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CLEMATIS RECTA 
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UPRIGHT, virgin's BOWER, 
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STNONTMJ, Flammula 
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Pharm, Edmh 
reda 
Baub. Pin. p. 3 
7 
J. Bauh. Hifi, vol it. p, j i 
Emac. p, 888. Park. Theat. p 
Flammula 
Clematis five Flammula furreda alba. 
Flammula Tovis furreda. Gerard, 
38 
Rait Hift. p. 621, fp, 4 
Clematis caule credo, foliis pinnatis ovato-laiiceolatis. 
Hal, Sttri. 
Helv, n. 
44 
Fh 
Auft, tab 
9 
Stoerck Lib ell, de Fl 
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tab 
I. 
Clafs Poljandria. 
Of 
Polygynia. Lin, Gen, Plant, 696. 
EfGen 
Ch. 
Cal, 
o. 
Petal 
a 4' 
6. 
Sem, caudata. 
Sp, Ck 
C. foliis pinnatis : foliolis ovato-Ianceolatis inte^errl|iiis 
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caule eredo, floribus pentapetalis tetrapetalifque. 
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THE root is perennial, white, and fibrous : the ftalk Is exe^ 
fcored, round, fmooth, branched towards the top, and rifes about two 
feet in height : the leaves are oppofite, and pinnated, the pinns are 
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placed in pairs, and terminated by an odd one ; they are all ovally 
lance-ihaped, acute, entire, fmooth, and veined. The flowers' ter 
minate the ftem and branches in irregular umbels : there is no calyx : 
the petals are four or five, of an oval fliape, and vv^hitifh colour: the 
filaments are numerous, ered, tapering, fhorter than the petals, and 
which are fcored on each fide : the eer 
terminated by the anther 
mina are many, roundifh, hairy, and fupport bearded flyles, of the 
length of the ftamina, and crowned with obtufe fligmata : the feeds 
are roundiili, compreffed, and attached to the flyles, which appear 
like long feathered tails; and hence the name, fem. caudata. 
This plant is a native of Hungary, Auflria, and France, and flowers 
from June till Auguft V it was firfl cultivated' in England by Gerard, 
previous to the year 1597, ^^^ ^^ ^^^ 
No. 
13 
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known to the 
Britiih 
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