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Section I.— EU-CONVOLVULUS. (Convolvulus, B. Br.) 



Bractcoles small, distant from the base of the calyx. Capsule 

 2-celled. 



SPECIES I.-CONVOLVULUS ARVENSIS. Linn. 



Plate DCCCCXXIII. 



Erich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. MCCCXXXVII. Fig. 3. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1533. 



Rootstock creeping. Stem twining or trailing, twisted upon 

 itself. Leaves thin, stalked, ovate- or oblong- or stiapshaped-trian- 

 gular, sagittate-hastate or hastate at the base, obtuse, apiculate, 

 entire or rcpand. Peduncles axillary, solitary, with 2 small strap- 

 shaped bractcoles beyond the middle, 1-flowered or with several 

 flowers in a cyme, in which case each pedicel except the primary 

 one has 2 small bracteoles beyond the middle. Sepals without 

 bracteoles at the base, free nearly to the base, broadly oval, obtuse 

 or truncate, very unequal. Corolla five or six times as long as 

 the calyx. 



In fields and cultivated ground, hedge-banks, road-sides, and 

 w r aste places. Very common in England ; local in Scotland, ex- 

 tending North to Aberdeen, Moray, Stirling, and Renfrew : said to 

 have been found in Orkney, but I have never seen it there, nor 

 heard of its recent occurrence. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



Rootstock descending deeply into the ground. Stems numerous, 

 somewhat tufted, slightly branched, varying in length, sometimes 

 2 or 3 feet high when climbing, but they are more usually merely 

 trailing. Leaves 1 to 2| inches long, varying very much in breadth, 

 and in the direction of the basal lobes. Peduncles longer than 

 the leaves, usually 1- or 2- (more rarely 3- to 6-) flowered. Corolla 

 1 to 1\ inch across, pink or nearly white, with triangular reddish 

 stripes on the back, often with a reddish ring within near the 

 base, which is yellowish. Bracteoles lanceolate-strapshaped, minute. 

 Fruitiug-pcdicels recurved. Capsule globular, acuminate, about the 

 size of a large pea, glabrous. Seeds large, usually 4, subtrigonous, 

 deep reddish-brown, roughened with minute points. Plant glabrous, 

 or often with the peduncles and sometimes the leaves pubescent. 

 Small Bindweed. 

 French, Liseron des Champs. German, Acker Winde. 



This pretty little creeping plant is well known to all lovers of wild flowers. It 

 has a pleasant bweet scent, and entwines itself rouiul the stem of every tree or shrulj 



