340 PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Vine* 



Clematis. Camer. Epit. 094./. 



C. daphnoides. Dod. Pempt. 405./. Lob. Ic. 635./. 



In bushy places, and about hedges and banks, but rare. 



By Honingham church, Norfolk, on a bank facing the south, plen- 

 tifully ; also in several lanes in that parish, undoubtedly wild. 

 Mr. Crowe. Abundant at Raleigh, Essex. Rev. R. B. Francis. 

 Near Rippon, Yorkshire. Rev. James Dalton. 



Perennial. May. 



Root creeping. Herb very smooth. Stems round, trailing; the 

 flowering branches simple, leafy, erect. Leaves dark shining 

 green, on short stalks, opposite, without stipulas. Fl. solitary, 

 an inch wide, of a fine violet blue. Fruit scarcely seen in En- 

 gland. There is a white-flowered variety in gardens, having va- 

 riegated leaves ; and another with double, more purple Jlowers, 

 well figured and described in Camer. Epit. 695. 



2. V. major. Greater Periwinkle. 



Stems ascending. Leaves ovate, fringed. Flowers stalked. 

 Segments of the calyx bristle-shaped, elongated. 



V. major. Linn. Sp. PL 304. Wil1d.v. 1.1233. Fl.Br.270. Engl. 



Bot. v. 8. t. 514. Curt. Lond.fasc. 4. t. 19. Hook. Scot. 82. 



Ehrh. Arb. 112. 

 Pervinca n. 573. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 246. 

 P. vulgaris latifolia, flore ceeruleo. Garid. Prov. t.8\. 

 Clematis. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 305./. 

 C. daphnoides major. Bauh. Pin. 302. Raii Syn. 268. Ger. Em. 



894./. Dod. Pempt. 406./. 

 C. sive Pervinca major. Lob. Ic. 636./. 

 In thickets and groves, especially on a wet soil. 

 Perennial. May. 

 Nearly twice as large, in every part, as the former. Stems branched, 



ascending while in flower ; afterwards procumbent, and taking 



root near the extremity. Leaves fringed with short rigid hairs. 



Fl. of a lighter blue. Cal. very narrow, mostly fringed with 



coarse hairs. Follicles unequal, filled with several large whitish 



seeds, one above another. 



