CONVOLVULUS. 
specially hot stony places in the South, even as you see it in full sun 
and the stoniest slopes, on railway cuttings and rough banks of the 
Riviera. 
C. assyriacus, from elevations of 5000 feet in the clifis of Argaeus, 
Aslandagh, &c., in Anatolia, forms a dense cushion in the rocks, acutely 
beautiful with shaggy fur of brightest silver. On this sit the long 
rosy-pink trumpets of blossom, peppered almost stemless over the 
tuffet. 
C. cantabricus and C. Dorycnium are rosy-flowered species of 
South Europe, not tuffets, but attaining 6 inches in the first case, and 
10 inches in the second, 
C. Cneorum is 2 Spanish species, with which we do our best, and 
this in southerly cases is very good indeed ; the plant is of upstanding 
habit, attaining a foot or so, with large obovate leaves upstanding, 
too, and glistering with flat sheen of silver. The clustered flowers are 
fine and pink. 
C. cochlearis is yet another cushion after the style of C. assyriacus, 
hard and fast in the stony pine-woods of Parnassus, Amanus, Bery- 
tagh, &c., always rather rare and eminently beautiful—a dense silver 
mass made up of microscopic ovate-pointed leaves, from which, 
sitting almost tight to the mass, come solitary flowers of rich purple, 
rather shorter in the tube than those of C. assyriacus, and with the 
argent sheen of the foliage more closely ironed down. 
C. compactus may be seen in the dry sub-alpine regions at about 
5000 feet, on Cadmus of Pisidia, Aslandagh, &¢.—yet another cushion 
of silver-gleaming hoary leaves, very narrow indeed, and folded and 
pointed, with the glistering down smeared close and flat upon their 
surfaces ; and then the mass breaks out into the loveliest of pink cups, 
gathered in heads of from three to five, clustered stemless over the 
close delicious hassock. 
C. cyprius, from the lower chinks of Cyprus, is a miniature of 
little C. lineatus, with markedly narrow glistering foliage. 
C. incanus is our only American, but a gem of ray serene as any old- 
world species. It grows into a dense tuft of lovely narrow oval 
leafage of silver grey, on which appear big vases of blushing pearly 
white. 
C. lanuginosus is sub-shrubby, with a branching stem from 4 inches © 
to a foot in height, with leaves quite narrow, hairy and green, and less 
than an inch long. The blossoms are borne in dense heads at the ends 
of the branches (which are bare of foliage), and are pinkish or whitish 
and striped with purple, very hairy indeed outside, and enclosed in 
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