Botanical Magazine under the name of C. crispa, but so bad 
a representation as to be unworthy of citation, and certainly 
having nothing to do with C. crispa. Sweet fancied it to be 
a new species, and called it C. Simsü, in which he is followed 
by Loudon. Sir Wm. Hooker refers it to C. reticulata, and 
he is doubtless right. 
This reticulata originated with Walter, whose authentic 
specimen was examined by Dr. Asa Gray, and the definition 
of the latter botanist, in the “ Flora of North America,” may 
be accepted as expressing the real character of the species. 
Taken along with Elliott's description of C. reticulata, which 
Torrey and Gray quote as a true synonym, as it surely is, it 
is clear that the C. reticulata is a Texan plant, in our her- 
barium, remarkable for its netted leaves, and pretty well re- 
presented in the Botanical Magazine. Yet the plant figured 
under the name of C. reticulata, in Watson's Dendrologia 
Britannica, t. 72, has no resemblance to the real plant, but 
is one of the garden varieties of C. Viticella. It is, there- 
fore, unfortunate that Mr. Loudon should have selected that 
figure to represent C. reticulata, at the same time copying 
Sims’s figure of the real reticulata for C. Stmsiì. 
The Clematis cylindrica of the Botanical Magazine is a 
puzzle. It has long cylindrical flowers, with a pale narrow 
flat edge, a tapering point, and an intensely purple colour, 
and with very narrow linear lanceolate leaves. According to . 
Dr. Sims, it is the same as the false Viorna, figured in the 
Botanist's Repository, and above referred to; but that plant 
is surely what is called C. Hendersonii in the gardens, with 
flowers spreading flat, and very broad leaves, the uppermost 
of which are simple. We must, therefore, leave the false 
Viorna out of consideration. Torrey and Gray say, that C. 
cylindrica is the same as what Elliott calls crispa, but it agrees 
with that author's description in little of importance except 
its bright purple flowers ; besides, he has a Cl. cylindrica as 
well, and that cylindrica is evidently the plant of the Botanical 
Magazine. DeCandolle referred to C. cylindrica the Cl. 
divaricata of Jacquin's Eclogues, but that plant has very 
short flower-stalks, smaller and paler flowers, and is an erect, 
or suberect species. It can have nothing to do with the 
scrambling C. cylindrica. Upon the whole, we are unable to 
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