CHAP, i.] from Brunfels to Kaspar Banhin. 27 



officinae Volubilem mediam et vitealem appellant, Germani 

 Mittelwinden oder Weingartenwinden. Recte autem Cissam- 

 pelos dicitur, in vineis enim potissimum nascitur et folio 

 hederaceo. Convolvulus vero quod crebra revolutione vici- 

 nos frutices et herbas implicet. 



For?na. Folia habet hederae similia, minora tamen, ramulos 

 exiguos circumplectentes quodcumque contigerint. Folia 

 denique ejus scansili ordine alterna subeunt. Flores primum 

 candidos lilii effigie, dein in puniceum vergentes, profert 

 Semen angulosum in folliculis acinorum specie. 



Locus. In vineis nascitur, unde etiam ei appellatio cissam- 

 peli, ut diximus, indita est. 



Tempiis. Aestate, potissimum autem Julio et Augusto men- 

 sibus, floret.' 



HIERONYMUS BocK 1 , at page 299 of his ' Herbal,' published 

 at Strassburg in 1560, describes the same plant and Convolvu- 

 lus sepium as follows : 



' Of the white wind-bell. 



' Two common wind-plants grow everywhere in our land 

 with white bell-flowers. The larger prefers to dwell by hedges, 

 and creeps over itself, twists and twines, etc. The little wind- 

 or bell-flower (Convolvulus arvensis) is like the large one with 

 its roots, round stems, leaves and bell-flowers, in all things 

 smaller, thinner, and shorter. Some flowers on this plant are 

 quite white, some of a beautiful flesh colour, painted with red 

 dish brown streaks. It grows in dry meadows, in herb- and 

 onion-gardens, and does harm therein, because with its creeping 

 and twining it oppresses other garden herbs, and is also bad to 

 exstirpate, because the thin white rootlets make their way deep 



1 Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) was born at Heiderbach in the Zwei- 

 briicken in 1498 ; he was destined to the cloister, but embraced Protest- 

 antism and became a schoolmaster in Zweibriicken and superintendent of 

 the Prince's garden ; he was afterwards preacher in Hornbach, where he 

 practised also as a physician and pursued his botanical studies ; he died in 

 1554. See Erust Meyer, ' Geschichte der Botanik,' iv. p. 303. 



