CHAP. I. RANUNCULA CEE. CLEMATIS. 245 
after being cultivated in the garden at Kew, it found its way into most of the 
other botanic gardens, and into some nurseries. It is easily propagated by layers 
or cuttings ; and, when finally planted out, it is the better for having the prote¢- 
tion of a wall. North of York, it may be considered a frame or green-house 
plant, which it is in France and Germany. It is hardy about London, and in 
the botanic garden of Cambridge. 
§ iv. Anemoniflora. 
if 
Derivation, From the flowers being like those of the Anemdne sylvéstris L. 
Sect. Char, Peduneles axillary, 1-flowered, aggregate, not bearing an in- 
volucre. Carpel with a feathery tail. Leaves deciduous. 
& 19. C. montTa‘NA Ham. The Mountain Clematis. 
Identification. _C. montana Ham. MSS.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 9.; Wall. Pl. As. Rar.,3. p. 12.; Royle, 
Illustr. Bot. Himalaya, ¥. a 
nonymes. C. anemonifidra D. Don; Prod. Fl. Nepal., p. 192. ; G. Don’s Mill., 1. p. 9, 
ngraving. Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar., 3. p. 12. t. 217.; Swt. Br. Fl-Gard., 2. s. t. 253. ; and our figs. 
23. and 24. Fig. 23, is from the plant in the Hort. Soc. Garden, and jig. 24. from a specimen of 
that at Montreal, Kent. 
Spec. Char, Peduncles 1-flowered, not bracteated, several together. Leaves 
ternately parted, the segments oyate-oblong, acuminate, toothed, the teeth 
in the mode of incisions. Sepals elliptic-oblong, mucronulate, spreading. 
Himalayan Mountains (D. Don, in Sw, Br. F1.- : 
Gard., 2d series, t. 253.) Flowers white. May, in 
England. 1831. Height 15 ft. 
Description. A highly ornamental species. The 
plant is large and branching; the bark thick, ash- 
coloured, and deciduous. Leaves several together, 
upon footstalks 1 in. long; their segments, or leafy 
parts, pale green. Flowers numerous, about the size 
and form of those of Anemone sylvéstris Z., borne 
several together, each upon a separate, upright, 
slender peduncle, about 3in. long. Sepals 4, 1 in. 
long, pure white, faintly stained with pink outside 
at the base. Styles clothed with long white silky 
hairs ; from which it may be inferred that this spe- 
cies will have its fruits terminated with feathery tails, 
in a state of maturity. 
Geography, History, §c. Its native localities are 
given by Mr. Royle, in his Z/lustrations of the Natural 
History of the Himalayan Mountains, as “ Mus- 
sooree, and every where in the Himalayan Moun- 
tains, between 5000 ft. and 7000 ft. of elevation” 
above the level of the sea, where it flowers in April. In the climate of 
England, Mr. D. Don has stated that it “ proves to be quite hardy, and 
seems to flourish as well as on its native moun- 55 
tains.” He received flowering specimens of it nat 
in May, 1834, from Montreal, Kent, the seat th; 
of Earl Amherst. Dr, Buchanan, whose name 
was afterwards changed to Hamilton, originally 
collected specimens of this species at Chitlong, 
in the valley of Nepal; and from specimens de- 
rived from him, in Mr. Lambert’s herbarium, it 
was first described by De Candolle in his Systema, 
vol. i., published in 1818, Plants were soon after- 
wards raised from seeds in the garden of the 
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