, MINOR CONVOLVULUS. 



Coni'olvulns iii'nior. 



ONVOLVULUS MINOR— the 

 preferable name of this plant 

 — is also known as C. triculor, 

 an appropriate but indefinite 

 name. The prominent colours 

 of the flower are Ijlue upon the 

 limf), yellow in the centre, with 

 an iutermetliate ring of white. 

 The averao-e height (if the plant 

 is a foot to a foot and a half ; 

 the leaves are sjiatulate, fringed 

 with hairs; the whole plant is 

 downy, and of a full green 

 colour. 



This extremely beautiful 

 plant is a hardy annual, wliicli 

 may be yown in autumn or 

 spring. It requires a rich, 

 mellow soil and an open situa- 

 tion to develop its characteristics fully ; and, -when liberally 

 cultivated, it flowers for three months continuously, and a 

 large mass of it ])resents a most refreshing and exquisite 

 appearance in the early hours of the da}'. It may, in one 

 sense, be regarded as a suiijloirer, and there is some utility 



