PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Convolvulus. 299 
quently pink, varied with white plaits. ( Floral-leaves very small, distant 
from the flowers. FI. Brit. E.) 
Var. 2. Leaves arrow-strap-shaped. 
Pluk. 24. 3. 
Both leaves and flowers smaller. 
Between Harleston and Eversden, Cambridgeshire. Ray. 
Var. 3. Blossom very small, almost divided to the base. 
Near Maidstone. Ray. 
Small Bindweed. (Welsh: Cynghafawg fechan; Taglys. E.) Corn-, 
fields and road-sides, (especially in light, sandy, or calcareous soils. E.) 
P. June—July.* 
C. se'pium. Leaves arrow-shaped, lobes truncated: fruit-stalk quad¬ 
rangular, single-flowered. 
(E. Bot. 313. E.) — Curt. — FI. Dan. 458— Sheldr. 56— Blackw. 38— Kniph. 
12— Dod. 392—Lob. Obs. 340. 1— Ger. Em. 861. 1— Park. 163. 3—H. 
Ox. i. 3. 6— Ger. 712. 1— Fuchs. 720— J. B. ii. 154— Trag. 805 —Blair At. 
3— Swert. ii. 14. 8— Wale. 5. 
(Stems climbing many feet. Leaves large, smooth, alternate, on leaf-stalks. 
Flowers two inches over, sometimes tinged with pink. E.) Floral- 
leaves two, close to the calyx; in the preceding species at some dis¬ 
tance below it. The large size of its fine milk-white blossoms renders it 
a beautiful ornament to our hedges. 
(A var. with blossoms of deep bluish or rose-colour; abundant in a lane 
leading from Merton, by Earl Spencer’s Park, to Wandsworth. Graves. 
E,) 
Great Bindweed. (Welsh: Cynghafawg, fawr, Tagwydd. E.) Moist 
hedges and thickets. P. July—Aug.t 
(2) Stem not twining 
C. soldanel'la. Leaves kidney-shaped: fruit-stalk one-flowered, 
(with membranous angles: stems procumbent. E.) 
(E. Bot. 314. E.) — Matth. 469— Dod. 395—Lob. Obs. 329. 2— Ger. Em. 
838. I—Park. 168. 2. 6— H. Ox. i. 3. 2— Ger. 690. 
* (However attractive this pretty plant may be to the Botanist or Florist, it is often a 
most troublesome weed to the Agriculturist, and difficult to eradicate. The root creeps 
powerfully, and the stems entwine around and choke the plants of corn, pulse, or grass. 
Perseverance in hoeing, to prevent the young shoots from expanding their leaves, will in one 
season exhaust the roots, so that a naked summer fallow, with deep ploughing, and careful 
forking out, will effectually overcome this evil. Essay on Weeds. The process must be 
followed with perseverance, as the smallest fragment of the root of this species of Devil’s- 
guts , (to speak technically to human beings,) will very quickly rise to a perfect plant. These 
elegant flowers would appear to form a favourite resort for Thrips Physapus, a fly which 
causes intolerable titillation in hot weather. Walking through a wheat-field in July, 
Messrs. Kirby and Spence observed that all the blossoms of C. arvensis, though very nu¬ 
merous, were interiorly turned quite black by the infinite number of these insects, 
which were coursing about within them. E.) 
+ The inspissated juice of the plant, in doses of twenty or thirty grains, is a drastic ape¬ 
rient. Scammony is a similar preparation fom another species of Convolvulus so much re¬ 
sembling this that they are with difficulty distinguished. (Jalap is also a congener. E.) 
Though an acrid purgative to the human race, it is eaten by hogs in large quantities without 
detriment. Sheep, goats, and horses eat it. Cows refuse it. (A dangerous plant to introduce 
in gardens and shrubberies, destroying other vegetables, even shrubs, where it gains an as¬ 
cendancy, and itself most difficult to extirpate. J£.) 
