2i 4 FLOWERS OF THE ROADSIDES AND HEDGES 



exigua), Mottled Rustic (C. morpheiis\ Ebulea sambucalis, Bdellia 

 sommilentella, feed on it. 



Calystcgia is from the Greek kalos, beautiful, and stego, cover, 

 alluding to its habit of covering hedges, or the large bracts, &c. 

 Septum 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 



