L. APOCYNA CEE! VI/NCA, 657 
Leaves simple, opposite, exstipulate, evergreen; entire, shining. Flowers 
axillary. — Trailing, suffruticose, evergreen shrubs ; natives of Europe. 
Genus I. 
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VYNCA L. Tue Periwinkie. Lin. Syst. Pentandria Monogynia. 
Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 295. ; Juss., 144. ; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 95. 
Synonymes. Pervinea Tourn. t. 45.; la Pervenche, Fr.; Sunngriin, Ger.; Vinca, or Fior da 
Morto, Ital. 
Derivation. In Don’s Miller, this word is said to be derived from vénco, to conquer ; because the 
species subdue other plants by their creeping roots, or bind them by their runners: but a much 
better origin seems to be from vinculum, a band, on account of the suitableness of the shoots for 
the purpose of making bands. 
Gen. Char., $c. Calyx 5-cleft. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube longer than the 
calyx ; throat bearded ; segments of the limb flat, oblique, truncate at the 
apex. Stamens 5, inserted in the throat, enclosed. Anthers ending each 
in a hairy membrane at the apex, which connive over the stigma, Stigma 
bearded, seated on a flat orbicular disk, which is grooved round the cir- 
cumference. Glands 2, alternating with the ovaries, glabrous, as well as 
they. follicles 2, erect, terete, narrow, dehiscing lengthwise, few-seeded. 
Seeds cylindrical, naked. Albumen fleshy. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves as in the Order. Flowers axillary, solitary, alternate, pedunculate ; 
blue, purple, or white. — Shrubs, evergreen, suffruticose, creeping or trail- 
ing; natives of Europe ; of the easiest culture; and readily propagated by 
division, layers, or cuttings : valuable in pleasure-grounds, as thriving under 
the dense shade of trees and shrubs. 
e, 1. V. ma‘jor L. The greater Periwinkle. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., p. 304. ; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 95.; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 
Synonymes. Vinca média Delile ; Pervinca major Scop. Carn. No. 274. 2 
ngravings. Eng. Bot., t. 514.; Baxt. Brit. Fl. Pl., vol. 2. t. 158.; and our figs. 1278. and 1279. 
Spec. Char., §&c. Stamens erectish. Leaves ovate, acute, ciliated. Calycine 
teeth linear-subulate, ciliated, usually with a small tooth on each side at 
the base. Segments of coroila broad, obovate. 
This species is larger in all its 
parts than the following sort. 
Flowering stems erect; barren 
ones trailing, (Don’s Mill.) A 
low, trailing or creeping, suf- 
fruticose evergreen. Middle 
and South of Europe, and 
apparently wild in some parts 
of Britain. Height 2 ft., form- 
ing a dense, dark green, low, 
= — trailing bush, growing freely 
i JIS >. under the shade of other trees, ~ 
1278. V. major. and producing its fine blue 1279. 7% major. 
flowers from March to Sept. 
Variety. . F F 
2, V. m. 2 variegdta Hort.—Leaves variegated with white and yellow. 
om 
2, 2. V. ui‘nor L. The less Periwinkle. 
ificati in .; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 95.3 Todd. Cat., ed. 1836. 
emigre | ete ig No 273., Pervinca vulgaris Park. Theatr. 31). f. 1.3 
é j shnéides Dodon. Pempt. 40). 
Saereenee EAB. Bot., t. 917. 3 Hayne Abbild, t. 26. ;- and our fig. 1280. , 
Spee, Char., §¢. Stems procumbent. Leaves elliptic lanceolate, glabrous, 
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