Linnaeus, that we have been induced to regard it as a perfectly distinct species; in most points it agrees with Convolvulus Cneorum, but differs in having leaves much narrower, more pointed, and less silky.
The plant here represented has long been cultivated as a greenhouse plant in this country under the name of Convolvulus Cantabrica, but it differs so essentially from that plant, as figured and described by Prof.
It feeds on the bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) in July, and has a second brood in September.
We now ascended a neighbouring hill, on which were cultivated the Dioscorea alata, Convolvulus Batatus, Zea Mays, and Capsicum.
I may add that there are varieties of the sweet potato (Convolvulus batatas) which are suited for warmer, as well as for colder, climates.
To Miss Helen Convolvulusthen our hero paid his addresses.
On the verge of the dust the red pimpernel opened its flowers to the bright blue cloudless sky, and the lowly convolvulus grew thickly among the tall dusty bennets.
The clover dusty, the convolvulus dusty, the brambles and hawthorn, the small scattered elms all dusty, all longing for a shower or for a cool breeze.
Convolvulus Sepium is very commonly subject to the production of flower-buds from the axils of the floral leaves.
Below appeared a sheer drop of a hundred feet into a moat winding through thickets of heavy-scented convolvulus flowers to the waterways beyond.
As Heru was carried swiftly by she stretched her milk-white arms towards the prince and turned her face, lovely as a convolvulus flower even in its pallor, upon him.
Princess Heru, for so she was called, was resting one arm upon his knee at our approach and pulling a blue convolvulus bud to pieces--a charming picture of dainty idleness.
But then, sir," observed the girl as she sucked the honey out of the stalk of an azure convolvulus flower and threw the remains at a butterfly that sailed across the sunshine, "you know so little!
But in the convolvulus family, as in many others, these five petals have joined into a continuous rim or bowl, and the marks on the blossom where it was folded in the bud still answer to the five petals.
By descent it is a bind-weed, or wild convolvulus, and its blossoms are in the main miniature convolvulus blossoms still.
The convolvulus blossom in the bud is twisted or contorted round and round, part of the cup being folded inside, while the five joints of the corolla are folded outside, much after the fashion of an umbrella when rolled up.
It is the lesser dodder, a pretty clustering mass of tiny pale pink convolvulus blossoms.
A farmer would see in the convolvulus nothing but a useless weed; a cultivated eye sees in it just as much as its nature permits it to see.
Up one of the pillars of the veranda there climbed together a great ramping mass of blue convolvulus and an Ard's pillar; and the constricting plant was quietly intent on strangling the rose.
Sometimes the sacred convolvulus takes the place of the lotus.
Convolvulus Major, from the top of a tapering fir-pole, up which she had crept, and from which her velvet flowers hung suspended like purple gems.
But the Carnation put in her word: "What you say about the Convolvulus may be true enough, but it cannot apply to me.
Every wall is green with moss and gay with masses of convolvulus and nasturtium.
A pretty little maid with jet-black hair is cleaning some pink stuff on a great slab of stone, against a background of gray wall over which convolvulus and nasturtium are trailing; a string of white linen is suspended above her head.
But over the seaward walls of villa and chateau peep valerian and fig, and the path is coral-sprinkled with pimpernel and enamelled with convolvulus and borage and the hosts of smaller flowers.
But she flicked his promise aside as she flicked the convolvulus with her nail.
There was a warm dry earth-wall with heath and thyme and rest-harrow and convolvulus growing on it, and there we sat down.
In England we seldom grow it for ornament, but in France I have seen it used with excellent effect to cover a trellis-screen, mixed with the large blue Convolvulus major.
In glazed work grapes, convolvulus and thistle were used.
Then there is the so-called sweet-potato, which is the root of Convolvulus batatas used in China, Japan, and other tropical countries as a wholesome food.
There is for instance the Convolvulus jalapa and Convolvulus scammonia, both of which are extensively used in medicine; the former a South American plant and the latter a Syrian one.
From its resemblance to that beautiful convolvulus in the garden I should think it must be a smaller kind of that plant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "convolvulus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
