298 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Convolvulus. 
AZA'LEx^.* Bloss. bell-shaped : Stam. inserted on the recep¬ 
tacle : Caps, five-celled, many-seeded : ( Summit obtuse. 
E.) 
A. procum'bens. Branches spreading wide and trailing: (leaves oppo¬ 
site, revolute, very smooth. E.) 
( E. Bot. 865. E.)— Linn. Lapp. 6. 2—Clus. i. 75. 3— J. B. i. a 527— Jonst. 
116. 8 —FL Dan. 9— Penn. Tour in Scotl. ii. 5. p. 43. 
(Plant growing in tufts of various sizes. Stems (dwarfish,) very woody, 
leafless below. Leaves small, almost like those of thyme, smooth and 
glossy, rigid, channelled down the middle. Flowers corymbose, ter¬ 
minal, rose-coloured. Hook. E.) 
Trailing Rosebay. Highland mountains, on dry barren ground, near 
their summit. Ben Lomond, near the top. Found there first by the 
Rev. Mr. Stuart, of Luss. Smith. (In abundance on Ben Bourde, on 
Lochain y Gair, near Invercauld; more sparingly on Ben Lawers, Ben 
Teskerney, and Malghyrdy. Mr. Brown. On Ben-y-gloe, near Blair 
Athol. Mr. Winch. E.) S. July. 
CONVOL'VULUS.-f* Bloss. bell-shaped, plaited: Nect. sur¬ 
rounding the base of the germen: Summits two: Caps. 
two or three-celled, two seeds in each. 
(1) Stem twining. 
C. arven'sis. Leaves arrow-shaped, with acute lobes: fruit-stalks 
generally single-flowered. 
Curt. 119. (E. Bot . 312. E.)— Kniph. 12— FL Dan. 4 59—Wale.—Fuchs. 
258— J. B. ii. 157— Trag. 806— Ger. 712. 2— Clus. ii. 50. 1— Dod. 393— 
Lob. Obs. 340. 2 —Ger. Em. 861. C 2—Park. 171. 2— H. Ox. 1. 3. 9. 
{Stems one to three feet long, slender, angular, twisted, often prostrate from 
want of support. Leaves alternate, petiolate, smooth. Flowers hand¬ 
some, nearly an inch over, sometimes yellowish white, but more fre- 
furnishes the muse of sentiment with the following reflection ; 
<f Oh, it is thus, when grief’s keen blast 
Has o’er the chasten’d spirit past. 
Till all the future lot seems traced 
On sorrow’s lone and dreary waste. 
She finds unthought-of sweets that bloom 
Amid the desert’s cheering gloom. 
These, lovelier than the fragile flowers 
That wave in Joy’s luxurious bowers. 
Sweet as the bud of Sharon’s rose. 
Amid the wild their leaves unclose. 
And give to heaven’s pure gales alone 
Perfections to the world unknown. 
And thus it is that heaven can bless 
The bleak and lonely wilderness; 
And thus in Sorrow’s lowly state. 
Where all seems drear and desolate. 
Become the thorny wastes of care, 
Amid neglect and ruin, fair.” E.) 
* (From afaXsos, dry; as preferring an arid soil. E.) 
f (Derived from convolvo, to twine around $ such being the habit of the majority of these 
plants. E.) 
