmas two, truncate. Capfule 
globular, {mooth, upper half naked, crowned with the per- 
fiftent ftyle, large in proportion to the flower, two-celled, with 
two feeds in each cell. The two feeds fo completely fill the cell, 
to 
