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species, with a pale rose-coloured corolla, with five stripes of 

 a deeper red. Native of the Levant, county of Nice, &c. 

 Neither this, nor the variety of this species, often produces 

 seeds in England, but, creeping at the roots, are propagated 

 by offsets or shoots taken from the old plants. The best 

 time for parting and transplanting this sort is about the 

 beginning of May, when it may be taken out of the green- 

 house, and exposed to the open air ; but the young plants 

 should be placed under a frame, and shaded from the sun 

 till they have taken new root ; they may then be gradually 

 hardened to the open air during the summer, but in autumn 

 they must be placed in the green-house, and treated in the 

 same manner as the sixth species. 



33. Convolvulus Cairicus ; jagged-leaved Bindweed. Leaves 

 palmate, smooth, serrulate; stipules leaf-shaped, palmate ; 

 axils tomentose ; calices panicled, even. The whole plant 

 is smooth, except the axils, which are closely hairy. The 

 corolla is bell-shaped ; the stigma capitate. It flowers in 

 June and July ; and is a native of Egypt. 



34. Convolvulus Copticus. Leaves pedate, serrate ; pe- 

 duncles ensiform, two-flowered ; calices muricate. Stem her- 

 baceous, angular, smooth, and even; corolla white, acute ; 

 stigma blood-red. Native of the Levant. 



35. Convolvulus Vitifolius; Vine-leaved Bindweed. Leaves 

 palmate, five-lobed, smooth-toothed ; stem hairy ; peduncles 

 many-flowered ; racemes two-parted; calices villose. Native 

 of the East Indies. 



36. Convolvulus Dissectus. Leaves palmate, seven-parted, 

 tooth-sinuate, smooth ; stem hairy; peduncles one-flowered,- 

 calix smooth. Native of America. 



37. Convolvulus Macrocarpus ; Long-fruited Bindweed. 

 Leaves palmate-pedate, five-parted ; peduncles one-flowered. 

 -"Native of South America. 



38. Convolvulus Paniculatus; Panicled Bindweed, Leaves 

 palmate ; lobes seven, ovate, acute, quite entire ; peduncles 

 panicled. It varies with three or five leaved lobes. Found 

 in the sands of Malabar. 



39. Convolvulus Macrorhizos. Leaves digitate in sevens, 

 quite entire ; stem smooth ; peduncles three-flowered. Na- 

 tive of America. 



10. Convolvulus Quinquefolius ; Smooth Five-leaved Bind- 

 weed. Leaves digitate, smooth ; toothed ; peduncles even. 

 Stem herbaceous, twining, filiform, round, hirsute ; corolla 

 bell-shaped, white ; tube narrower at the base, swelling in 

 the middle; border five-cornered, plaited, spreading. Native 

 of Jamaica. 



41. Convolvulus Pentaphyllus ; Hairy Five-leaved Bind- 

 weed. Leaves digitate in fives, hairy, quite entire ; stem 

 hairy ; leaflets quite entire, pedicelled ; peduncles long, 

 branching ; flower white ; two large bractes include the 

 calix ; two obtuse stigmas ; capsules obtuse ; annual. Native 

 of the West Indies ; flowering in August and September. 



42. Convolvulus Martinicensis. Leaves elliptic ; stem 

 creeping, somewhat twining. Stems round, smooth, prostrate, 

 long, rooting, twining a little ; leaves elliptic, blunt with a 

 point, quite entire, smooth, petioled, two inches long ; the 

 three outer calycine leaflets ovate, acute, very large and loose, 

 the two inner much smaller, lanceolate, acute ; corolla white. 

 Native of Martinico. 



** Stem not twining. 



43. Convolvulus Spinosus ; Prickly Bindweed. Shrubby, 

 erect : leaves lanceolate, silky; flower-bearing branchlets 

 thorny. Stem subflexuose, scarcely twining, the whole white, 

 with very short shining hairs ; leaves oblong or lanceolate, 

 sessile ; stems branching at top, the branches horizontal, 

 rigid, terminated by one erect, small, whitish flower. Ob- 



served by Professor Pallas on the sandy hills near the river 

 Irtis in Siberia. 



