108 7 THE WOOLLY CLEMATIS. 
It is no doubt very near C. azurea, from which it differs in the leaves being coriaceous not 
thin, shaggy beneath with white hairs not finely silky, and cordate not ovate; in the flower-buds, 
young leaves, and peduncles being buried in wool, not subpubescent, and in the great size of the 
flowers, whose divisions are broader and more acute. 
There seems no reason to doubt that it is quite hardy ; and if so it will prove one. of the finest, 
if not the finest, climber our gardens yet possess, 
