500 
OCTANDRIA. TETRAGYNIA. Paris. 
P. convolvulus. Leaves heart-arrow-shaped: stem twining, angu¬ 
lar : segments of the calyx obtusely keeled. E.) 
Curt. 253— {E. Bot. 941. E.)— FI. Dan. 744— Ger. 713. 4. 
(Stem twining from left to right, to the height of several feet, sometimes 
roughish, branched. Siam, occasionally but six. Styles sometimes only 
two. Sm. E.) Leaves arrow-shaped, (alternate, stalked, E.) the angles 
at the base sometimes lopped. Flowering spikes longer than the leaves. 
Blossom greenish white, (in terminal interrupted spikes, each on a little 
stalk. E.) Anthers red. 
Black Bindweed. Climbing Snakeweed or Buck-wheat. (Bear- 
bind. E.) (Welsh: Ytta^; Taolus yr yd. E.) Corn-fields, gardens, 
and hedges. A. June—Sept.* * 
TETRAGYNIA. 
PA'RIS.f Calyx four-leaved : Petals four, narrower: Berry 
four-celled : ( Seeds numerous. E.) 
P. quadrifo'lia. (Leaves four, ovate, at the top of a simple stem: 
flower solitary. E.) 
Kniph. 12— FI. Dan'. 139— E. Bot. 7— Blackw. 286— Matth. 1093— Dod. 
444— Lob. Obs. 137. 2— Ger. Em. 405. 1— Ger. 328.1— Pet. 44. 8— Fuchs. 
87— J. B. iii. 613— Park. 390. 1—if. Ox. xiii. 3. 6. 
Root somewhat fleshy. Stem naked, eight to twelve inches high. Leaves 
shining, from one to seven; plants with one, two, three, and four leaves 
barren; with from three to seven bearing a flower. Calyx sometimes 
with only three leaves. Caley. Leaves mostly four, large, tapering to a 
point, (verticillate on the top of the stalk, above which arises a solitary, 
angular, peduncle. E.) Styles purplish black, hardly so long as the berry. 
Blossoms pale green. 
(For a representation of this plant with five leaves, and the flower follow¬ 
ing the quinary division, presenting five calyx-leaves and petals, ten 
stamens, five styles, and a five-celled capsule, vid. Obs. on the Plants of 
South Kent, by Mr. Gerard Edwards Smith. PI. 1. E.) 
as a manure to the land. The seeds are excellent food for poultry, (especially for pheasants, 
nothing encouraging them to remain in a particular spot more than a small stack of Buck¬ 
wheat. E.) Sheep that eat this plant become unhealthy. As it flowers late in the 
summer, M. Du Hamel, in his observations upon the management of bees, advises to move 
the hives in the autumn to a situation where plenty of Buckwheat is sown. (Another 
writer on this subject says, that he has known the bees of a very large apiary fill the combs 
with honey in a fortnight in consequence of being placed near a large field of Buckwheat. 
E.) Cows, goats, and sheep eat it; swine and horses refuse it. (A writer in Gent. Mag. 
v. 56. insists that swine not only eat but prefer Buckwheat, and relates a curious instance 
of violent thirst and intoxication being occasioned thereby. E.) 
* The seeds are quite as good for use as the preceding species, are procjuced in greater 
quantity, and the plant bears cold better. Cows and goats eat it: sheep, swine, and horses 
refuse it. Linn. A horse eat it. St. Phalcvna Lubricipeda is found upon several of the 
species. (This is considered by the agriculturist as one of the weeds which infest samples 
of corn. In wheat the seeds are very objectionable ; in oats not so much so, horses being 
fond of them. In its growing state it is particularly injurious by getting above laid corn, 
and effectually preventing its rising. E.) 
t (Of obscure etymology : according to Ambrosinus, “ a par it ate foliorum." E.) 
