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Section I.— EU-CON VOLVULUS. (Convolvulus, R. Br.) 
Bracteoles small, distant from the base of the calyx. Capsule 
2-celled. 
SPECIES I.-CONVOLVULUS ARVENSIS. Linn. 
Plate DCCCCXXIIL 
Reich. Ic. EL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVIII. Tab. MCCCXXXVII. Fig. 3. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1533. 
Rootstock creeping*. Stem twining or trailing, twisted upon 
itself. Leaves thin, stalked, ovate- or oblong- or strapshaped-trian- 
gular, sagittate-hastate or hastate at the base, obtuse, apiculate, 
entire or repand. Peduncles axillary, solitary, with 2 small strap- 
shaped bracteoles beyond the middle, 1-flowered or with several 
flowers in a cyme, in which case each pedicel except the primary 
one has 2 small bracteoles beyond the middle. Sepals without 
bracteoles at the base, free nearly to the base, broadly oval, obtuse 
or truncate, very unequal. Corolla five or six times as long as 
the calyx. 
In fields and cultivated ground, hedge-banks, road-sides, and 
waste places. Very common in England ; local in Scotland, ex- 
tending North to Aberdeen, Moray, Stirling, and Renfrew : said to 
have been found in Orkney, but I have never seen it there, nor 
heard of its recent occurrence. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 
Rootstock descending deeply into the ground. Stems numerous, 
somewhat tufted, slightly branched, varying in length, sometimes 
2 or 3 feet high when climbing, but they arc more usually merely 
trailing. Leaves 1 to 2\ inches long, varying very much in breadth, 
and in the direction of the basal lobes. Peduncles longer than 
the leaves, usually 1- or 2- (more rarely 3- to G-) flowered. Corolla 
1 to 1} inch across, pink or nearly white, Avith triangular reddish 
stripes on the back, often with a reddish ring within near the 
base, which is yellowish. Bracteoles lanceolate-strapshaped, minute. 
Fruiting-pedicels recurved. Capsule globular, acuminate, about the 
size of a large pea, glabrous. Seeds large, usually 4, subtrigonous, 
deep reddish-brown, roughened witli minute points. Plant glabrous, 
or often with the peduncles and sometimes the leaves pubescent. 
Small Bindweed. 
French, Liseron des Champs. German, Acker Winde. 
This pretty little creeping plant is well known to all lovers of wild flowers. It 
has a pleasant sweet scent, and entwines itself round the stem of every tree or shrub 
