OONV OL'YULU S BRYONLEFO'LIUS. 
BRIONY-LEAVED BINDWEED. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CONVOLVE LAC EJE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers 
Duration. 
Introduced 
China. 
2 feet. 
Aug., Sep. 
Perennial. 
in 1802. 
No. 1124. 
This genus is well characterized by its name, 
from convolvo, to entwine ; not, however, that every 
species is a twiner, but that by far the greater 
portion are so. In a genus of plants, comprising 
about two hundred, a character merely of habit 
cannot be expected to be completely constant 
amongst the whole. 
Although this plant is an old inhabitant of our 
gardens, it is becoming better known from the in- 
troduction of foreign seeds, from which it has lately 
been raised ; indeed, the facility of communication 
with our colonies, and other parts of the globe, is 
giving to botanists abundance of enjoyment, not 
that the most nervous collector has occasion to fear 
that during the next thousand years, either ama- 
teur or professional botanists will so search every 
nook and corner of the earth, as to leave nothing 
new for their successors to rejoice over. 
The Briony-leaved Convolvulus, when its root 
has become strong, produces abundance of flowers, 
which have a gay effect, and in no situation more 
so than when twining amongst ornamental stones 
or sculpture. It should have a light soil. 
