The BRITISH HERBAL. 
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The whole plant is of a fine whitiHi filvery 
hue, and when broken does not afford a milky- 
juice, as moil: bmdweeds do. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Convolvulus argenteus folio 
altha^. J. Bauhine, Convolvulus fer-egr'mus piil- 
cher folio Betonicte. 
4. Little blue Bindweed. 
Convolvulus caruleus minor. 
The root is long, flender, brown, and hung 
■with many fibres. 
The ftalks are weak, round, hairy, of a pale 
green colour, and a foot high. 
The leaves ftand irregularly, and in a confide- 
rable number : they have no footftalks : they 
are of a pale green, long, narrow, and pointed 
at the ends : the edges are nut at all dented, and 
they are but a little hairy. 
The flowers itand fingly on long, fiendcr foot- 
ftalks, rifing from the bolbms of the leaves : 
they are large, and of a bcautiiul blue. 
The feed-velTel is Ihort and thick. 
It is a native of Africa and of feme of the 
warmer parts of Europe, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Convolvulus peregrinus c^ru- 
leus folio dhlongo. Others, Convolvulus cerulem 
minor, 
5. f riall-leaved Bindweed, 
Convolvulus ramofus folio parvo. 
The root is fmall, fibrous, and brown. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, of a pale 
green, and tolerably firm : they divide into 
many branches; and frequently ftand upright. 
They are fix or eight inches high. 
The leaves are fmall, oblong, and rounded at 
the ends. They fomecimes ftand in pairs, but 
oftener fingly. 
The branches rife from the bofoms of thefe, 
and are long, flender, and often divided into 
others. The leaves on thcfe are very fmall and 
numerous ; and they ftand altogether irregularly. 
The flowers are large, and of a bright red : 
they grow towards the tops of the branches, 
and have very fhort footftalks. 
The feed-vefTel is ftiort and thick. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in June. 
Morifon calls it Convolvulus ramofus minor. 
Pona, Helxine ciffampelos ramofa CretUa \ for it 
is alfo a native of that Ifland. 
6. Many-leaved Bindweed. 
Convolvulus foliis numerofis angufiis. 
The root Is long, woody, brown, and furnifh- 
ed with many fibres. The leaves that rife from 
it are very narrow, longifh, pointed at the ends, 
and of a pale green : they ftand on long foot- 
ftalks, and fade when the ftalks rife. 
Thefe are numerous, flender, tough, of a pale 
green, fix or feven inches long, and confiderably 
branched. 
The leaves arc numerous, and ftand thick : 
they are narrow, pale, undivided at the edges, 
pointed at the ends, and have Icarce any foot- 
itaiks. 
The flowers are numerous, moderately large, 
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of a beautiful pale red ; and they generally grow 
two together. They are divided at the rim intd 
five, pointed fegments. 
The feed-vefTei is fmall. 
It is a native of Italy, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Convolvulus linarij: folio: 
Others, Convolvulus fpic^e foliis. 
7. Oak-leaved Bindweed. 
Convolvulus qucrcus folio. 
The root is (lender, fibrous, and brown. 
The firft leaves rife in a thick tuft : they are 
of a deep green colour, of a flefhy fubftancc, and 
ftand on I- ng footftalks : they have fomc rude 
refemblance of oak leaves in miniatutL-, only they 
are lefs indented toward tlic point, and blunter at 
the ends. 
The ftalks are numerous, tough, round, rcd- 
ifli, and two toot high : tliey ftand more eredt: 
than moft of the other birnkveeds^ but not per- 
fei5:]y fo. 
The leaves ftand altcrnarely : they referable 
thofe at the root, but they are fmaller, and noc 
fo flefliy. 
The flowers grow fingly from the bofoms of 
the leaves, and have long, flender fborftalks : 
they are large, undivided at the edge, and of a 
dufky purplifli colour. 
The feed-vcflTel is large, and full of dark co- 
loured feeds. 
k is a native of the fea-coafts of Italy, but noc 
common. 
Imperatus calls it Soldanellie mariiim^ congener. 
S. Cretick Bindweed, called Dorycnium. 
Convolvulus mulliflorus fcriceus. 
The root is long, thick, and has but few 
fibres. 
The firft leaves are long, narrow, undivided, 
and have no footftalks : they are of a filvery 
whitenefs, and foft to the touch. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, firm, and 
: woody : they do not lie upon the ground, as in 
moft of the others, but ftand ercc^. 
The leaves on them are narrow, long, and 
blunt at the end, and have the fame filky afped 
with thofe from the root: they are numerous, 
and ftand irregularly, with young tufts frequently 
in their bufon^s. 
The fiowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, fix 
or eight together, and they are large, and of a 
beautiful red, though fometimes white. 
The feed-veflcl is fliort and thick. 
It i^ a native of the Greek iflands, and flowers 
in July. 
Morifon calls it Convolvulus major re^us Creii- 
cus argenteus. Others^, Dorycnium^ and Cn arum. 
C. Bauhine, Cneorum album folio oLe argentdo 
molli. 
LinnSEUs fuppofca this, and the hift but one, 
varieties of the fame fpecies ; but they are truly 
diftinft. 
9. Ivy-lcavcd Bindweed. 
Convolvulus foliis Irilohis. 
T'iie root is fmall, fibrous, and brown, 
l^ie firft leaves are large, numerous, and form 
a thick tuft. They arc placed on bng foorfialks, 
