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JPOMCEA QUAMOCLIT, WlNGED
IPOMCEA.
Clafs and Order.
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Generic Chamber.
Corolla infundibuliformis. Stigma capitato-glqbofum, Capf,
3-locularis.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
IPOMCEA Quamocltt foliis pinnatifidis linearibus, floribus
fubfolitariis. Linn. Syft. Vegetal, ed. 1 4. Murr,
f. 204. Ait. Kew. V. i, />. 215.
OUAMOCLIT /Jafminum Americanum. Cluf. Poflh. 9.
CONVOLVULUS tenuifolius Americanus. The red BelU
flower of America. Park, farad, f. 358. 3.
In a former number of this work, we gave a figure of the
Scarlet Ipomcea, which every one pofleffing a garden, at lealt
in the more fouthern parts of this kingdom, might gratify
themfelves with a fight of, it being hardy enough to flower
and ripen its feeds in the open border; but the prefent fpecies,
an annual alfo, and equally beautiful, with greater fingularit/
of foliage, can be brought to perfection only m the ftove or
hot-houfe. . . .
Its feeds fhould be fown early in the fpringi two or three ir:
a fmall pot ; when the plants are fo far advanced as to fhew
a difpofition to climb, they mould be removed with a ball of
earth into a middle-fized' pot, in which one, two, or three
flicks, four or five feet high ftould be ftuck, fur the plants to
climb up ; in the months of June and July they will flower, and
ripe feed will be produced in September.
This elegant fpecies, a native of both the Indies, was culti
vated here by PARKINSON, who minutely defcribes it in h:s
Parad terr. when fpeaking of the feed, he obferves, " with -i'
« it will feldom come to flower, becaufe our cold nights and
*< frofts come fo foone, before it cannot have comfort enoug"1
*' qf the fun to ripen it,"
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