FAMILIAR 



WILD FLOWERS. 



THE BINDWEED. 



Calystegia septum. Nat. Ord., 

 Convolvulacece. 



E have already given some de- 

 tails of the growth, &c., of the 

 field convolvulus, or small bind- 

 weed, the subject of a former 

 illustration. In the present 

 plate we have represented the 

 second common species of con- 

 volvulus, or bindweed. There 

 is a third species, the sea con- 

 volvulus the Calystegia Solda- 

 nella of the botanist that is 

 not at all rare on sandy shores. 

 It has large rose-coloured 

 flowers. It is, however, 

 though common, naturally not so 

 well known to most persons as 

 a flower like that on the present 

 plate, which is found in almost every 

 copse and hedge, and on almost 

 every piece of waste ground throughout the country. The 

 bindweed is abundant throughout England and Ireland, but 

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