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style terminating in a little white feathery 
process when the seed ripens : the plant at 
that time appears covered with little tufts of 
cotton. In its native habitats this plant flow- 
ers in July and August; but in Britain it TX 4 
continues in flower from July to October. Ai 
From the rapidity of its growth, it will in 2 
four or five years cover a very large space of é \ 
wall, roof, or bower. Its herbage is con- \ 
sidered less acrid than that of any other of = 
the European species, notwithstanding its -_. 
name of Flammula. (Dec. Syst.) Za \\ 
Geography. This well-known species 
seems confined to the middle and south of 
Europe and to the north of Africa. It is 
found in the south of France in hedges, 
and in waste bushy places ; in Greece, Italy, e, ae 
Spain, and Portugal (see p. 132. and p. 164.), a 
and in all these countries, generally in low 4 
situations, not far from the sea, and in soil’ 9 
more or less calcareous. 
History and Use. C. Flammula appears 
to have been first recorded by Dodonezus, 
in his Stirpium Historie Pemptades, in 1585; 
it was recognised by Matthiolus and L’ Obel, 
and cultivated by Gerard in 1597; and it 
is now generally grown in gardens throughout Europe and North America, 
. for covering bowers, garden-houses, trellis-work, and naked walls; for which 
purposes it is well adapted from its rapid growth, its intense fragrance when 
in flower, and its tufted cottony masses when in seed. 
Statistics. Plants may be had in all the European nurseries : about London, 
of the smallest size, at about 5s. per hundred, or 6d. for a single strong plant ; 
at Bollwyller, at from 6 francs to 8 francs the hundred, or about half a france 
a plant ; and at New York, for 30 cents per plant. 
R 2. C. on1ENTA‘LIS ZL. The Oriental Clematis. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 765.; Willd. Sp., 2. 1289.; Lam. Dict, Enc., 2. p. 42.; Hayne Dend., 119. ; 
Dec. Prod., 1. p. 3.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 4 
Synonymes. Flammula scandens apii folio glauco, Dill. Elth., 144.; C. flava Moench. Meth., 296. ; 
the nae, or yellow-flowered, Virgin’s Bower ; Clematite orientale, F7.; Morgenlindische Wald- 
rebe, Ger. 
Engravings. Dill. Elth., t. 119. f. 145. : and our fig. 10. 
Spec. Char. Leavespinnate; leafletssmooth wedge- 
shaped, with three toothed pointed lobes. (Don’s 
Muill.,i. p. 4.) Flowers greenish yellow, slightly 
tinged with russet, sweet-scented. Aug. Sept. 
1731. Height 15 ft. 
Description. The general magnitude of this 
species resembles that of C. Flammula, from which 
it differs, in its ulterior branches being more per- 
sistently ligneous, though the main stem in old 
plants is seldom seen so thick as that of C. Flam- 
mula. It is also distinguished from the latter 
species by throwing up suckers freely, which the 
other does not. Its leaflets are glaucous, flat, 
large as compared with those of C. Flammula, and 
it does not produce flowers so profusely as that 
species; the flowers are yellowish, and not so 
strongly scented; and the carpels are dissimilar, 
though still cottony in appearance when the seed 
is ripe. 
