240 OCTANDRIA— TETRAGYNIA. Paris. 



P. Convolvulus. Linn. Sp.Pl. 522. PVilld. v.2.4o5. Fl. Br. 430. 



Engl. Bot. V. 14. f. 941. Curt. Lond. fasc. 4. t. 29. Hook. 



Scot. 122. Fl.Dan.t.744. 

 P. n. 1561. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 260. 

 Fegopyrum scandens sylvestre. Raii Sy7i. 144. 

 Volubilis nigra. Ger. Em. 863./. 

 Convolvulus minor, semine triangulo. Bauh. Pin. 295. 

 Helxine semine triangulo. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 157./. 158. 

 H. caule volubili. Linn. Fl. Lapp. n.l54. ed, 1. 116. ed. 2. 123. 



In corn-fields, gardens, hedges, and osier-grounds. 



Annual. June — September. 



Root small, tapering. Stem twining from left to right, round 

 every thing in its way, to the height of 5 or G feet, branched, 

 leafy, angular, often roughish. Leaves alternate, stalked, bright 

 green, generally with a red mid-rib, wavy, smooth, arrow- 

 shaped, a little approaching to a heart-shape. Clusters lax, 

 interrupted, leafy, stalked, terminating the short lateral branches. 

 Fl. drooping, greenish-white, or reddish ; their 3 outer seg- 

 ments with a blunt, flat, not much dilated, keel ; 3 inner ones 

 smallest. Stam 8, occasionally but 6. Styles sometimes 2 only. 

 Seed triangular, dark brown, shining, concave at the sides, 

 rather smaller than the preceding, food for birds, and without 

 doubt wholesome for mankind, if at any time worth collecting. 



OCTANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. 

 221. PARIS. Herb Paris. 



Linn. Gew. 198. Juss. 42. Fl. Br. 431. Lam. t. 319. Gcertn. 



t.83. 

 Herba Paris. Tourn. t. 117. 



Nat. Ord. Sarmentacece. Linn. 11. Aspa7-agi. Juss. 12. 



Cal. inferior, of 4 lanceolate, acute, spreading, permanent 

 leaves, the length of the corolla. Pet. 4, spreading, awl- 

 shaped, equal, permanent, similar to the calyx, but nar- 

 rower, and alternate with it. Fiiam. 8, awl-shaped, rather 

 short below the anthers, which are long, linear, of 2 cells, 

 united by their backs to the middle part of the filaments, 

 whose points rise above them. Germ, superior, roundish, 



