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CHAP. I. RANUNCULA CE. CLE/MATIS. 239 
Geography, History, §c. Found in North America, on woody hills in Caro- 
lina and Virginia. It was sent to England by Banister, from the latter country, 
in 1680, and was cultivated by Sherard in 1732; afterwards by Miller; and it 
is now to be found in the principal botanic gardens, and in many nurseries. 
As it does not grow to a great height (seldom exceeding 10 ft.), it is most or- 
namental as a single plant, trained to a rod or to a wire frame. As its branches 
are not very decidedly ligneous or persistent, but consist mostly of annual 
shoots from a suffruticose base, and are not much branched, the plant does not 
exhibit a bushy head. As ligneous branches do not abound to facilitate the 
propagation of it by layers, seeds are the readier means, and these are some- 
times plentifully produced, and grow without difficulty. The sowing of them as 
soon as ripe is advantageous to their vegetating in the ensuing spring. A plant 
of this species, with shoots reaching to the height of 10 ft., and studded with its 
pendulous peculiarly formed flowers (peculiar for a clematis), more or less pro- 
jected on their rather rigid peduncles, is an interesting object. Plants, in the 
London nurseries, cost Is. 6d.; at Bollwyller, 2 francs ; and at New York, 50 
cents. 
& 10. C. cyxi’nprRiIca Sims. The cylindrical-fowered Clematis. 
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Identification. Sims, in Bot. Mag., t. 1160.; Ait., in Hort. Kew., 2d edit., 3. p. 343.; Pursh, in Fl. 
Bor. Amer., 2. p. 385. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p.7.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 8. 
Synonymes. C. ag m., Michx.; C. Viérna Andr., in Bot. Rep.; C.divaricata Jacg.; the long- 
flowered Virgin’s Bower; Clematite  longues Fleurs, Fr. 
Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 1160.; Bot. Rep., t. 71.; Jacq. f. Ecl., 1. p. 51. t. 33. ; and our fig. 15. 
Spec. Char. Peduncles 1-flowered. Sepals thin, acuminated, reflexed at the 
apex, with wavy margins. Leaves slender, pinnate; leaflets stalked, ovate 
or oblong, middle one sometimes trifid, floral ones entire. (Don’s Miller, 
i. p. 8.) Flowers large, pale purplish blue. July, Aug. 1802. Height 4 ft. 
Description. De Candolle has described this 
in his Systema from a dried specimen, and without 
any Cs puern with it in a living state. He has 
deemed it related to C. Vidérna, reticulata, and 
crispa, and discriminated it from these. C. cylin- 
drica, he says, differs from C. Vidérna, in all the 
segments of its leaves being entire, not usually 
trifid; in the flowers being blue, and twice the 
size of those of C. Viorna (in this they are of 
a reddish lilac, pale within); in the sepals being 
not leathery, but somewhat of the consistence of 
paper, with the margin waved ; the ovaries 12-15, 
not 25-30. C. cylindrica differs from C. reticulata 
in its leaves being in consistence papery, not 
leathery ; scarcely veined, not reticulately veined, 
and in other points. C. cylindrica closely re- 
sembles C. crispa in habit and mode of flower- 
ing, but differs from it in its sepals being waved 
in the margin, not rolled backwards ; in its larger 
flowers, and especially in its carpels having long 
bearded tails, and not naked ones. C. Vidrna 
and cylindrica, seen together in a living state, are 
very dissimilar in appearance. C. Vidrna has 
vigorous long branches and reddish flowers, which < 
are acorn-like in figure, except that they have a + 
spreading mouth ; there is also obvious dissimilarity in the foliage and shoots, 
C. cylindrica being almost herbaceous. 
Geography, History, Use, §c. Found in North America, in Pennsylvania, 
Carolina, and Virginia. It was discovered by Michaux, and by him sent to 
Europe, where it may be found in several botanic gardens, and in some nur- 
series. Plants, in London, cost 2s. 6d. each; at Bollwyller, ?; and at New York, 
50 cents. 
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