312 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
HYBRIDS AND CROSSES OF CLEMATIS. 
By Monsieur F’. Moret. 
THE present constitutes a simple report ot hybridising experiments which 
I have made and the results obtained. 
CLEMATIS COCCINEA X C. PrrcHERI.—The first attempts to cross these 
two plants of the same group (coccinea and Pitcheri) succeeded entirely, 
producing a great number of fertile seeds. C. Pitcheri was taken as the 
carpellary, or seed-bearer, and C. coccinea furnished the pollen. 
The progeny is remarkable for the resemblance of all the individuals 
to each other, constituting a new form intermediate between the two 
species whence it originated. 
The Revue Horticole of August 16, 1893, has published, under the 
signature of M. Ed. André, a description of this hybrid with a coloured 
figure, which represents it accompanied by its two parents. 
It derives from C. coccinea its precocity of flowering, its beautiful 
carmine colour, more or less tinged with violet, and from C. Pitcher: its 
vigour, the bushy stems, and the sepals, which are more open and a little 
reflexed at their tips. The flowers have a sweet odour of vanilla. The 
plant seeds abundantly and naturally, and reproduces itself almost 
exactly ; but if the pollen of one of the parents be again introduced there 
result a great number of forms which depart from the plant pollenised 
afresh and approach the pollen parent. 
The curiously abundant fertility of the Clematis obtained by crossing 
C. Pitcheri and C. coccinea appears to indicate that these two plants, so 
different in aspect, belong, however, to one and the same specific type, and 
are but forms widely differentiated of one species, which occupies large 
areas, and under conditions of climate and environment sufficiently diverse 
to have given rise to local races presenting all the appearance of specific 
autonomy. 
No. 378.—Hysrip BETWEEN ‘C. COCCINEA’ AND A ‘ CLEMATIS MEGALANTHA,’ No. 140 
(WITH LARGE FLOWERS). 
In this instance the hybridisation was effected between two species of 
very different groups. The large-flowered Clematis No. 140 (unnamed 
as yet) was pollenated by C. coccinea. ‘This latter has conveyed the 
form of the flower, the consistence and the number of the sepals (four 
regularly) which form a tube for about one-third of their length, opening 
then funnel-fashion by gradually separating themselves, and are reflexed ° 
outwards at the tips, a form intermediate between the urceolate form of 
C. coccinea and the large wide-spreading flowers of Clematis No. 140. 
This latter has given the colour, lilac-rose striped with deeper rays, out- 
side yellowish-white, on the inside having a little of both parents. The 
leaves resemble more those of a large-flowered Clematis than those of a 
coccinea. Despite all attempts to obtain seed, this hybrid has, so far 
remained sterile. 
