284 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Convolvulus. 



The plants have a milky juice. Stem leafy, herbaceous, 

 rarely woody, generally twining, from right to left, or 

 procumbent. Leaves alternate, simple, stalked, without 

 stipulas. Fl. axillary or terminal, on bracteated stalks ; 

 their colours various. Ours have all axillary, reddish or 

 white^ Jloxvey'S, and their roots are perennial, creeping ex- 

 tensively. 



1. C. ai'vensis. Small Bindweed. 



Leaves arrow-shaped, acute at each end. Stalks mostly 

 single-flowered. Bracteas minute, remote from the 

 flower. 



C. arvensis. Linn. Sp. PL 218. PVilkl v. I. 844. Fl. Br. 232, 

 Engl. Bot. i\ 5. f. 3 1 2. Curt. Lond.fasc. 2. t.\3. Mart. Rust. 

 t. 89. Hook. Scot. 73. Fl. Dan. t. 459. Bull. Fr. t. 269. 



C. n. 664. Hall. Hist. v.\. 295. 



C. minor vulgaris. Raii Syn. 275. 



Smilax lenis minor. Ger. Em. 861.^". 



Helxine cissampelos. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 359./. Camer. Epit. 

 753./. Fuchs. Hist. 258./. 



/3. Convolvulus arvensis minimus. Raii Syn. 276. 



C. angustissimo folio nostras, cum auriculis. Pluk. Phyt. t. 24./ 3. 



y. C. flore minimo, ad unguem fere secto. DM. in Raii Syn. 276. 



In hedges, fields and gardens, very common ; an almost uncon- 

 querable weed, especially on a gravelly soil. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root creeping, branching, extending to a great depth. Stems nu- 

 merous, angular, twining or prostrate, leafy, slightly downy, not 

 much branched. Leaves various in breadth, entire, smooth, on 

 channelled downy /oo^5^«ZA-5, not one fourth of their own length. 

 Flower-stalks as long as the leaves, sometimes divided, angular, 

 swelling upward, bearing 2 minute, downy, lanceolate bracteas 

 about their middle. FL fragrant like Heliotrope, but fainter, 

 very beautiful, of every shade of pink, with paler or yellowish 

 plaits, and stains of crimson in the lower part ; sometimes they 

 are nearly white. They close before rain. Anth. red, or white. 

 Stigmas linear, downy, almost equal in length to the style. I 

 have never seen the capsule or seeds. 



2. C. sepium. Great Bindweed. 



Leaves arrow-shaped, abrupt at the posterior lobes. Stalks 

 square, single- flowered. Bracteas heart-shaped, close to 

 the flower. 



C.sepium. Linn.Sp.PL2\8. Willd. v. \. 844. FL Br. 233. Engl. 

 Bot. v.5.t.3\3. Curt Lond.fasc. I. t.\3. Mart. Rust. t. 88. 

 Hook. Scot. 74. FL Dan. t. 458. 



