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The hybrid progeny showed a very wide varia- 

 tion, especially as regards color of the flowers. 

 There were blue, crimson, scarlet, and white 

 flowers, and sometimes all of these colors ap- 

 peared on a single plant. 



There was also much variation within certain 

 limits in the form and texture of the flowers, 

 which in general were of a much larger size than 

 those of the seed parent, and more spreading 

 and widely open in form. Some of these had 

 thick sepals and some had thin ones. 



Perhaps the most striking peculiarity was that 

 the interior of the sepals often had a frosted 

 appearance, due to the presence of a filament 

 network of papillae. There is something of this 

 appearance occasionally in flowers of C. coccinea 

 and C. crispa, but it was greatly accentuated in 

 many of the hybrids. In general habit and their 

 herbaceous stems, the hybrids seem almost uni- 

 formly to follow the seed parent. 



The flowers were produced in great abun- 

 dance, and the colors were not only most beauti- 

 ful but showed combinations never before seen in 

 the clematis. The bell-shaped flowers are for the 

 most part white on the inside, but exteriorly they 

 are crimson, pink, orange, blue, or purple. The 

 beautiful frosty throats give the flowers an ap- 

 pearance that is unique. 



