CHAP. I. 



RANUNCULA CEi^. CLE'MATIS. 



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Geography, History, <^c. Found in North America, on woody hills in Caro- 

 lina and Vu-ginia. 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 ma,ny 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 BoUwyller, 2 francs ; and at New York, 50 

 cents. 



1 10. C. cyli'ndrica Sims. The cylindrical-Jlowered Clematis, 



Identification. Sims, in Bot. Mag., t. 1160. ; Ait., in Hort. Kew., 2d edit., 3. p. 343. j Pursh, in Fl. 

 Bor. Amer., 2. p. 385. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 7. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 8. 



Synonymes. C. crispa Lam., Mickx. ; C. Vi6rna Andr., in Bot. Rep. ; C. divancata Jacq. ; the long- 

 flowered Virgin's Bower; Clematite & longues Fleurs, Fr. ^ ,c 



Engravings. Bot. Mag., t 1160.; Bot. Rep., t. 71. ; Jacq. f. Eel., 1. p. 51. t. o5. ; and our^^. 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. (Do7i'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 acquaintance with it in a living state. He has 



deemed it related to C. Viorna, reticulata, and 



crispa, and discriminated it from these. C. cylin- 



drica, he says, differs from C. Viorna, 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. Viorna 



and cylindrica, seen together in a living state, are 



very dissimilar in appearance. C. Viorna 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, Sfc. 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 BoUwyller, ?; and at New York, 



50 cents. 



