214 FLOWERS OF THE ROADSIDES AND HEDGES 
extgua), Mottled Rustic (C. morpheus), Ebulea sambucalis, Bdelha 
somnulentella, feed on it. 
Calystegia is from the Greek alos, beautiful, and stego, cover, 
alluding to its habit of covering hedges, or the large bracts, &c. 
Sepium is Latin for, of hedges. 
The names by which Great Bindweed is known are numerous, e.g. 
Bearbind, Bedwind, Bell-bind, Bell-binder, Bell-bine, Bellwine, Bell 
Woodbind, Hedge Bells, Beswinor, Beswind, Bethwine, Common 
Bind, Bindweed, Great Bindweed, Bineweed, Great Bines, Con- 
volvulus, Cornbind, Corn Lily, Creeper, Devil’s Garter, Devil’s Guts, 
Ground Ivy, Hellweed, Honey Suckle, Jack-run-in-country, Lady’s 
Smock, Harvest, Hedge, White Lily, Lily-bind, Lily-flower, Milk 
Maid, Night-caps, Grandmother's, Lady’s, and Old Man's Nightcap, 
Robin-in-the-hedge, White Smock, Wave Wine, Way Wind, Weather 
Wind, Weedbine, Wither Wine, With Wind, Withy Wind. It was 
called Devil's Guts because of the long creeping roots that every 
gardener knows. 
The name Hedge Lily is thus whimsically explained by Turner: 
“There is a flower not unlyke unto a lylye in the herbe which is 
called convolvulus, it groweth among shrubbes and busshes and hath 
no savour, nether any little Chyves lyke saffrone as a lyly hath, only 
representing a lily in whytenes, and it is as it were an imperfect worke 
of nature learninge to make lilies”. When expanded it was regarded 
as a sign of fine weather. It was called Devil's Garter because 
of its supposed association with the evil one. It is purgative in 
principle. 
EssENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS :— 
220. Calystegia sepium, Br.—Stem climbing, leaves sagittate, with 
blunt lobes, flower-stalks square-flowered, flowers white, campanulate, 
axillary, with two large bracts, enveloping the calyx. 
Red Bartsia (Bartsia Odontites, Huds.) 
This ericetal plant has been found in the Clyde Beds at Garvel 
Park, of Late Glacial age. Its present distribution is the N. Temperate 
Zone of Europe, N. Asia, N. Africa, and the Himalayas. It is found 
in all parts of Great Britain except the Shetlands, as far north as the 
Orkneys, ascending to 1200 ft. in the Highlands. It is native in 
Ireland as well as the Channel Islands. 
Red Bartsia is found in fields and waste places over a wide area. 
It is a common roadside plant growing with Tufted Vetch, Yellow 
