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Show 58 The BRITIS H; who firft foundit in Kent, called it Convol minimo ad t a fe ; and underthis name . 2 I 2 iti mnodfis it is placed in Dillenius’s edition ofF the Synop/ of Britifo plants. 5. Sea Bindweed. Soldanella vulgaris. The root is long, flender, and creeping: The ftalks are round, ftriated, weak, and lly of a purplith colour: they growto a foot or more in length, and lean upon the ground. The leaves ftandirregularly : they have jong footftalks, and are of a rounded figure, rather broader than long, and have a kind of ears at the ftalk. ae The flowers are large, and of a beautiful eep ed: they have long footftalks, and rife fingly from the bofoms of the leaves. The feed-veffe] is fhort. The ftalk is tough, the leaves are of a flefhy thick fubftance, and the plant abounds with a milky juice. It is common on ourfea-coafts, and flowers in June. DiduNedcs 1 ON: +l; H E-RoB Sagittatis pedunculis bifloris. The root is very long, large, and thick, and furnifhed with many fibres. The ftalks are numerous and weak, like thofe of our co great bindweed : they climb upon bufhes in the fame manner, and ran to eight feet in length. The leaves ftand irregularly, and have long footftalks: they are large, oblong, and of the arrowhead fhape ; they are fharp at the point, and’as it were cut off with a nick at the two ends behind the ftalk. The flowers are large, hollow, undivided, and of a beautiful purple: they ftand two upon each footftalk ; but only one of them blowsat a time. The feed-veffel is fingle, and roundifh, the feeds large and black. It is a native of Syria, and flowers in June. J. Bauhine calls it Scammonea Syriaca flore ma jore convoluuli, Others, Scammonea Syriaca. The drug known bythe name of Scammonyat the druggifts, is the hardened juice of the root of this plant: it is a ftrong cathartick. We have feen that the roots of moft of the 3; purging, and this poffeffes that quality in the ftrongeft si degreeof TCE all. The jjuice which we know by the name of /cammony, though anexcellent, is a rough medicine, and is never to be given without correctives. 2. Cretick Scammony. Convolvulus radice longiffima. The root is flender, brown, and of a yaft Jength. The ftalks are numerous, flender, weak, and three or four feet high. ‘The leaves ftand in pairs ; and are large, and It is a native of Italy, and flowers in Junes §& of a beautiful green: they have long, flender footftalks, and are heart-fafhioned at the bafe, narrow in proportion to their length, aud pointed at the ends, The flowers are large, and of a beautiful purple: they ftand fingly at the tops of the branches, and are irregularly dented at the edges. The feed-veffel is fhort and thick, and the feeds are black. It is a native of the ifland of Crete, and flowers in July. Alpinus calls it Scammonea macrorbizos, Others, Scammonea Cretica. The root abounds with a fharp juice, of the fame nature with that of the Syrian fcammony It is prepared in the fame manner , by dry- ing, and ufed for the fame purpofes; but it is milder than the other. 3. Silver Bindweed. Convolvulus althea fois argent eus. The root is long, lender, and {preading. The ftalks are numerous, and weak : upon the ground, and are of a pal ale hairy, and tough. The leaves ftandirre sularly. They have long footftalks, which ‘are fo weak that they often droop: they are of a beautiful fhape andcolour : they are oblong, heart-fathioned at the bafe, and pointed at the end; but toward the bafe they are alfo deeply indented or divided in the palmated manner; and they are notched all the way alongthe edges. The flowers ufually grow two on a footftalk, fometimes fingly. Each hasits own feparate pedicle ; and they are large; andof a beautiful red. Thefeed-veffel is thort and thick BRD Til Sit The whole plant is of a fine whitith filvery hue, and when broken does not afford a milky juice, as moft dindweeds do. Theroots and leaves of this fpecies are a very violent purge: they are much more fharp in their operation than thofe of the common bindweed; but for conftitutions that can bear them, they may be ufeful. There have been inftances of great gooddone by this plant in dropfies. Some upon the fea-coafts pickle the young tops in the mannerof fampire; and even in this way they purge very brifky. In this form they are a popular remedyagainft the fcurvy ; whence the plant has obtained the name of /¢ afs among the common people ; that name of right belonging toa quite different plant, The beft way of giving it is, to dry and powder the root ; but evenin this ftate it will work very violently. Its proper correttives are ginger and annifeeds ; and, with right management, it may thus be made very ferviceable in fome ftubborn complaints, FOREIGN 1. Syrian Scammony. The. C. Bauhine calls it Others, Solda We have no other tive of this country. C. Bauhine calls it Convolvulus argenteu s folio althee. J. Bauhine, Convolvulus Deregrinus pulcher folio Betonice. HeE-K BA Ty, Others, Convolvulus [pica foliis. 