point with confidence to any garden plant which well agrees 
with the account in the Botanical Magazine. There is a 
pale flowered species in cultivation which may be it, but if 
so, the original figure is little trustworthy. 
The last of these perplexed species is C. crispa. The 
authority for the name, and its origin, are to be found in the 
“ Hortus Elthamenis,” where it is figured and well described 
by Dillenius under the name of C. flore crispo. It has the 
narrow upper leaves ascribed to C. cylindrica, some 3-lobed 
leaflets among the lower parts of the branches, and flowers as 
large as those of the latter species, pale purple, slightly 
sweet-scented, and much contracted before the sepals roll 
backward, so that it has a conical tube; or as Dillenius well 
puts it, the flowers are ** oblongi, tubulosi, ad basim crassiores, 
medium versus angustiores et veluti clausi.” Add to which 
it has the short-tailed mucronate fruit of C. campaniflora. 
It was raised in Sherard's garden from seeds obtained from 
Carolina. That it is a very peculiar species there can be no 
doubt, and upon Dillenius's figure and description full 
reliance may evidently be placed. Nevertheless a bad figure 
of a totally different plant, having all the appearance of 
Clematis reticulata, was produced for it in the Botanical Maga- 
zine, and copied into Loudon’s Arboretum ; and Torrey and 
Gray describe it as a plant with flowers a third smaller than 
in C. Viorna, and bright purple ; yet they quote to C. Viorna 
itself the C. cordata of the Botanical Magazine, which is not 
distinguishable from the false crispa of the same work ; and 
the latter is quoted by them to C. crispa, although it has pale 
pink flowers, much larger than in Viorna, and of the same 
size as those of the false synonym of C. Viorna above referred 
to. And then in their supplement they declare that Elliott's 
C. crispa is not crispa at all, but C. cylindrica. In the midst 
of all this confusion there is nothing for us to do but to go 
back to the original source of the name, and to determine 
what Sherard's plant really was, leaving other critics to settle 
the modern synonyms if they can. 
We entertain no doubt that the species now produced is 
that of Dillenius, with whose account it exactly agrees. The 
sweet-scented flowers, pale purple, and contracted in the 
middle, the crisp edge of the sepals, the long, narrow, upper 
