Identifier: populargreenhous00catl (find matches)
Title: Popular greenhouse botany; containing a familiar and technical description of a selection of the exotic plants introduced into the greenhouse
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Catlow, Agnes, 1807?-1889
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: London, L. Reeve
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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followingwill bear the greenhouse, and are highly ornamental asclimbers:—I. Purshii, candicans, tyriantliina, Michauxii,Carolina, sinuata, and longifolia are American species,having either white, purple, whitish-red, or rose-colouredflowers; pendula, purple-flowered, is from Australia, anddasysperma is from the East Indies: with the exception ofthe last, these are perennials. I. simplex, a South Africanspecies, has a root about the size of an apple, very un-couth in appearance, and yet it produces the most lovelyclusters of flowers from the base of the stem; in the f Bo-tanical Magazine it is thus described:—It is one of theIpomoeas that is best worth cultivating, for it only needs asmall pot, placed in a greenhouse, and no trellis or apparatusto support the stems, which at most do not exceed a footin length, and are clothed with long, slender, grass-likeleaves; these leaves are three or four inches long, narrow,and having waved margins : the corolla is very large, of a Plate XDJ
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CONVOLYULACEiE. 199 fine rose-colour, the tube slightly enlarged upwards, andexpanding into the broad spreading limbafter floweringthe stem dies down to the roots. L Jalapa, the plantwhich produces the medicinal substance known as Jalap, isnow called Exogonium purga, and differs from the presentgenus in having the corolla tubular, and the stamens pro-jecting from the opening; it is a lovely plant, and is nearlyhardy, bearing a cool greenhouse or frame; the stem isclimbing; the leaves heart-shaped, deeply lobed at thebase; the flower of a fine form, and shining purplish-redhue. These plants require good soil. CONVOLVULUS. (Bindweed.) Gen. Char. (Pentandria Monogynia.) Flowers inferior, mono-petalous, campanulate; stigmas two-cleft; capsules two-celled,two-seeded. Named from convolvere, to entwine, one of the greatcharacteristics of this pretty genus, of which we have somany hardy species in the garden; for the greenhousethere are C. multifidus and alceifolius, from the Cape;lanatus, Cn

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