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one black seed in it. Every part of the leaves abounds with 

 a milky juice. Half an ounce of the juice, or a drachm of the 

 powder, is an acrid purge ; the leaves, applied externally, are 

 said to diminish dropsical swellings of the feet. According 

 to Hill, the whole plant should be gathered fresh when it is 

 about to flower, and ought to be boiled in ale, with some 

 nutmeg and a clove or two, and this decoction should be 

 administered in proportion to the person's strength : it is a 

 strong purge, and sometimes also operates by urine, without 

 any danger to the patient ; it is best adapted for robust con- 

 stitutions, but it will cure dropsies and rheumatism. Hill 

 declares, that he has known a gonorrhoea cured by it ; but the 

 , reader is strongly advised to place no reliance upon so pre- 

 carious a remedy ; his best method of proceeding is, to put 

 himself into the hands of a regular surgeon, immediately after 

 he discovers himself to be infected with that infamous dis- 

 ease, for there is no other way whereby he can so safely and 

 easily obtain a radical cure. The juice which oozes from 

 the stalk and roots of the Sea Bindweed may be saved ; it 

 hardens into a substance like Scammony, and is an excellent 

 purge. It is found on the sea-coasts of Frisia, Piedmont, 

 (.'arniola ; frequently upon the coasts of Norfolk, Essex, and 

 Kent ; also upon the north coast, and in Scotland, where it 

 is called Scottish Scurvy-grass, and improperly Sea Colewort. 

 As this plant grows naturally on the sea-beech, it cannot be 

 long preserved in a garden. 



62. Convolvulus Pes caprae; Thick-leaved Bindweed. Leaves 

 two-lobed ; peduncles one-flowered. Stem suffruticose, 

 procumbent, creeping, somewhat villose, red, long; leaves 

 blunt at both ends, often two-lobed, emarginate, thick, 

 tomentose ; flowers axillary, corolla purplish. Native of the 

 East Indies, China, Cochin-china, and the eastern coast of 

 Africa. Annual ; flowering in June and July. 



63. Convolvulus Brasiliensis.- Leaves emarginate, with two 

 glands at the base; peduncles three-flowered ; stems peren- 

 nial, trailing and spreading to a great distance; flowers 

 large, purple, produced by threes on very long peduncles. 

 Native of the West India islands, and of South America, 

 near the shore. Browne says, that it is common near the 

 sea in Jamaica; that the leaves are beautifully veined; that 

 the whole plant is milky ; and that the root is a strong pur- 

 gative, sometimes used with success in hydropic cases : he 

 calls it Purging Sea Bindweed. 



64. Convolvulus Sublobatus. Upper leaves tooth-repand 

 at the end ; stem procumbent ; flowers in a head ; involucre 

 six-leaved; corollalarge. Annual. Native of the East Indies. 



65. Convolvulus Littoralis. Leaves oblong, lobe-palmate; 

 peduncles one-flowered; stem creeping. Stems very long, 

 much branched, the thickness of a goose-quill ; leaves larger 

 than the palm 6f the hand, in the likeness of a duck's foot, 

 fleshy, and tender ; flowers large, and white. Native of 

 America, and the West Indies. 



*** New Species. 



66. Convolvulus Palmatus. Leaves palmate ; lobes seven, 

 sinuate-pointed ; peduncles one-flowered ; calices very large, 

 spreading ; stem twining. This rises with a strong winding 

 stalk to the height of twenty feet, dividinginto several smaller; 

 the flowers are large, purple, 01: long peduncles, and are suc- 

 ceeded by roundish seed-vessels, having three cells, in each 

 of which is lodged a single seed. Native of Vera Cruz in 

 New Spain. 



67. Convolvulus Aristolochifolius. Leaves hastate-lance- 

 olate, with rounded ears ; peduncles many-flowered ; stem 

 twining. This rises'with a slender twining stalk ten feet high; 

 the flowers are produced in small clusters on long pedun- 

 cles, they are yellow, and are succeeded by three-cornered 



seed-vessels. It is an annual plant. Native of Carthag-ena, 

 in New Spain. 



