[PrarE 94.] 
THE WOOLLY CLEMATIS. 
(CLEMATIS LANUGINOSA.) 
gg 
A very fine large-flowered Hardy Climber, from CHINA, belonging to the Order of CROWFOOTS. 
Specific Character. 
THE WOOLLY CLEMATIS, Leaves simple and ternate; | CLEMATIS ZANUGINOSA (VITICELLZE) ; folis sim- 
leaflets coriaceous, cordate, acuminate, shaggy on the plicibus ternatisque, foliolis coriaceis cordatis acuminatis 
underside as are the footstalks. Buds, peduncles, and subtüs petiolisque villosis, alabastris pedunculis foliisque 
young leaves buried in wool. Sepals six, ovate, acuminate, junioribus lanatis, sepalis 6 ovati inatis patentissimi 
spreading flat. 
Tus magnificent, plant flowered last spring in the nursery of Messrs. Standish and Noble of 
Bagshot, who received it from Mr. Fortune. We have a wild specimen from that enterprising 
traveller, marked “Hills of Chekiang, July, 1850,” and he has also favoured us with the following 
memorandum concerning it :— 
“This pretty species was discovered at a place called Tein-tung, near the city of Ningpo. It 
is there wild on the hill sides, and generally plants itself in light stony soil near the roots of dwarf 
shrubs whose stems furnish it with support as it grows. Before the flowering season arrives 
it has reached the top of the brushwood, and its fine star-shaped azure blossoms are then seen 
from a considerable distance rearing themselves proudly above the shrubs to which it had clung 
for support during its growth. In this state it is most attractive, and well repays any one who 
is bold enough to scramble through the brushwood to get a nearer view. 
“The flowers of this species are much larger and more hairy than those of the Japanese 
C. azurea grandiflora, to which it bears some resemblance. It is no doubt equally hardy, and 
perhaps more so. As a neat pot-climber for the greenhouse it will be much prized. The situations 
and soil in which it is found wild will point out the true mode of managing it in our gardens.” 
VOL, Il. 
