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straight stem alittle inclined, its villose white leaves and calix, 

 and pale purple flowers rolled in a spiral form. It delights in 

 warm rocky situations. Native of the south of Europe. It 

 is propagated from seeds, which must be obtained from the 

 countries where it naturally grows. They should be sown 

 upon a warm dry border, where they are intended to remain ; 

 for as the plants run down with long tap-roots, they will not. 

 Jiear transplanting, for this has often been tried without any 

 success. When the plants come up they should be thinned 

 where they grow too close, and afterwards constantly kept 

 clean from weeds ; which is all the culture it will require. It 

 flowers in July and August, and the stalks decay in autumn ; 

 but the roots will last several years, and, if they be in a dry 

 soil and a warm situation, will endure the winter very well 

 without covering. 



49. Convolvulus Dorycnium. Leaves sublinear, silky ; 

 stem shrubby, panicled; calices almost naked, obtuse. Root 

 perennial ; stems a foot and a half high ; leaves alternate, ses- 

 sile, narrow -, flowers generally solitary, sessile in the forks of 

 the branches, or at their summit; calices very small; corollas 

 campanulate, open, villose on the outside. Native of the 

 Levant. 



50. Convolvulus Scoparius ; Broom Bindweed. Leaves 

 linear, somewhat hairy ; peduncles bearing about three 

 flowers; calices silky, ovate, acute; stem shrubby; branches 

 mind-like. Root perennial, sending up several erect branch- 

 ing stalks about two feet high; the flowers come out singly 

 on the side of the stalks, sessile, of a pale bluish colour, and 

 spreading open almost to the bottom. It has the appearance 

 of liroom : stem round, very smooth ; corolla white, hairy on 

 the outside : the wood is white and hard, with radiating 

 streaks; when scraped it has the smell of roses, together with 

 a slight acrid taste. This, and the 52d species, produce the 

 true rose-wood of the shops. Masson found it about Santa 

 Cruz ; and I, Jr. Miller says it grows in Candia, and several 

 islands of the Archipelago. Native of the Canary Islands. 

 It may be propagated and treated in the same manner as the 

 forty-eighth species; which see. It requires a dry soil and 

 warm situation, to enable it to survive an English winter in 

 the open air : if the surface of the ground about the roots be 

 covered with some old tanner's bark, it will preserve them in 

 the hardest frosts. 



51. Convolvulus Oenotheroides. Shrubby, erect : leaves 

 linear, becoming hoary; peduncles axillary, solitary, erect, 

 one-flowered, bracted ; calices lanceolate, smooth. Stems 

 woody, round, reddish, somewhat glaucous ; leaves narrow, 

 the length of the finger, lax, flat ; peduncles at the top of the 

 stem, short, angular ; bractes in pairs, recurved, subulate ; 

 corolla funnel-shaped, large, tawny-coloured. Found by 

 Np.innann at the Cape of Good Hope. 



52. Convolvulus Floridus ; Many-flowered Bindweed. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, drawn to a point at the base, some- 

 what hairy ; flowering-branches and peduncles panicled. 

 Stems woody, procumbent; branches erect, stiff, hoary; leaves 

 petiolate, linear, entire, waved, veined, smooth ; flowers very 

 numerous, small ; leaflets of the calix ovate, concave, acute; 

 corollas pale red, or white, hirsute on the outside. Native 

 nt the Canary Islands; it flowers in August and September. 



53. Convolvulus Corymbosus; Tufted Bindweed. Leaves 

 cordate ; peduncles umbellate ; stem creeping. Native of 

 AiM-.M-ica, and New Caledonia. 



4. Convolvulus Spithameeus. Leaves cordate, pubescent ; 

 stem straight; peduncles one-flowered. Native of Virginia. 

 55. Convolvulus Persicus. Leaves oval, tomentose; pedun- 

 cles one-flowered; corolla white. Native of Persia, on the 

 shores of the Caspian Sea. 



