MAJOE 

 CONVOLVULUS. 



Convolvulus major. 



HIS sweet old favourite is best 

 known to botanists as Phar- 

 bitis hispida or Ipomoea pur- 

 purea ; but the garden name 

 of Morning Gloiy might be 

 sufficient for present purposes, 

 for it is universally understood. 

 The plant was known to Par- 

 kinson, who, in 1656, described 

 it as the " greater blew Bind- 

 weede, or Bell-flower with 

 round leaves." Linnaeus named 

 it Convolvulus purpureas , un- 

 der which na,me it was figured 

 and described in the Botanical 

 Magazine, 1790, tab. 113. In 

 Miller's " Gardeners' Diction- 

 ary " it is described as " an 

 annual plant, whicb grows 

 naturally in Asia and America, 

 but has been long cultivated 

 in English gardens by the title of Convolvulus major. Of 

 this there are three or four lasting varieties ; the most com- 

 mon hath a purple flower, but there is one with a white, 



