I. flANUNCULA^CEJE I CLE'MATIS. 



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The habit of growth of this plant is that of C. Viticella, to which it also 

 comes nearest in affinity, but, though less woody, its shoots are much more 

 robust; the much smaller and white flowers, and pointed sepals connivent (that 

 is, lying close together) below, will readily distinguish it. It seldom ripens 

 wood in England, but is readily propagated by layers. 



1 15. C, CRI'SPA L. The curled-sepaled Clematis. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 765. ; Dec. Prod., I. p. 9. ; Don's Mill., ] p 9 

 Synonyme. C. fibre crispo Dill. Elth. 

 Engravings. Dill. Elth., 1. t. 73. fig. 84. ; Bot. Mag., 

 1982. ; and our Jig. 19. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Peduncles 1 -flowered, 

 shorter than the leaves. Leaves entire, 

 3-lobed, or ternate, very acute. Sepals 

 connivent at the base, but reflexed, and 

 spreading at the apex. (Don's Mill.) A 

 deciduous climber. Virginia to Florid*. 

 Height 3 ft to 5 ft. Introduced in 1726. 

 Flowers purple ; July to September. Fruit 

 brownish ; ripe in October. 



Leaves glabrous, or s-ightly hairy. Flowers 

 e third smaller than in C. Viorna, bright 



one 



purple. Tail of the carpels thick and rigid, 



about half an inch long. (Tor. and Gray.) 



The flowers of this species are pretty, but 



perhaps never produced in sufficient quan- 



tity to render it highly decorative. The se- 



pals have their tips reflexed, and waved with 



transverse wrinkles. The stems are weak, and 19 - cumatu 



do not generally rise higher than 3 or 4 feet. The plants frequently die down 



to the ground, so that this species requires to be treated more as herbaceous 



than ligneous. It ripens seeds plentifully. 



iii. Ckeiropsis Dec. 



Derivation. From cheir, the hand, and opsts, resemblance ; in allusion to the form of the bracteas. 



Sect. Char. Involucre in the form of a calyx, from two joined bracteas situated 

 at the top of the peduncle just under the flower. Tails of pericarps 

 bearded. Climbing or rambling shrubs, with simple or ternate leaves. The 

 old petioles persistent, and the new leaves and the peduncles produced in 

 clusters from the axils of these. (Dec. Syst., i. 162.) Evergreen. 



i. 16. C. CIRRHO'SA L. The tendriled-petioled Clematis. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 766.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 9. : Don's Mill., 1. p. 9. 



Synonymes. ^tragene cirrhbsa Pers. Syn. 2. p. 98.; Traveller's Joy of Candia, and Spanish Tra- 

 veller's Joy, Johnson's Gerard ; Spanish wild Climber, Parkinson ; the evergreen Clematis ; 

 Clematite a Vrilles, Clematite toujours verte (Bon Jard.), Fr. ; einfachblattrige (simple-leaved) 

 Waldrebe, Ger. 



Derivation. The word cirrhbsa, which means cirrhose, or tendriled, is applied to this species 

 from the "peculiarly grasping and tendril-like action of its petioles, which retain their hold even 

 after the leaflets have fallen. The French word Vrilles signifies tendrils; and the German word 

 einfach alludes to its comparatively simple leaves. 



Engravings. See the Varieties. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Peduncle 1-flowered, with an involucre. Leaves simple, or 

 variously divided ; evergreen. An evergreen climber. Spain and the 

 Balearic Isles. Height in British gardens, in the climate of London, in a 

 warm situation, against a wall, 5ft to 10ft. Introduced in 1596. Flowers 

 greenish or yellowish white; March and April. Fruit'. Foliage of the 

 broad-leaved varieties forming a fine dark green mass. 