68. Convolvulus Glaber. Leaves ovate-oblong, smooth ; 

 peduncles one-flowered ; calices ten-parted; stem twining. 

 An annual plant, with twining stalks seven or eight feet high ; 

 the flowers come out at every joint, on long slender pedun- 

 cles, each supporting a large purple flower, with the calix 

 cut almost to the bottom in ten parts. It was imported from 

 the island of Barbuda. 



69. Convolvulus Multiflorus. Leaves cordate, smooth ; 

 peduncles many-flowered ; seed villose, ferruginous ; stem 

 twining. Stalks sleuder, twining, eight or ten feet high ; 

 peduncles rather long, with many purple flowers in bunches 

 growing upon each. Annual. Native of Jamaica. 



70. Convolvulus Hederaceus. Leaves triangular, acute ; 

 flowers many, sessile, spreading; calices acute, many -cleft; 

 stem twining. The flowers are blue. It is annual, and 

 native of Jamaica. 



71. Convolvulus Roseus. Leaves cordate, acuminate ; 

 peduncles two-flowered ; stem twining, seven or eight feet 

 high. Leaves on very long petioles, and flowers on long 

 peduncles ; seeds large, and covered with a fine down. This 

 plant is annual, and one of the most beautiful of the genus, 

 the flowers being very large, and of fine rose-colour. Native 

 of Jamaica. 



72. Convolvulus Betonicifolius. Leaves cordate-sagittate; 

 peduncles one-flowered ; stem twining. Stalk slender, five 

 or six feet high; corollas white, with purple bottoms. 

 Native of Africa. 



73. Convolvulus Tuguriorum. Leaves cordate-sagittate, 

 acute ; stem angular, twining ; peduncles four-cornered, one- 

 flowered. Native of New Zealand. 



74. Convolvulus Crelestis. Leaves cordate, extremely 

 acuminate, pubescent ; peduncles elongated, umbellate trifid ; 

 stem twining. Native of the island of Tanna, in the South 

 Seas. 



75. Convolvulus Mucronatus. Leaves palmate-pedate ; 

 lobes ciliate, mucronate ; peduncles one-flowered; stem 

 twining. Native of the island of Tanna, in the South Seas. 



76. Convolvulus Tridentatus. Leaves wedge-shaped, tliree- 

 cusped, dilated at the base, and toothed ; peduncles one- 

 flowered; stem twining. Annual; flowering in July and 

 August. -Native of the East Indies. 



77. Convolvulus Bufalinus. Stem shrubby, scandent ; 

 leaves cordate-sagittate, smooth; peduncles many-flowered: 

 antherse spiral; corolla bell-shaped. Native of the woods of 

 Cochin-china. 



78. Convolvulus Aggregatus. Leaves palmate, seven- 

 lobed, hairy; flowers aggregate. Stem twining, perennial, 

 round, extremely hairy, branched ; flowers white, large, axil- 

 lary; common peduncle long, solitary ; proper none; corolla 

 tubular, live-cleft ; segments acute, hairy, closed. Native 

 of Cochin-china. 



79. Convolvulus Hastatus. Leaves lanceolate, ha>-t: ' ; 

 peduncles axillary, in pairs, two-flowered ; stem twinini;-, 

 hairy. Native of Arabia. 



80. Convolvulus Lanatus. Leaves lanceolate, linear, to- 

 mentose, older branches spiny; flowers in iuvolucred heads. 

 Stem shrubby, erect, branched at bottom ; corolla boll- 

 shaped, hairy on the outside, of a pale rose-colour ; (ilamenta 

 unequal ; anthera: linear. Native of the lower Egypt, and 

 Mount Sinai. 



81. Convolvulus Hystrix. Shrubby: leaves obi 

 flowers sessile, subsolitary ; branches spincscent. This is a 

 riiriil shrub, very much branched, diffused, and a foot high; 

 the branchlets somewhat silky ; calycine leaflets hirsuti 



