PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Convolvulus. 55 



shaped ; dotted beneath. Stem trailing. Corolla 

 minutely notched. E. B. 529. C. fas. 1. 12. A. 

 mas. G. E. 617- 



Fields, gardens. 



An. Mai/. 



Stem much branched at the bottom, square, leafy. Ls. opposite, 

 stalkless, many ribbed. Fl. axillary, solitary, stalks longer than 

 the /*'. CaL Is. spear-shaped. Co7\ scarlet ; purple at the base. 

 Stam. purple. 



Called Poor-man's weather-glass, from the Jl. closing at the 

 approach of rain. Fl. before expansion in dose of gr. xx., four 

 times a day in epilepsy. Fl. sometimes white, Cowley Field. 

 Ls. sometimes in fours. Cor. represented as fringed in fig. E. B. 

 not correctly. Every part of tliis plant beautiful, ■ and worth 

 attention. If the Ji. open in the morning, a fair day may be 

 expected. Small birds fond of the seeds. Fl. opens at eight, 

 shuts in the afternoon. Fl. Suec. 



A. ccerulea. Blue Phnperneh Leaves egg-shaped, or 

 somewhat spear-shaped ; dotted beneath. Stem erect. 

 Corolla strongly notched. E. B. 1823. A. arvensis. 

 var. (3. Sb. p. 75. See Hensloiv in Loudon's Nat. 

 Mag. Nov. 1830. A. fcemina. G. E. 6I7. 



Cornfields, Charlbury. Middleton Stoney. Sb. * * Beyond 

 Cowley Marsh, under Bullingdon Green. Rev. TV. Kay, Lin- 

 coln Coll. In a Cornfield, S. W. of South Hinksey. B.w 



An. May. 



Ls. narrower than in An. arvensis. Cor. smaller, more deeply 

 notched, vivid blue. No difference but in the col. and margin 

 of the cor. H. 



A. tenella. Bog Pimpernel. Leaves roundish, some- 

 what pointed, stalked. Stem creeping. Stigma acute. 

 E. B. 530. C. fas. 3. 15. Nummularia minor, flora 

 purpurascente. G. E. 630. 



Wet, spongy, mossy hogs. Peat bogs on Bullingdon Green. Under 

 Headington Wick Copse. Sb. (Bagley Wood.) B.v. 



Per. June. 



Ls. opposite, small. Fl. erect, stalks very long, axillary, solitary, 

 rose-coloured, streaked, deeply divided, rather funnel-shaped. 

 Stam, jointed, woolly. An elegant plant. 



CONVO'LVULUS.' Bindweed. 



C. arvensis. Small Bindweed. Leaves arrow-shaped, 

 acute at each end. Stalks mostly single-flowered. 



' From the twining stem of many of its species. 