44. Convolvulus Siculus; Small-fiowered Bindweed. Leaves 

 cordate-ovate ; peduncles one-flowered ; bractes lanceolate ; 

 flowers sessile. This is an annual plant, rising about two 

 feet, with slender, twining stalks. The flowers are small, of 

 a bluish colour, and- have little beauty. It flowers in June ; 

 and is a native of the south of Europe. It will flourish in 

 the open air of England. If it be permitted to scatter its 

 seeds, the plants will rise in the spring, and require no other 

 culture but to keep them clean from weeds ; or if the seeds 

 be sown in the spring where the plants are to remain, they 

 will flower in June, and the seeds will ripen in August. 



45. Convolvulus Pentapetaloides ; Five-petalled Bindweed. 

 Leaves lanceolate, obtuse, naked, marked with lines ; branches 

 declining ; flowers solitary, half five-cleft, axillary, on short 

 peduncles ; corolla blue with a yellow throat, the border 

 almost five-parted, with acuminate divisions. In- a poor soil 

 it varies with simple filiform stems, a finger's length, and 

 somewhat hairy towards the top. A hardy annual, and a 

 native of Majorca. 



46. Convolvulus Lineatus ; Dwarf Bindweed. Leaves lance- 

 olate, silky, marked with lines, petiolate ; peduncles two- 

 flowered ; calices silky, somewhat leafy. Stem four to six 

 inches high, prostrate, flexuose ; leaves remote, narrower 

 at the base, acute; corollas very hairy on the outside. The 

 flowers are produced on the side and at the top of the stalks, 

 in small clusters, sitting close together ; they are of a deep 

 rose-colour. The root is perennial, and creeping. Native 

 of the coasts of France, Spain, Nice, and Sicily. Although 

 it will bear the open air of our climate, it seldom produces 

 seed in England, but the roots propagate in plenty. It pre- 

 fers a slight dry soil, and requires no other care but to keep 

 the plants clean from weeds : it may be transplanted either 

 in spring or autumn. 



47. Convolvulus Cneorum; Silvery -leaved Bindweed. 

 Leaves lanceolate, tomentose ; flowers umbelled ; calices 

 hirsute ; stem erect. Stems shrubby, upright, about three 

 feet high ; leaves lanceolate, blunt, silky, placed closely on 

 every side of the stem ; they are near two inches long, and a 

 quarter of an inch broad. The flowers are produced in 

 clusters at the top of the stem, sitting very close ; they are 

 of a pale rose-colour, and come out in June and July, but do 

 not perfect seeds in England. Native of Spain, Italy, Sicily, 

 and the Levant. If planted in a light soil and a warm situa- 

 tion, it will live in the open air in mild winters, but in severe 

 winters it is destroyed : some of the plants therefore should 

 be kept in pots, and sheltered under a common frame in win- 

 ter, where they may enjoy the free air in mild weather, and 

 yet be protected from frost: in summer they may be pl;ir<-d 

 abroad with other hardy exotic plants, where the fine silky 

 leaves will make a pretty appearance. It may also be propa- 

 gated by laying down the branches and by cuttings : but they 

 rarely put out roots the same year, and many of them will 

 fafl ; so that the best way is to procure seeds from Italy, as 

 those plants which come from seeds grow much larger than 

 those which are propagated by other means. 



43. Convolvulus Cantabrica ; Flax-leaved Bin<: 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, hairy ; lower peduncles 

 longer than the leaves, bearing about two flowers ; calirr- 

 oblong-hinceolate, hirsute. Root perennial, of the thickness 

 of a quill, and a dirty brown colour, running deep into tin 1 

 ground ; stems several, annual, hirsute, round, half a foot 

 high or more, slender ; corolla flesh-coloured, or pale rose- 

 coloured, with five broad red lines which are hairy on the 

 outside. It varies much in size, but may be known by it* 