56. Convolvulus Tricolor ; Trailing Bindweed. Leaves 

 lanceolate-ovate, smooth ; stem declining ; flowers solitary. 

 It is an annual plant, with several thick herbaceous stalks 

 about two feet long, not twining, but bending towards the 

 ground, upon which many of the lower branches lie pros- 

 trate ; leaves aessile. The peduncles come out just above the 

 leaves, at the same joint, and on the same side ; they are about 

 two inches long, each sustaining one large open bell-shaped 

 flower, of a fine blue colour, with a white bottom, varying to 

 pure white, and sometimes beautifully variegated with both 

 colours ; the white flowers are succeeded by white seeds, but 

 in the blue ones they are dark-coloured. Native of Barbary, 

 Spain, and Sicily. It has long been considered as an orna- 

 mental plant in the borders of our flower-gardens, under the 

 name of Convolvulus Minor. It is propagated by seeds, 

 which should be sown on the borders of the flower-garden, 

 where they are intended to remain : the usual method is to 

 put two or three seeds in each place where they are intended 

 to flower, covering them half an inch with earth ; and when 

 the plants come up, if the seeds all grow, there should be 

 but two left in each place, which will be sufficient, the 

 others should be drawn out carefully, so as not to disturb 

 the roots of those which are left, after which they will 

 require no care except weeding. If the seeds be sown in 

 autumn, the plants will flower in May ; but those which are 

 sown in the spring, will not flower till the middle of June, 

 and will continue flowering until the frosts set in. The 

 seeds ripen in August and September. The plants which 

 bear variegated flowers have frequently plain flowers of both 

 colours intermixed with them, which should be pulled off as 

 soon as they appear, in order to continue the variegated or 

 striped flowers. 



57. Convolvulus Repens ; Water Bindweed. Leaves sagit- 

 tate, obtuse behind, stem creeping ; peduncles one or two 

 flowered. Root perennial ; stems strong, smooth, angular, 

 compressed, extending wide, and putting out roots at the 

 joints ; flowers large, sulphur-coloured, on long peduncles 

 from the side of the stalks, each supporting one flower, with 

 a large swelling calix ; flowers rather large, whitish Native 

 of the sandy coasts of Jamaica. 



58. Convolvulus Reptans ; Creeping Bindweed. Leaves 

 hastate-lanceolate ; ears rounded ; stem creeping ; peduncles 

 one-flowered ; corolla pale purple. Native of the East 

 Indies, China, and Cochin-china, where jt is a common 

 aot-herb. 



59. Convolvulus Edulis ; Eatable Bindweed. Leaves cor- 

 date, entire, and three-lobed, smooth ; stem creeping angu- 

 lar. This differs from the fifteenth species, in having the 

 leaves heart-shaped, entire, three and five lobed. not narrowed 

 n the middle, so as to become sagittate. The roots are often 



as big as the fist, tubercled, fleshy like the Batatas, esculent, 

 very soft and sapid : it flowers very seldom. Brought from 

 Japan, where it is not known far from the coast. 



6'O. Convolvulus Hirtus ; Hairy Bindweed. Leaves cor- 

 date and subhastate, villose ; stem and petioles hairy; pedun- 

 cles many-flowered. Annual, rising with slender, stiff, twin- 



ng stalks, eight or nine feet high ; flowers many together, 

 at the end of strong peduncles ; corolla purple. Found by 

 Osbeck in the East Indies. 



61. Convolvulus Soldanella ; Sea Bindweed. Leaves kid- 

 ney-shaped ; peduncles one-flowered. Roots small, white, 

 stringy, sending out several weak trailing branches ; leaves 



;he size of the lesser Celandine, alternate, on long petioles. 

 The flowers are produced on the side of the branches at each 



oint ; they are of a reddish purple colour, appear in July, 

 and are succeeded by round capsules, having three cells, with 



