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~CONVOLVULUS siculus. 
Small-flowered Bindweed. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNI4A. 3 
Nat. ord. CONVOLVULI. Jussieu gen, 13. Div. I. 
CONYOLVULACER. Brown prod. 1. 481. Sect. I. 
CONVOLVULUS. Supre vol. 2. fol. 133, 
: Div. Caule prostrato s. non volubili. 
CG. siculus, foliis cordato-ovatis superioribus acutis, pedunculis unifloris folio © 
brevioribus, bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis calyce ciliato longioribus. Willd. 
enun. 1, 205. 
Convolyulus siculus. Zin. sp. pl. ed. 2.1. 293. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 9. 
Wiild. sp. pl. 1. 866. Hort. Kew, 1. 219, ed. 2. 1. 335- Lamarck encyc. 
3.540. Flor. grec. t. 196. Lam. § Decand. flor. frang. 3. 646. 
Convolvulus ovatus. Monch meth. 450. 
Convyolvulus siculus minor flore parvo auriculato. Boccon. sic. 89. tab. 48. 
Convolvulus africanus minor. Moris. hist. 2. 18. t. 7. fig 5. 
Annus prostratus v. rariis subyolubilis, pedalis v. subsesquipedalis, 
ramosus, distantér foliosus, ramis teretibus sublanato-pilosis, Fol. sparsa 
inflexione subsecunda, subcordato-ovata, sesquiuncialia v. circa latitudine 
3 partium uncie, nervosa, pilostuscula; petiolus triplo brevior lamina v. 
ultra. Pedunculi solitarit, axillares, uniflori, filiformi-graciles, bis longiores 
petiolis, pilost, Junta infra calycem opposito-bibracteati; bracteis foliaceis 
elongato-lanceolatis pubescentibus patentibus duplo longioribus calyce. Cal. 
pilosus; foliola elliptico-lanceolata, acuminata, piloso-ciliaia, persistentia, 2 
anteriora duplo fere minora, 3 exteriora subequalia partum breviora corolla. 
Cor. & minimis generis, ceruleus ; limbo turbinato-rotato, tubo brevi pallido. 
Caps. globosa, glabra, apiculata, 2-loc. 4-sperma. 
The smallest flowered of its genus we have met with. 
Usually ranked in the division of trailers or those which do 
not climb by twining round foreign support; but as the 
branches of our plant are sometimes seen to wind round 
each other as they lie on the ground, it seems to us to be 
rather an intermediate link between the twining and the 
trailing divisions of the genus, than to belong exclusively 
to either. 
Native of the southernmost parts of Europe, the Coast 
of Barbary, and Greece. Cultivated, as stated in Parkin- 
son’s Theatrum Botanicum, by Mr. James Boel in 1640; 
but now very rare in our gardens, where we had never met 
with it, till last October, when we found it in a collection 
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