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* CLEMATIS florida; var. bicolor 



Siebold's Clematis. 



POLYANDRIA POLYGYRIA. 

 Nat. ord. RaNUNCULACEjE. 



CLEMATIS. Bot. Reg. vol. Q.fol. 97. 



C. florida; pedunculis unifloris folio longioribus, foliis ternatim decompositis, 

 segmentis ovatis acutis integerrimis, sepalis ovali-lanceolatis acuminatis. 

 DC. st/st. 1. 160. 



C. florida. Thunh. fl. jap. 240. Jacq. hort. sch'Onb. 3. 57. t. 357. Bot. 

 Repos. t. 402. Bot. mag. t. 834. 



Var. bicolor ; staminibus sterilibus linearibus v. lineari lanceolatis atropurpureis. 



C. Sieboldi. Hort. 



This very handsome plant is certainly a mere variety of 

 C. florida, from which it differs principally in the clearness 

 and brightness of colour of the flowers, and in being of rather 

 more robust growth. It is about as hardy as that species, 

 and one of the very best climbing plants that have been in- 

 troduced for many years. Trained to some well contrived 

 basket work, fixed upon a pot, and protected by a green- 

 house from rain and other causes likely to dim its colours, it 

 ought to form one of the most striking show-plants ever seen. 



The last winter has killed it to the ground, or perhaps 

 entirely destroyed it. 



It grows freely in any good loamy soil, flowers nearly all 

 the summer, and may be increased either by layers or 

 cuttings, but rather slowly. 



The drawing was made in the nursery of Messrs. Lowe 

 and Co. of Clapton, in July 1837. 



* See Bot. Reg. fol. 1234. 



