C L I 



C L I 



The flowers are axillary, on very short pe- 

 duncles, ot" a yellowish green colour, coming 

 out in July and August. Alale plants mostly 

 •cultivated. 



Culture. — The propagation in these plants 

 inav be efl'ected either by cuttings or layers of 

 the young shoots. The first should be planted 

 in pots ot good light mould either in the spring 

 or summer months, plunging them in moderate 

 hot-beds. 



The layers should be hiid down in the spring, 

 and, when perfectly rooted, taken oft" and set out 

 in pots as in the otlier way. 



Tlieir further management is that of keeping 

 them in the protection of the green-house, wa- 

 tering them frceU'in summer, but very sparingly 

 during the winter season. 



All. these plants are very ornamental in their 

 flowers, espcciallv the male ones, producing a 

 line effect in the green-house coik-etions. 



CLIMBING PLA-\ fS, such plants as ascend 

 cither spirally round supports, or by means of 

 claspers and tendrils. 



They are either herbaceous or woodv ; and 

 which, according to their mode of climbing, may 

 be denominated Twining Climbers, Cirrhous 

 Cliuibers, and Parasitic Climbers. 



The lirst are such as have winding stalks, 

 and t\\ ist about any neighbouring support, such 

 as scarlet kidney-beans, hops, and some sorts of 

 honeysuckle. 



The second are such as ascend by means of 

 spiral strings, issuing from the sides of the 

 stalks and branches, or from the foot-stalks of 

 the leaves, and even from the leaves themselves, 

 twisting about any thing they meet with, by 

 which their stalks are supported and arrive at the 

 proper height, such as most of the pea tribe, cu- 

 cumber, vme, passion-flower, and various others. 



The last are also of the same kind, but their 

 clappers plant themselves as roots in the bark 

 of the plants on which they ascend, or in the 

 crevices of walls or pales, thereby supporting 

 themselves, and mount to their tops, as the 

 ivy, Virginia creeper, radicant bignonia, and se- 

 veral others. 



Some of these sorts of plants, both of the 

 herbateous and shrubby kinds, are very or- 

 namental. The principal of the herbaceous 

 kind are; the everlasting pea, painted lady-pea, 

 scarlet and white kidnev-bean, nasturtium, 

 gourd, hop-plant, scarlet convolvulus, and many 

 others. 



The chief of the shrubby kinds, or such as 

 Jiave perennial stalks are: the radicant and r-.ct- 

 green iignonia, climbing cJas/rus, different 



species and varieties of virgin's -bower, kidney* 

 bean-tree of Carolina, ivy, Virginia creeper, 

 many sorts of honeysuckle, passion- floweri 

 many varieties of peiiwinkle, the vine, and se- 

 veral others. 



Most of the herbaceous climbers are very or- 

 namental, and may be introciaced in lar2e bor- 

 ders, placing sticks for their support. The 

 more tall growing sorts jnay also he employed 

 to run over arbours or rural seats in pleasure- 

 grounds. 



The shrubhv sorts are most of them proper 

 furniture for shrubberies of considerable extent, 

 in which they may be emploved in different 

 ways ; some being dispersed in the clumps, de- 

 tached from other plants, placing tall, strong 

 stakes for their support ; others placed in large 

 borders and the boundaries of lawns, &c. ; and 

 some near hardy trees and large shrubs, to climb 

 about their stems, or interweave in tlveiv branches 

 and tops; in the ornamenting of naked or un- 

 sitihlly walls and r-ther liigh buildings ; and in de- 

 corating and forming rural arbours, wheic ihere 

 is any kiixd of open-woik for the branches to 

 climb upon, they are likewise very useful, as they 

 shoot verv rapidly. 



These sorts should many of them be kept 

 properly cut in during the autumn and early 

 spring months. 



CLITORIA, a genus containing plants of 

 the exotic climbing kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Diudelphia 

 Decandria, and ranks in the natural order of 

 PapiUonacc'CB or Leguminosce. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leaied, erect, tubular, five-toothed, permanent pe- 

 rianthium: the corolla is papilionaceous: stand- 

 ard very large, straight, emarginate, waved at the 

 margin, spreading, and overshadowing the other 

 petals: wings oblong, straight, obtuse, shorter 

 than the standard: keel shorter than the wings, 

 falcated somewhat roundly : the stamina are in 

 two brotherhoods (simple and nine-cleft): anthers 

 simple: the pistillum is an oblon-i; germ : style 

 ascending: stigma obtuse : the pericarpium is a 

 legunievery long, linear,compressed, one-celled, 

 two-valved, with the tip subulate: the seeds 

 many and reniform. 



The species are: 1. C. ttrnata. Winged- 

 leaved Clitoria ; 2. C. Brasil'iana,V,r!is\\.M\ Cli- 

 toria; 3. C. Virginiana, Small-flowered Virgi- 

 nian Clitoria. 



The first rises with a twining herbaceous stalk 

 to the height of four or fi\e I'ect, in the manner 

 of the kidney-bean, requiring similar support:: 

 the leaves are winged, composed of two or three 



