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CONVOLVULUS fepium.
Great Bind-weed.
P E N ¥ A N D R IA Monogyma.
G en. C har. Cor. bell-fhaped, plaited. Stigmas 2.
CapfuJe with 2 cells, and 2 feeds in each.
Spec. C har. Leaves arrow-fhaped, the polterior
lobes lopped. Flower-ftalks fquare, tingle-
flowered. Bradieaa heart-thaped, clofe to the
flower.
Syn . Convolvulus fepium. Linn. Sp. PI. 2 18 . Hudf.
FI. A n. 88. With. Bot. A rr. 2 1 3 . Relh. Cant.
87. Sibth. Ox. 76. Curt. Lond. fa fc. 1. t. 13.
C. major. Rail Syn. 275 .
T P H IS , one of the moll elegant and graceful of all our wild
flowers, is equally common with the preceding fpecies, though
its place of growth be different. It inhabits moift hedges,
twining about willows and reeds, and decorating them with
its very confpicuous flowers throughout July and Auguft.
The roots are long, creeping, and perennial, a little flefhy.
Stems very long, twining, fomewhat angular, fmooth, not
much branched. Leaves alternate, on fmooth footflalks about
half their own length, dependent, fmooth, of a '("welling arrow-
fhape, with the angles at the bafe abruptly cut off. Stipulse
none. Flowers folitary, on axillary, undivided, fquare, curved
(talks, with a pair of heartfhaped, red-bordered bradtese, clofe
to the flower and enfolding the proper calyx, which is fmaller,
of 5 lanceolate leaves. Corolla generally white, but fometimes
(as Dillenius obferves in Ray’s Synopfis) of an uniform flefli or
rofe-colour. Anthers cream-coloured. Stigmas (hort and
thick. Seeds fcarcely ever perfected.
An extract of the herb is faid to be a violent purge, like
Scammony.