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ARnOUETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



I'AKT 111, 



style terminating in a little white feathery 

 process when the seeil ripens: the plant at 

 that time appears ccvereil with littU.' tufts of 

 cotton. In its native habitats this plant (low- 

 ers in July and Auizust; but in 15ritain it 

 continues in llower from July to October. 

 From the rapidity of its growth, it will in 

 four or live years cover a very large space 

 of wall, roof, or bower. Its herbage is con- 

 sidered less acrid than that of any other of 

 the European species, notwithstanding its /J 

 name of Fhimmula. {Dec. Si/st.) Jr 



Geography. This well-known species 

 seems contined to the middle and soutli of 

 Europe and to the north of Africa. It is 

 found in the south of France in hedges, and 

 m waste bushy places ; in Greece, Italy, 

 Si)ain,and Portugal (see p. 13-2, and i).164.), 

 and in all these countries, generally in low 

 situations, not far from the sea, and in soil 

 more or less calcareous. 



History and Use. C. Flammula appears 

 to have been first recorded by Dodon*us, 

 in his Stirpiuiii HIstorioe PeiiipUtde.i, in 1585 ; 

 it was recognised by iNlatthiolus 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 llower, and its tufted cottony masses when in seed. 



Statistics, Plants may be had in all the European nurseries : about Lon- 

 don, 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 franc a plant ; and at New Yoik, for 30 cents per plant. 



1 2. C. orienta'i.is Z. The Oriental Clematis. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., "fii. ; Willd. .Sp., 2. 1289. ; Lam. Diet. Eiic, 2. p. 42. ; Hayne Dend., lilt.; 



Dec. I'rod., 1. p. 3. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 4. 

 Si/nont/mfs. Flammula scandens apii folio glauco. Dill. F.lth., 144. ; C. flava Mat-nch. Mfth., 296. ; 



the eastern, or yellow-flowered, Virgin's Bower ; Cleiuatite oritatale, Fr. ; Morgenlandische 



Waldrebe, Gcr. 

 Engravings. Dill. Elth^ t. 1 19. f. 145. ; and our,^^. 10. 



Spec.Char. Leaves pinnate; leaflets smooth wedge- 

 shaped, with three toothed pointed lobes. (Dans 

 Mill., 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. Flamnmla, from which 



it diflers, 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 caipeis are dissimilar, 



though still cottony in apjjcarance when the seed ; 



is ripe. ^^ 



