302 PLANTS GROWING IN WASTE SOIL. 



HEDGE BIND-WEED. 



Convblvulus sepiutn. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Convolvulus. Pink., or white. Scentless. North Atlantic states. All summer. 



Flowers : terminal ; solitary. Calyx : of five sepals surrounded by two leafy 

 bracts. Corolla : bell-shaped ; convolute or twisted in the bud. Stamens : five. 

 Pistil : one. Leaves : alternate ; rather halbert-shaped ; netted-veined. Stem : 

 trailing. Juice : milky. 



Mr. Burroughs says about this flower : *' Morning-glory is the 

 best now. It always refreshes me to see it." ** In the morning 

 and cloudy weather," says Gray, " I associate it with the holi- 

 est morning hours. It may preside over my morning walks and 

 thoughts. There is a flower for every mood of the mind." 



C arvensis^or field bindweed, the European species, has made 

 itself quite at home in our fields. Its calyx is without bracts. 

 Near the coast it becomes a weed. 



The peculiarities of qudmoclit coccinea, cypress-vine, are 

 clearly represented in Plate CLIV. 



BOUNCING BET. FULLER'S HERB. SOAPWORT. 



{Plate CLV.) 

 Saponaria offichialis. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Pink. White, or rose. Fragrant. General. Summer. 



Flowers : often one and a half inches broad ; growing in corymbed clusters. 

 Calyx : tubular ; five-toothed. Corolla : of five narrow petals, notched at the 

 apex. Stamens : ten. Pistil : one, with two curved styles. Leaves : opposite ; 

 nearly sessile ; lanceolate ; triple-ribbed. Stem : smooth, with swollen joints. 

 Juice: mucilaginous. 



It was always a mystery to Dickens that a door nail should 

 have been considered so much more dead than any other inani- 

 mate object, and it seems also strange that this plant should 

 have suggested the idea of bouncing more than other plants. 

 Dear Bettie does not bounce, nor could she if she would. She 

 sits most firmly on her stem, and her characteristics seem to be 

 home-loving and simple. We are sure to find her peeping 

 through the garden fences, or on the roadside, where the chil- 



