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and are formed as it were of three fmaller joined 
together, 
The {talks are numerous, flender, and branched. 
They. are too weak to fupport themfelves with- 
out help, but will climb to the height of ten feet. 
The leaves ftand irregularly, and are of the 
fame form with thofe from the root: they have 
three points, or are formed of three parts, and 
are of a pale green. 
The flowers ftand on long footftalks, and are 
large, and of a beautiful blue; they are divided 
into five pointed feements at the edge. 
The feed-veffel js large, and the feeds are 
blackith. 
It is a native of the Eaft, and Aowers in July 
and Auguft. The flowers open principally in an 
evening, and fade when the fun has power. 
C. Bauhine calls it Convoloulus cerulens hede- 
receo, angulofo folio. 
10, Feather-leaved Bindweed. 
Convelvulus foliis pennatis. 
The root is finall, divided into two or three 
parts, and furnifhed with long, f{preading fibres. 
The firft leaves are numerous, and extreamly 
beautiful: they fland on long, purplith foot- 
ftalks, and are large, of a fine deep green, 
and compofed of ten or twelve pairs of long feg- 
ments, extreamly narrow, and placed nearly op- 
pofite to one another, with an odd one, ufually 
forked, at the end; together with thefe, there 
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rife a couple of broad, plain, hard leaves from 
the feed, which remain a long time; and fome- 
times the ftalk rifes immediately between thefe, 
without any other radical leaves. 
The ftalks are flender, tough, and weak : they 
climb on any thing to the height of feveral feet : 
the leaves fland irregularly on them, and have 
long, tender footftalks: they in all things re- 
femble thofe ‘from the root; and are extreamly 
beautiful. 2 
The flowers are large, and of a very bright 
red: they grow in little clufters, and are di- 
vided into five fegments at the edge: they have 
fomething of the afpeét of the flowers of jeflamy, 
and have thence given, among fome writers, a 
name to the plant. 
The feeds are contained in fhort capfules, one 
after every flower, 
. Itis a native of the Eaft Indies, and of fome 
parts of South America. 
Columna calls it Convolvulus Pennatus exoticus 
rarior, _ C. Bauhine, Sofminum millifolii folio. 
Many call it quameclit, an Indian name. Lin- 
nus feparates this and fome others fiom the reft 
of the dindweeds, under the name of Lpomea, 
but with fo little foundation in Nature, that when 
he has given the characters, he adds, < thefe 
plants are really fpecies of Convolvulus.” Why 
therefore did he permit the other nominal genus 
toremain? He has alfo feparated thefe, under 
the name of ipomea, in his Species Plantarum, his 
Jaft publifhed work. 
Ups HI. 
GENTIAN. 
GENTIAN 4, 
rudiment of the fruit, though fi 
the body of the rudiment, rathe 
nature. This would then have been placed amon 
and giving the firft notice of the 
origin. } 
This author includes {mall centaury in this genus : 
though the flowers are nearly the fame. 
Det Vales le OnN. 31. 
1. Marth-gentian. 
Gentiana paluftris anguftifolia. 
The root confifts of feveral thick, long fibres, 
with other fmaller ones growing tothem. The 
large fibres are yellow, tough, and of a bitter 
taftes fometimes they grow to a fmall head, 
fometimes they are only joined at the top to one 
another, . 
The ftalk is flender, firm, 
altogether ftrait, 
joint. 
The leaves are long, narrow, 
green: they grow two at a j 
3 
f upright, but not 
frequently bowing from joint to 
and of a dufky 
oint oppofite to 
which is of a tubular fhape, 
formed of a fingle leaf divided in 
BRST Tel soy 
_and divided into fegments at 
to five parts: the feeds are 
but they differ fufficiently in many refpedts, 
SPE C.LE-s. 
one another, and have’ no foot! : 
undivided at the edge, and harass as 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks 
and are very large and beautiful : they are long, 
hollow, irregularly divided into five fegments at 
the edge, and of a very deep blue. 
The feed- vere] is long and flender, and the 
feeds aré fmall. 
It is found in man 
bogey Stound, and flo 
C. Bauhine calls it 
ia. Others call it Py 
lith, Marfb-gentian, 
laft is an antiquated a; 
Y parts of England on 
Wwers in Auguft, 
Gentiana Daluftris anguftifo- 
eumonanthe, We, in Eng- 
or Calathian violer. This 
ind improper name. 
2. Woolly- 
