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CLEMATIS montana. 
Mountain Clematis. 
POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RANUNCULACE X. 
CLEMATIS. Botanical Register, vol. 23. fol. 1955. 
$ 1. Flammula. 
Involucrum 0. Petala 0. Carpellorum cauda longe, barbato-plumose. Em- 
bryonis in semine cotyledones distantes. 
C. montana; pedunculis 1-floris, involucro nullo, foliis ternati-sectis segmen- 
tis oblongis acuminatis subtrifidis grossé serratis. DeCand. syst. 1. 164. 
prodr. 1.9. 
C. anemoniflora. Don Prodr. Jf. nep. 192. fide Royle. 
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According to Dr. Royle, Clematis grata from its fra- 
stance, and C. montana from the showy nature of its garlands 
of numerous white rose-like flowers, are the most desirable of 
the Himalayan species of this charming genus as ornamental 
plants. Certainly nothing can well be more beautiful than 
the latter, of which a figure is now given; for in the month 
of May, or even in April, on the south coast of England, it is 
one mass of the most brilliant snow-white blossoms tinged 
with a delicate pink. 
It is a species of the Flammula section, and not at all re- 
lated to that called Cheiropsis, in which by some mistake it 
was stationed by DeCandolle. 
It is a hardy climber, flowering in May, and requiring 
the same treatment as the other hardy kinds of Clematis. 
It strikes freely from cuttings of the half-ripe wood, and 
grows very rapidly if planted in any strong rich soil. It is 
' therefore well adapted for covering arbours, the flowers being 
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