Ipom&oeliga Quamoclit Winged Leav'd Ipom&oeliga

<p><em>Class and Order.</em></p>

<p>Pentandria Monogynia.</p>

<p><em>Generic Character.</em></p>

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<p><em>Corolla</em> infundibuliformis. <em>Stigma</em> capitato-globosum. <em>Caps.</em> 3-locularis. </p>

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<p><em>Specific Character and Synonyms.</em></p>

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<p>IPOM&OElig;A <em>Quamoclit</em> foliis pinnatifidis linearibus, floribus subsolitariis. <em>Linn, Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14.</em> <em>Murr. p. 204.</em> <em>Ait. Kew. v. 1. p. 215.</em></p>

<p>QUAMOCLIT <em>s</em> Jasminum Americanum. <em>Clus. Posth. 9.</em></p>

<p>CONVOLVULUS tenuifolius Americanus. The red Bellflower of America. <em>Park. Parad. p. 358. 3.</em> </p>

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<p>In a former number of this work, we gave a figure of the Scarlet Ipom&oelig;a, 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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>This elegant species, a native of both the Indies, was cultivated here by Parkinson, who minutely describes it in his <em>Parad terr.</em> when speaking of the seed, he observes, &quot;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.&quot;</p>