302 PLANTS GROWING IN WASTE SOIL. 
HEDGE BIND-WEED. 
Convolvulus sepium. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Convolvulus. Pink, or white. Scentless. North Atlantic states. All summer. 
Flowers : terminal; solitary. Calyx : of five sepals surrounded by two leafy 
bracts. Corol/a : bell-shaped ; convolute or twisted in the bud. Stamens: five. 
Pistil: one. Leaves: alternate ; rather halbert-shaped; netted-veined. Stem: 
trailing. /wzce: milky. 
Mr. Burroughs says about this flower : “ Morning-glory is the 
best now. It always refreshes me tosee it.” “In the morning 
and cloudy weather,” says Gray, “ I associate it with the holi- 
est morning hours, It may preside over my morning walks and 
thoughts. There is a flower for every mood of the mind.” 
C. arvensis, or field bindweed, the European species, has made 
itself quite at home in our fields. Its calyx is without bracts. 
Near the coast it becomes a weed. 
The peculiarities of quamoclit coccinea, cypress-vine, are 
clearly represented in Plate CLIV. 
BOUNCING BET. FULLER’S HERB. SOAPWORT. 
(Plate CLV.) 
Saponarta officinalis. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Pink. White, or rose. Fragrant. Generad. Summer. 
Flowers: often one anda half inches broad; growing in corymbed clusters. 
Calyx: tubular; five-toothed. Cvrol/a: of five narrow petals, notched at the 
apex. Stamens; ten. éstil: one, with two curved styles. Leaves : opposite ; 
nearly sessile; lanceolate ; triple-ribbed. Stem : smooth, with swollen joints, 
Juice: mucilaginous. 
It was always a mystery to Dickens that a door nail should 
have been considered so much more dead than any other inani- 
mate object, and it seems also strange that this plant should 
have suggested the idea of bouncing more than other plants. 
Dear Bettie does not bounce, nor could she if she would. She 
sits most firmly on her stem, and her characteristics seem to be 
home-loving and simple. We are sure to find her peeping 
through the garden fences, or on the roadside, where the chil- 

