Was firft obferved by Ciusitus, between Medina Sodina in 
Andalufia and Gibraltar, and is common in other provinces of 
Spain, alfo about Algiers and on Mount Atlas. It climbs up 
trees, which it overwhelms. Although this plant is generally 
mentioned by the old botanical writers, all their figures and 
defcriptions are without exception copied from Criusius, who 
faw it in feed only. It is fully defcribed by DesronTaiNes 
in his Flora Atlantica. 
Our drawing was taken from a plant communicated by Mr. 
Loppicgs, cultivated in a pot, and kept in the greenhoufe ; 
but Puirie Mixer obferves, that it endured the hardeft 
winters of this country for forty years together in the open 
ground at the Phyfic Garden, Chelfea, and that it flowers — 
better than when treated more tenderly; in expofed fitua- — 
tions, however, it is apt to perifh. Is propagated by laying 
down the young fhoots in O&ober. Flowers in March and — 
April. Suppofed to: have been cultivated by Gerarp in 1596, 
but as he fays that he has found it in the {le of Wight, and in 
a wood by Waltham-Abbey, perhaps he miftook fome variety 
of CLemaris Vitalba for this fpecies, 
