Is not the plant from whence the Ladanum of the shops is produced, though affording in warmer countries than ours a similar gum, hence its name of ladanifera is not strictly proper.
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Convolvulus Purpureus. Purple Bindweed, or Convolvulus Major.
Class and Order.
Pentandria Monogynia.
Generic Character.
Corolla campanulata, plicata. Stigmata 2. Capsula 2-locularis; loculis dispermis.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
CONVOLVULUS purpureus foliis cordatis indivisis, fructibus cernuis, pedicellis incrassatis. Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 200.