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BRITISH HERBAL, 
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GrOnN anor EV UTE OSS. 
"THE flower is large, and confifts of a fingle petal, fpread open, rarely indented, and often 
folded :. the feeds are numerous, and are contained in a fingle capfule: the cup is formed of a 
fingle leaf, divided into five parts ; and remains with the capfule when the flower is fallen. 
Linnzeus places this among the pentandria monogynia, there being five threads in every flower, 
a fingle rudiment of a fruit or capfule. 
DIV LS JOAN got. 
1. Great Bindweed. 
Convolvulus major. 
The root is long, white, flender, and creep- 
ing. 
orhe ftalks are numerous, round, flender, 
weak, and very long: they are fmooth, of a yel- 
lowifh colour; and tough, and will climb about 
bufhes till they reach ten or fifteen feet in 
height. 
The leaves ftand ‘irregularly, and have Jong 
footftalks: they are large, broad, cut off as it 
‘were behind at the ftalk, not going to tharp 
points, as in the leffer kind, and fharp at the 
end: they are thin, fmooth, undivided at the 
edges, and of a pale green. ; 
The flowers rife from the bofom of the leaves, 
and ftand fingly on long footftalks : they are very 
large and white. 
The feed-veffel is large, and the feeds are nu- 
merous. 
It is common in hedges, and flowers all fum- 
mer. ane 
C. Bauhine calls it Convolvulus major albus. 
Others, Convelvulus major. Our common people 
call it Bearbind. 
2. Common little Bindweed. 
Convolvulus minor vulgaris. 
The root is flender, and has many fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, green, weak, 
and almoft a foot long: the plant is not able to fup- 
port itfelf; but it does not climb among bufhes as 
the great Lindweed, but ftraggles upon the ground. 
The leaves ftand irregularly, and are nume- 
rous: they are broad, fhort, of a pale green, un- 
divided at the edges, pointed at the end, and 
running into two points alfo at the ftalk, in the 
manner of an arrow head. 
The flowers rife from the bofoms of the leaves : 
they ftand on footftalks ; and are large, and of a 
pale red, fometimes white. 
The feed follows in a large capfule. 
It is common by way-fides, and flowers in 
May, and during the reft of the fummer. 
C. Bauhine calls it Convoluulus minor arvenfis. 
Others, Convolvulus minor. 
This and the preceding both poffe(s the fame 
virtues: they are rough purges ; and, to thofe con- 
, ftitutions that can bear fuch medicines, are good 
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in dropfies, and other diforders from obftru€tions 
of the vifcera. The roots poffefs the principal 
virtue, and they are beft freth. The country 
method is to prefs out the juice, and give it with 
{trong beer. The root of the great bindweed is 
what they commonly ufe on this occafion. 
fingular, that hogs eat this root often in confi- 
derable quantity, without any manifeft effect, 
It may be ufeful in the country, where peoples 
conftitutions are rough, and milder medicines are 
not to be had; but it is not worth bringing into 
the fhops. 
3. Narrow-leaved Bindweed. 
' Convolvulus pufillus anguftifolius, 
and ° 
It ig 
The root is long and flender, and has a few - 
fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, weak, and 
fix inches long: they lie upon the ground, and 
their leaves grow principally on one fide. 
Thefe ftand fingly at fmall diftances, and are 
very narrow, and of a confiderable length : they 
hoop round the footftalks, which are fhort and 
flender, in the manner of the head of an arrow, 
but the heads are more rounded ; the edges are 
not at all indented, and they end in a fharp 
point. 
The flowers have long, flender footftalks, 
and commonly ftand oppofite to the leaves, tho? 
not fo numerous: they are fall, and of a pale © 
flefh colour. 
The capfule of the feed is alfo fmall. 
It is a native of our corn-fields, but not com- 
mon. It flowers in June. 
Plukenet calls it Convolvulus anguftifino folio 
noftras cum auriculis. 
4. Little Bindweed, with a deep divided flower, 
Convoluulus pufillus flore profunde [eéto. 
The root is long, flender, and brown: 
The ftalks are round, weak, numerous, and 
five or fix inches long. 
The leaves are numerous, fhort, broad, and 
of a pale green, 
The flowers are fmall, of a faint red colour; 
and are compofed of fingle petals as the others, 
but they are deeply divided into five parts. 
The feeds are contained in fhort capfules. 
It grows with us in barren places, Mr, Rand, 
Q. who 
