Glasnevin, considers the species hardy, a free bloomer, and as 
contrasting well with C. montana, which is beautifully in flower 
in company with it in May, 1854. 
Dzsor. Climbing. Stems and branches slender, woody, stri- 
ated, slightly hairy, obscurely striated. Leaves from a nodus, and 
clustered or subverticillate, ternately trisected, on long pedicels, 
each leaflet or segment petiolate, ovate, much acuminated, coarsely 
serrated, reticulately veined, bifid or (especially the side leaflets) 
trifid, glabrous. Peduncles from the same nodus as the leaves, 
3-4 inches long, fascicled, spreading, hairy, single-flowered. 
Flower drooping, large, moneecious (Edgew.). Sepals large, erecto- 
patent, so as to form a campanulate perianth, each ovato-acumi- 
nate, three-nerved, slightly coriaceous, chocolate-coloured, the edge 
white or cream-coloured, and downy. Stamens numerous, erect, 
flattened, little more than half the length of the perianth. Fi/a- 
ments broad, lanceolate, membranaceous, hairy and ciliated, bent 
at the base. Anther oblong, terminal, basi-fixed, opening in- 
trorsely, glabrous within, the back with a dense tuft of hairs. 
Pistils several, erect. Ovary ovate, glabrous or bearded on the 
under side only. Style long, subulate, villous except at the 
apex, which is slightly recurved and terminated with the simple, 
obtuse stigma. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil :-—magnified. 