4. Little blue Bindweed. 7+ Oak-leaved Bindweed, Convolvulus ceruleus minor. The root is long, flender, brown, and hung with many fibres, The ftalks are weak, round, hairy, of a pale green colour, and a foot high, The leaves ftand irregularly, and in a confiderable number: they have no footftalks: they are of a pale green, long, narrow, and pointed at the ends: the edges are not at all dented , and they are but alittle hairy. “he flowers ftand fingly on long, flender footftalks, rifing from the bofoms of the leaves : theyare large, andof a beautiful blue. The feed-veffel is fhort and thick. It is a native of Africa and of fome of the warmer parts of Europe, and flowers in July. C. Bauhine calls it Convolvulus peregrinus ceruleus folio oblongo. Others, Convoloulus cceruléns 5. Small-leaved Bindweed, Convolvulus ramofus folio parvo. The root is fmall, fibrous, and brown. The ftalks are numerous, round, of a pale green, and tolerably firm: they divide into many branches; and frequently ftand upright, They are fix or eight inches high. The leaves are {mall, oblong, and rounded at the ends. They fometimes ftand in pairs, but oftener fingly. The branches rife from the bofoms of thefe, and are long, flender, and often divided into others. The leaves on thefe are very {mall and numerous; andthey ftand altogether irregularly. The flowers are large, and of a bright red: they grow towards the tops of the branches , and have very fhort footftalks. The feed-vefiel is fhort andthick. It is a native of Italy, and flowers in June. Aorifon calls it Convolvulus ramofus Pona, Helxine ciffampelos ram is alfo a native of that Ifland. 6. Many-leaved Bindweed, Soliis numerofis anguptis. inted at the ends, n i € green: the j nd on long foot- ftalks, and fade whenthe ftalks rife. Th Steen, fix or feve branched. The leaves are numerous, and ftand thic k: they are sw, pale, undivided at the edges, 1 fcarce any foot- wers are numerous, moderately large, 6 59 of a beautiful pale red ; and they generally prow two together. They ate divided at the rim into five, pointed fegments. The feed-veffel is fmall. It is a native of Italy, and flowers in June. C.Bauhine calls it Convolvylys Linarie folio Convoloulus quercus folio. The root is flender, fibrous, and brown: ( The firft leaves rife in a thick tuft: they aré of a deep green colour, of a flefhy fubftance, and ftand onlong footftalks : they have fome rude refemblance of oak leaves in miniature, only they are léfs indented toward the point, andblu nter at the ends, The ftalks are numerous, tough, round, red- ifh, and two foot high: they ftand more éreé& than moft of the other dj, weeds, but not perfetly fo. The leaves ftand alternately : they refembl e thofe at the root, but they are fmaller , and not fo flefhy. The flowers growfingly from the bofoms of the leaves, and have long, flender footfta lks : they are large, undivided at the edge, andof a dufky purplith colour. The feed-veffel is large, and full of dark coloured feeds, It is a native of the fea-coafts of Italy, but noé common. Imperatus calls it So/danelle maritime¢ 8. Cretick Bindweed, called Dorycnium. Convoluulus multiflorus fericeus. The root is long, thick, and has but few fibres. The firft leaves are long, narrow, undividec 3 and have no footftalks : they are of a filvery whitenefs, and foft to the touch, The ftalks are numerous, round, firm, and woody: they do not lie upon the ground, as in moft ofthe others, but ftand erect. The leaves on them are narrow , long, and blunt at the end, and have the fame filky afpect with thofe from the root: they are numerous, andftandirregularly, with young tufts frequently in their bofoms. The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks, fix or eight together, and they are large, and of a beautiful red, though fometimes white. The feed-veffel is thort and thick It is a native of the Greek iflands, and flowers in July. Morifoncalls it Convoluulus major ¥ cus argenteus, Others, Dorycnium, and Cy vith. » and C. Bauhine, Cneorum album folio ole arventeo Linnéeus fuppofes this; and the laft but one; varieties of the fame ff 3 but they are truly diftinét, Ivy-leaved Bindweed. yous, and brown. numerous, and forth are placed on long footftalks, ang |