THE
Botanical Magazine;
OR,
Flower-Garden Displayed:
IN WHICH
The most Ornamental Foreign Plants, cultivated in theOpen Ground, the Greenhouse, and the Stove, are accuratelyrepresented in their natural Colours.
TO WHICH ARE ADDED,
Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, accordingto the celebrated Linnæus; their Places of Growth, andTimes of Flowering:
TOGETHER WITH
THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE.
A WORK
Intended for the Use of such Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gardeners, aswish to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate.
By WILLIAM CURTIS,
Author of the Flora Londinensis.
VOL. IX.
"To watch the buds just op'ning on the day;
"With welcome shade to screen the languid flowers,
"That sicken in the summer's parching ray.
"With tender hand each bruised plant to rear;
"To bind the drooping lily's broken stalk,
"And nurse the blossoms of the infant year."
Mrs. Barbauld.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY STEPHEN COUCHMAN,
For W. CURTIS, N^o 3, St. George's Crescent, Black-Friars-Road;
And Sold by the principal Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland.
M DCC XCV.
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Convolvulus Linearis. Narrow-LeavedConvolvulus.
Class and Order.
Pentandria Monogynia.
Generic Character.
Corolla campanulata, plicata. Stigmata 2. Caps. 2-locularis:loculis dispermis.
Specific Character.
CONVOLVULUS linearis caulibus erectis fruticosis, foliislinearibus acutis piloso-sericeis, floribusterminalibus umbellato-paniculatis, calycibuspilosis.
The plant here represented has long been cultivated as agreenhouse plant in this country under the name of ConvolvulusCantabrica, but it differs so essentially from that plant, as figuredand described by Prof. Jacquin in his Flora Austr. andaccords so little with the other species described by Linnæus,that we have been induced to regard it as a perfectly distinctspecies; in most points it agrees with Convolvulus Cneorum, butdiffers in having leaves much narrower, more pointed, andless silky.
It strikes most readily from cuttings, is a hardy greenhouseplant, and flowers during most of the Summer, qualities whichmany of the modern and more shewy greenhouse plantscannot boast.
The precise time of its introduction here, together with itsparticular place of grow