PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Vinca. 339 



Clematis. Cower. Epit. 694./. 



C. (laphnoides. Dod. Pempt. 405./. Lob. Ic. 635./. 



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



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

 tifully ■ also in several lanes in that parisli, undoubtedly wild. 

 Mr. Crowe. Abundant at Raleigh, Essex. Rev. U. B. Frartci 

 Near Rippon, Yorkshire. Rev. James Dalton. 



Perennial. May. 



Root creeping. Herb very smooth. Stems round, trailing j 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 witli double, more purple Jiowers, 

 well figured and described in Corner. Epit. 695. 



2. V. 7najor. Greater Periwinkle. 



Stems ascending. Leaves ovate, fringed. Flowers stalked. 



Segments of the calyx bristle-shaped, elongated. 

 V. major. Linn. Sp. PI. 304. mild. v. 1. 1233. Fl. Br. 2/0. Engl. 



Bot.v.S.f.5\4. Curt. Lond.fasc.4.t.l9. Hook. Scot. S2. Ehrh. 



Arb.\\2. 

 Pervinca n . 5 73 . Hall. Hist. v.\.246. 

 P. vulgaris latifolia, flore caeruleo. Garid. Prov. t.S\. 

 Clematis. Matth. Falgr.v.2. SO.i.f. 

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



894./ Dod. Pempt. 406./, 

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



In thickets and groves, especially on a wet soil. 



Perennial. Mo?/. 



Nearly t\yice 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. Cat. very narrow, mostly fringed witli 

 coarse hairs. Follicles unequal, filled with several large whitish 

 seeds, one above another. 



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