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PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Vinca 



mi': 





, Dry heaths and hills in a calcareous soil. [Common in Dor 

 sctsh. Dr. Pulteney.— Chalk cliffs on the S. W. side of th< 



Wight 



Mr. Wood 



In the loose sand by the ferry leading to Portland Island. Mr. 



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June, J 



Fruit-stalis curved. 



VIN'CA. Bloss. salver-shaped : seed-vess. 1 upright 



little bags : seeds naked. 



ior. V. Stems trailing: leaves spear-egg-shaped; flowers on 



fruit- stalks. 



V 



Curt. 172~LuJtju. 7&-Knipb. l-Sheldr. Q2~Blaek<w. 5£~ 

 Dod. 405-Z**. ohs. 360. l~Ger. em. 8<H. l.-P*r*. 381. 

 1-.J. B. \L\$V-Matth.§&-Walc.-1 



Leaves blunter, smooth at the edge, 

 Cal. short. Linn. Flowering-stem upright in the spring, but 

 in autumn it bears flowers on the shoots of the year, which are 

 trailing. Mr. Woodward. Calyx shorter than the tube of the 

 blossom. Style inversely conical. Upper summit woolly. Leaf* 

 stalks short. BIoss. blue or white. 



Lesser Periwinkle. Woods and hedges, but rare. [Near 

 Hampstead. Earsham Wood, plentifully. Mr. Woodward* 

 *~ Rainsal brow, near Manchester, plentiful. Mr. Caley. I*] a 

 lane leading from the Larches to the Moseley road, near Bir- 

 mingham.] P. April, May.* 



xna'jon V. Stems upright : leaves egg-shaped : flowers on fruit- 



stalks. 



E. hot. 514-Curt. 222-Tourn. A'i-Wale.-Clus. I 121. 2- 

 Dod. 406.1-Io£. obi. 360. 2-Ger. em. 8<)4. 2~Park. 381. 

 2-7. B. XX. 1 32-Garid. 81. 



Leaves fringed with hairs at the edge. Calyx as long as the 

 tube of the blossom. Bloss. tube woolly within, just above the 

 anthers. Leaf-stalks long. Bloss. blue, with a blush of purple. 



Greater Periwinkle. Woods and hedges. [A grove in 



Thorpe, by Norwich. Mr. Woodward.— Isle of Wight, to the 

 South of Yarmouth, plentiful.] P- May. 



* The ripe sttd-vtssell have never been able to discover. CuaT.— The 



. fruit seldom comes to maturity, and Casalpin. seems the only one that has 



observed it in this state. It may, however, be easily obtained by planting 



the V. major in a pot, where the roots not having free room to exten 



themselves, the juices are more copiously propelled towards the p»W 



which then expands into well- formed seed- vessels. Tovrn. 





