¶ The Description.
1 BLew Bindweed bringeth forth long, tender, and winding branches, by which it climeth vpon things that stand neere vnto it, and foldeth it selfe about them with many turnings and windings, wrapping it selfe against the Sun, contrary to all other things whatsoeuer, that with their clasping tendrels do embrace things that stand neere vnto them; whereupon doe grow broad cornered leaues very like vnto those of Iuie, something rough and hairy, of an ouer∣worne russet greene colour: among which come forth most pleasant floures bell fashion, somthing cornered as are those of the common Bindweed, of a most shining azure colour tending to purple: which being past, there succeed round knobbed seed vessels, wherein is contained long blackish seed of the bignesse of a Tare, and like vnto those of the great hedge Bindweed. The root is thred∣dy, and perisheth at the first approchof Winter.
‡ 2 There are also kept in our gardens two other blew floured Bindweeds. The one a large and great plant, the other a lesser. The great sends vp many large and long winding branches, like those of the last described, and a little hairie: the leaues are large and roundish, ending in a sharpe point: the floures are as large as those of the great Bindweed, and in shape like them, but blew of colour, with fiue broad purplish veines equally distant each from other: and these floures com∣monly grow three neere together vpon three seuerall stalks some inch long, fastened to another