al _ .1 •'_ 



purposes it is restricted to \er\ few localities. There are 



id figures of this plant. One of the best is that given in the 



u.-ister,'* 1S41, t. 43, with :i description by Dr. Lindley. 



I'lii- \v,-i> from a plant urown ni uing sent by 



Mr I'.arkcr Webb. 



flu-re is a single specimen of the root of Convolvulus scoparius in 

 in K. w MiiM'iim. It is about eight inches long, two and a 1 

 vide and one inch thick. The 1 eartwood occupies •diour tliree-fourths 

 if the entire diameter of the specimen, and is of a distinct o 



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rery fine medullary ravs, the spaces between :■ 



Is. The sap wood is very mad 



•olour, rmd i- comparatively soft and easily cut. It was sent to the 



Museum hv P. Barker Webb about l«o(). and >rill retains its rose-like 

 miell A sample lalielled Oil of Rho Sunn is also in the Kcw Museum, 

 where it has been at leas; 3o years and probably longer. Sir William 



- - 

 In Lindlev's Flora Mcdira (1838), p. 400, there is the following note 

 on this plant :- 



)d perfumed, smelling strongly of roses, yell 



owish fawn colour 



p-ith red, burning rendily when lighted. 'Ta 



ste bitter, balsamic. 









P roses." 





utrius in Edward's 



al Rrrpster (1841), t. 43, Dr. Lindlev states 





ill events this is the plant that yields" Liipun 





■strondv of roses, yielding by distillation a 



bitter oil, and em- 



>v perfumers for adulterating or altering oil o 



f roses. The roots, 



ecompany the stems, as they are imported, a 



re said to be much 







e. imagined that this product must come f 



rom Rhodes, trans- 



It is, 



Oil of Rhodium i- the name given to the'oil obtained from this plant. 

 The wood when powdered has been recommended to promo 



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Mr. Barker Webb, in a note i />>,,/. h'ra , ! < \ \ K App. p. 70) remarks :— 

 "The roots of both the oi . lu$ floridui ' 



scoparius) are fragn 



mt, and"" yield 





simple distillation, X 





in a less degree, or sometime^, 





,- any. The ori 





from Macedonia was 





■ - - s", /:'..".' ■ .. a figured as 



such by Parkinson 



in his thcatn 



nn Botanicum, after Lobel. 'It 







on the mountains of 



r Pangle and Ingleb. 



ferred ' to Vw 



■nlrufus scoparius', an •! 



