Chap. XY. CERES. 
CHA P. OX. . 
Convolvulus Ceruleus. 
Lew Binde weedis of two forts, a bigger and a leffer, the firtt 
y tifeth up. with many long winding branches; fet with large, 
, and fomething round leaves, pointed.at the ends, the howe 
3 y ctscome forth ar the joynts upon long foot-ftalks, which 
=. ‘being blown opem;-are like bells, with broad open mouths, 
ending in five corners, ofa fair blew colour; tending’ to purple; thefe 
flowers openin thenight, and-are to be {een in the morning. before 
theSun, for as foomas it thines upon chem, they are all gone and-ne- 
ver appear again ; after the flowers are paft , the husks contain round; 
black feeds; the'roots perith in Winter, ; 
_ There is of this kind another that hath cornered leaves like toy, 
the flowers of adeeper blewi; more reddifli in the five plaits and bot- 
tom, in all other things like the former. It rete  & 30 
_ The leffer Bind: weed hath fmaller and longet leaves than the firft, 
and a weak ftalk, rifing about.cwo foot high; the flowers come forth.ac, 
the joynts where the leaves ftand, like the other in fathion, but leffer,: 
and far more beautiful, being of a fair blew, colour with a white Star 
ia thebottom ; the feeds are like the former, but fmmaller, and the 
root dies with the firft approach of Winter, 
: 7h Spencer kinds flower late in September the lefler in Fune and 
Fuly; t 5, tp early raifed from feeds, the firft' requiring a hot 
bed, but theother is hardy and will come up and thrive without thac 
-. trouble; as for thered flowered Bind weed of America, we muft not, 
expec to fecit bear in England, and the Lavender leafed Bind-weed, 
isa weed indeed common in many fields in divers Exglifh Countries, 
We have another fort of Be/l- flowers raifed from feeds, called . 
Viola Mariana. 
, A Arians Violet, ox Canterbury Bells, the ficft year after che feeds 
+¥S are fowen,cometh up with many hairy leaves , fomething 
broad and long, {pread on the ground ; the year after che ftalk rifech 
ayard high, divided into many branches fet wich {maller leaves , aud 
a multitude of flowers ftamding in green husks , which are large, 
round, hollow Bells, {welling in the middle, with narrow necks, and 
ending in five corners, in fome of a white or filver colour,and in others 
of a pale or deep purple; the feed is fmall,contained in {quare husks, 
andthe whole Plant dies as foo as the feeds are ripe, fo that the 
kinds are continued , by fowing thefeeds in 4pri/, with other annu- 
als, and after removed where the Plants may ftand co bear flowers, 
Dd CHAP 
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