Tas. 6574, 
CLEMATIS RETICULATA. — 
Native of the Southern United States. 
Nat. Ord. RanuncuLacem.—Tribe CLEMATIDER. 
Genus Crematis, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 3.) 
Ciematis reticulata; caule gracile scandente ramoso glabro, ramulis gracillimis 
sericeo-pubescentibus v. glabratis, foliis coriaceis gracile petiolatis superioribus 
integris ellipticis v. elliptico-lanceolatis integerrimis, inferioribus pinnatis 7-9- 
foliolatis, foliolis multiformibus integris v. irregulariter paucilobatis obtusis, 
basi seepissime cuneatis, nervis nervulisque utrinque prominentibus creberrime 
reticulatis, floribus solitariis longe pedunculatis, perianthio ovoideo sericeo, 
sepalis ovato-lanceolatis erectis apicibus acutis recurvis crasse coriaceis sulcatis 
marginibus incrassatis non vittatis, acheniorum caudis elongatis plumosis 
persistentibus. 
C. reticulata, Walt. Flor. Carolin. p. 156; Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. i. p. 318; 
DC. Syst. vol.i. p. 157; Prodr. vol.i. p.7; Torr, and Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol.i. 
pp- 10, 658; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub. tab. 60; Engelm. and Gray, Plant 
Lindh. p. 3; Chapm. Fl. 8. U. States, p.4; S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. N. Am 
Bot. p. 11. 
Dr. Lindley, writing in 1846, remarks under Clematis 
crispa, “The plants cultivated in our Gardens under the 
names of Clematis viorna, crispa, reticulata, cylindrica, 
rosea, &c., present a scene of confusion such as is rare 
among Botanical compilations ;” and he proceeds to devote 
four pages to unravelling the synonymy and defining the 
characters of the first four of these species. Not success- 
fully, however, for he refers the C.crispa of this work 
(Tab. 1892) to the present plant, though the excellent 
figure there given differs not in any particular from that of 
his own OC. crispa, and differs wholly from C. reticulata, 
both in the foliage and in having very broad undulate 
margins of the sepals. : 
Clematis reticulata ranges in the Southern United States 
east of the Mississippi, from South Carolina to Florida. 
The specimen here figured is from a plant grown at Kew 
in the open border, received from Messrs. Rodger McLelland 
AuGuST Ist, 1881. 
