945 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
or round other plants, twisted, a little hai Leaves an be to an inch and a 
rine ! 2 somewhat emarginate 
—all of them with a minute cusp at the end of the midrib ; ; petioles “halt an inch to an inch 
long. Peduneles axillary, 1~ 213 — long, with 2 minute bracts half an inch to an inch 
below the flower. Corolla pale. red or reddish-white. 
Cultivated lots : introduced. Nat of ae and Asia, Fl. June-July. Fr. Aug. 
me porti 
care and may give the teem soit rouble, if they do not guard 
We i age i 
n 
farmer milar condition annexed to the preservation of his 
ises from the feroad of Le nicious weeds. The following remarks, 
m the Flora Londinensis, will afford some idea of the character of 
~ Convolvalus, as ober vad i in England,—and may serve as a a salutary 
ow Beautiful as this plant ap to the eye, experience proves 
have a most pernicio ce nein joemrandy ene field of the ems 
enly farmer bears cpident testimony | * om. ie eand gery pene 
exempt from its — followi show 
yulus, I planted. feava feet of a bank in m den, which _ a 
four feet in height, with some roots of it: it was early in the 
Fic. 160. Bindweed (Convolvaius arvensis.) 
