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* CLEMATIS coeriilea. 
Violet Clematis. 
POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RANUNCULACEZ. 
CLEMATIS. Suprd, vol. 2. fol. 97. 
$ II. Vrricenza. D. C. prodr. 1. 8. 
C. cerulea ; patentim pilosa, foliis ternatis segmentis ovatis acutis integerrimis, 
pedunculis unifloris, sepalis sex oblongo-lanceolatis acutis membranaceis 
margine distantibus. 
C. coerulea grandiflora. Hort. 
This is a charming addition to the climbers cultivated in 
England; it has a most graceful mode of growth, and the 
large violet flowers, with deep purple stamens, are more 
ornamental than those of any species of Clematis yet in 
this country. 
It is nearly related to C. florida, from which it differs not 
only in the cologħ delicaev, and transparency of its blossoms, 
but also in its leaves being only once ternate, and in the 
sepals not touching and overlapping each other at the edges. 
. The drawing was made last October, from a plant be- 
longing to Messrs. Lowe and Co. of Clapton, to tata * 
medal had been awarded for it at one of the meetings of the 
Horticultural Society in Regent Street. 
Messrs. Lowe and Co. inform me, that it is, like C. 
florida, a native of Japan, from which country 1t - E 
duced to the European gardens by Dr. Van Siebold, kam 
they have no doubt that it will prove as hardy as tha 
* See folio 1234. 
