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Clematis Viticella. Purple Virgin's- 



Bower. 



Oafs and Order. 



PoLYANDRlA PoLYGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Cal. o. Petala 4 — 6. Se?nina caudata. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



CLEMATIS Viticella ; foliis compofitis decompofitifque : 



foliolis ovatis fublobatis integerrimis. Linn. Sp. 



PI. 765. Hort. Cliff. 225. Mart. Mill. Dm. 



art. 2. 

 CLEMATIS foliis compofitis decompofitifque: foliolis ovatis 



fublobatis integerrimis, petalis obovatis patenti- 



bus. Willd. Sp. PL 

 CLEMATIT1S c«erulea vel purpurea repens. Baub. Ptn. 3°°- 

 CLEMAT1TIS altera. Cluf. Htft. 1. p. 122. quoad figurant, 



defcriptio nimis manca cuidam alteri pcrttnere 



videtur. 

 CLEMATITIS peregrina caerulea five rubra. Ger. etnac. 



887. /. 1. & 2. Rait Hijl. p. 622. 



The Clematis Viticella is a native of Spain and Italy* and 

 bears the cold of our winters very well ; is a very ornament* 

 climber, and its flowers fweet-fcented. Though well known 

 to our older Botanifts, and cultivated as long ago as the year 

 1569, by Mr. Hugh Morgan,* it is by no means common: 

 the double variety is more fo ; but this in our opinion, thoug 

 preferred by Miller, is not fo handfome as either of the 

 fingle red or purple varieties, both of which grow in the 

 greateft perfeaion at the nurfery of Meffrs. Whitley & Co. 

 Old-Brompton, where our figure was taken laft year. 



It flowers in June and July. Is propagated either by feeds, 

 which it fometimes produces in this country, or by laying the 

 young fhoots down early in the Spring or at the latter-end o 

 July, the mode of doing which is fully detailed in Martin s 

 Miller's Dictionary; but Mr. Whitley prefers the former 

 time, to that recommended by Miller. 



* Hort. Kew. 



