CHAP. I. RANUNCULA‘CEA. CLE’MATIS. 243 
Geography, §c. Found in Portugal in hedges, more especially on the 
road from Coimbra to Oporto. It appears to have been cultivated in 
England since 1810. It is a free grower and flowerer, though not so 
ornamental as C. Viticélla. It is in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, and 
in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges. Price, in London, Is. 6d.; at 
Bollwyller, 1 franc 50 cents ; at New York, ?. 
4 16. C.cri’spa L. The curled-sepaled Clematis. 
Identification. Lin. Sp.,765.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 9.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 9.; Thunb. Fl. Jap., 239. 
Synonyme. C. fldre crispo Dil. Elth. 
Engravings. Dil. Elth., 1. t. 73. fig. 84.; Bot. Mag., 1982. ; E. of Pl., 7975. ; and our fig. 21. 
Spec. Char. Peduncles 1-flowered, shorter than the leaves. Leaves entire, 
3-lobed, or ternate, very acute. Sepals connivent at the base, but reflexed 
and spreading at the apex. (Don’s Mill.,i. p. 9.) North America. Flowers 
purple. July to September. 1726. Height 3 ft. 
Description. The flowers of this species are pretty, but 
perhaps never produced in sufficient quantity to render 
it highly decorative; though it is very interesting, both 
in its foliage and in its flowers. The flower is of a pale 
purple colour; the sepals having their bases approximated 
so as to form a tube, and their tips spread or reflexed ; 
these are also wavedly crisped with transverse wrinkles. 
The stems are weak, and do not generally rise higher than 
3 ft. or 4 ft. 
Geography. Found in Virginia and Carolina, in hedges and among bushes 
on the banks of rivers. It is also said to be a native of Florida and of Japan. 
It was cultivated by Miller in 1726, and in the Eltham Garden about the 
same time. The plants frequently die down to the ground, so that they re- 
quire to be treated more as herbaceous than ligneous. The species is in most 
botanic gardens, and in some nurseries. Price, in London, ? 3s. 6d.; at Boll- 
wyller,?; and in New York, 25 cents. 
§ ill, Cheirdpsis Dec. 
Derivation. From cheir, the hand, and opsts, resemblance ; in allusion to the form of the bracteas, 
Sect. Char. Involucre in the form of a calyx, from two joined bracteas situ- 
ated at the top of the peduncle just under the flower. Tails of pericarps 
bearded.—Climbing or rambling shrubs, with simple or ternate leaves. ( Don’s 
Miil.,i. p. 9.) The old petioles persistent, and the new leaves and the 
peduncles produced in clusters from the axils of these. (Dec. Syst., i. 162.) 
Evergreen. 
& 17. C.cirrno‘sa L, The tendriled-petioled Clematis. 
Identification. Lin. Sp.,'766.; Willd. Sp., 2. 1827. ; Lamarck Dict. Ency., 2. 43,; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 9. 5 
Don’s Mill., cP 9. 
8 es. Atragene cirrhdsa Pers. Syn., 2. p. 98.; Traveller’s Joy of Candia, and Spanish Tra- 
veller’s JOY: Johnson’s Gerard; Spanish wild Climber Parkinson; the evergreen clematis; Cle- 
matite & Vrilles, Clematite toujours verte (Bon Jard.), Fr.; einfachblattrige (simple-leaved) Wald- 
rebe, Ger. 
Derivations. The word cirrhdsa, which means cirrhose, or tendriled, is applied to this species from 
the peculiarly ny and tendril-like action of its petioles, which retain their hold even after the 
leaflets have fallen. The French word Vrilles signifies tendrils ; and the German word einfach al- 
ludes to its comparatively simple leaves. 
Bngravines. C. cirrhdsa L., Smith’s Flor.-Gr.,517.; C. c. 2 pedicellata Dec., Bot. Mag., t. 1070.; and 
our fig. 22. 
Spec. Char. Peduncles 1-flowered, with an involucre. Leaves ovate, some- 
what cordate, toothed, in fascicles. (Don’s Mill.,i. p.9.) Evergreen. Flowers 
whitish. March, April. 1596. Height 10 ft. 
Variety and its Synonymes. 
& ©. c. 2 pedicellata Dec. Pediceled-flowered tendriled Clematis.— The 
chief feature distinctive of this variety from C. cirrhdsa is, that the 
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