MILLER mentions it as a plant of no great use or beauty, in the latter point of view CLUSIUS, who was one of the first to figure and describe it, and GERARD, thought differently; its foliage is certainly beautiful, somewhat like that of the milk thistle, its blossoms are large and shewy, though not of long duration; like the Celandine, the whole plant abounds with a yellow juice, which flows out when it is wounded; it differs from the poppy, to which it is nearly related, in having a calyx of three leaves. Though a native of a very warm climate, it is cultivated with as much facility as any annual whatever; in the gardens about London, where it has once grown, and scattered its seeds, it comes up spontaneously every spring, flowers in July and August, and ripens its seeds in September; these are large, somewhat round, of a black colour, with a beautiful surface; a light rich soil and warm situation suits it best. [244] IPOMOEA QUAMOCLIT. WINGED LEAV'D IPOMOEA. _Class and Order._ PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. _Generic Character._ _Corolla_ infundibuliformis. _Stigma_ capitato-globosum. _Caps._ 3-locularis. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ IPOMOEA _Quamoclit_ foliis pinnatifidis linearibus, floribus subsolitariis. _Linn, Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p. 204._ _Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 215._ QUAMOCLIT _s_ Jasminum Americanum. _Clus. Posth. 9._ CONVOLVULUS tenuifolius Americanus. The red Bellflower of America. _Park. Parad. p. 358. 3._ In a former number of this work, we gave a figure of the Scarlet Ipomoea, which every one possessing a garden, at least in the more southern parts of this kingdom, might gratify themselves with a sight of, it being hardy enough to flower and ripen its seeds in the open border; but the present species, an annual also, and equally beautiful, with greater singularity of foliage, can be brought to perfection only in the stove of hot-house. Its seeds should be sown early in the spring, two or three in a small pot; when the plants are so far advanced as to shew a disposition to climb, they should be removed with a ball of earth into a middle-sized pot, in which one, two, or three sticks, four or five feet high should be stuck, for the plants to climb up; in the months of June and July they will flower, and ripe seed will be produced in September. This elegant species, a native of both the Indies, was cultivated here by PARKINSON, who minutely describes it in his _Parad terr._ when speaking of the seed, he observes, "with us it will seldom come to flower, because our cold nights and frosts come so soone, before it cannot have comfort enough of the sun to ripen it." [Illustration: _No 244_] [245] TEUCRIUM LATIFOLIUM. BROAD-LEAV'D SHRUBBY GERMANDER. _Class and Order._ DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. _Generic Character._ _Cor._ labium superius (nullum) ultra basin 2-partitum, divaricatum ubi stamina. _Specific Character and Synonyms._