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with large purple leaves that are hairy on the undersides. 

 Flowers pale blue or lilac, very large, and composed of 

 six or eight spreading sepals. C. lanuginosa pallida has 

 immense flowers, often fully half a foot in diameter. 

 Flowers in June. 



C. MONTANA. Nepaul, 1831. This is valuable on 

 account of its flowering in May. It is a free-growing 

 species, with trifoliolate leaves on long footstalks, and 

 large white flowers. C. montana grandiflora is a beautiful 

 variety, having large white flowers so abundantly pro- 

 duced as to hide the foliage. It is quite hardy and of 

 rampant growth. 



C. PATENS (syns C. cserulea and (7. azurea grandiflora). 

 Japan, 1836. This has large, pale-violet flowers, and is 

 the parent of many single and double flowered forms. The 

 typical form is, however, very deserving of cultivation, on 

 account of the freedom with which it blooms during June 

 and July from the wood of the previous year. It is 

 perfectly hardy even in the far north. 



C. VIOBNA. Leather Flower. United States, 1730. This 

 is a showy, small-flowered species, the flowers being 

 campanulate, greenish-white within and purplish without. 

 C. Viorna coccinea is not yet well known, but is one of 

 the prettiest of the small-flowered section. The flowers, 

 which are leathery as in the species, are of a beautiful 

 vermilion on the outside and yellow within. 



C. VITALBA. Lady's Bower, or Old Man's Beard. A 

 handsome native climbing shrub, common in limestone or 

 chalky districts, and unusually abundant in the southern 

 English counties. Clambering over some neglected fence, 

 often to nearly 20 feet in height, this vigorous-growing 

 plant is seen to best advantage, the three- or five-lobed 

 leaves and festoons of greenish-white, fragrant flowers, 

 succeeded by the curious and attractive feathery carpels, 

 rendering the plant one of the most distinct and desirable 

 of our native wildlings flowering in August. 



