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6 cells, and 6 valves, with double partitions from their 

 inflexed margins. Seeds numerous in each cell, depress- 

 ed, horizontal, lying over each other, triangular, with a 

 dilated or thickened margin ; " albumen heart-shaped." 

 Gccrtner ; " embrijo certainly proving dicotyledonous in 

 germination." Jiissieu. 

 Perennial, herbaceous or shrubby, erect, or more generally 

 climbing. Leaves alternate, stalked, simple, very seldom 

 lobed, usually heartshaped. FL axillary, stalked. The 

 analogy of^ Asa rum, v. 2. 242, must justify us in calling 

 a call/a: what Linnaeus and others have taken for a corolla. 



1. A. Clematitis. Common Birth wort. 



Leaves heartshaped. Stem erect. Flowers affffresate, up- 

 right. Calyx unilateral. 



A. Clematitis. Linn. Sp. PL 1364. Willd. v. 4. 1 63. FI. Br. 947. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 6. t. 398. fVilld. suppl. t. 238. MUl. Illustr. t. 7b. 

 Hook. Loud. t. 149. Bicks. Dr. PL 14. Bull. Fr. t. 39. FL Dan. 

 t. 1235. Lob. Ic.607.f. 



A. n. 1029. IlalL Hist. v. 1. 240. 



A. Clematitis recta. Bauh. Pin. 307. MilL Ic.34, L5l.f. \. 



A. Clematitis vulgaris. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 71./. 



A. multiflora. Riv. Monop. Irr. t. 116. 



A. longa. rrag.Hist.\78.f. Matt/i. Falgr. v. 2.13. f. Dalech. 

 Hist. 977./. 



A. longa vulgaris. Camer. Epit. 421./ BasL Hort. Eyst. ccstiv. 

 ord.4.t.3.f.2. 



A. rotunda. FucJis. Hist. 90 / 



A. Saracenica. Ger. Em. 847./ Dalech. Hist. 979. 



In woods, thickets, and especially among the ruins of nunneries. 



In a wood two miles from Thorndon Essex; also in Cambridge- 

 shire. Bldcksfone. Near Maidstone, and in other parts of KtMit. 

 Hnds. At Gotistovv nunnery. Sibt/i. Sturston, near Diss. Mr. 

 Woodward. Carrow abbey, near Norwich. Rev. Dr. iSutton. 

 Kcncot, Oxfordsliire. Bishop c>f Carlisle. 



Perennial. Juhj, Augiist. 



Roots creeping deej) in the ground, long, slender, difficult of rxtir- 

 ])ation. Herb smooth, bright green. Stems about 2 feet high, 

 upright, zigzag, not climbing, round, leafy, striated, unhraruh- 

 ed. Leaves rather coriaceous, without sUpulas, heartshaped 

 with a wide space at the base, entire, with pcdate ribs. 77. 

 several from the bosom of each leaf, on simple stalks, erect, 

 pale yellow, or bulV-colourcd, witliout scent, scarcely perfecting 

 any /r?//7, except by the assistance of some small insect; see 

 Introd. to Botany, rd. 5. 273. 



