5OO CLEMATIS. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



CLEMATIS. 



gracefully borne and pendulous, from half 

 an inch to three-quarters of an inch long, 

 bell-shaped or tubular, the sepals yellow- 

 ish white. Like most of the Clerruitis, 

 this varies a good deal in shape of leaf, 

 and one form has been considered dis- 

 tinct enough to receive the name of 

 latisecta. 



C. alpina (Alpine Clematis). A very 

 pretty plant flowering in spring. The 

 flowers are nodding, the four large sepals 

 being soft blue with a whitish margin, or 

 sometimes almost entirely white. The 

 flower is 2 ins. or more across. Syn., 

 Atragene austriaca. 



C. apiifolia. A vigorous climber with 

 ternate leaves, growing 10 ft. high, flower- 

 ing in August and September in panicles 

 dull white. Japan and China. Closely 

 allied to this is C. brevicaudata. 



C. aromatica is closely allied to C. 

 Viticella, and if it be a hybrid, as it is 

 supposed to be, that species must be one of 

 the parents. It is a slender plant, 6 or 7 ft. 

 high. The solitary flowers are about 2 ins. 

 in diameter, and of a rich purplish blue, 

 and have a delicate and slightly aromatic 

 odour. 



C. campaniflora (Bell-flowered C.} 

 A very pretty kind, small bell-shaped 

 flowers about * in. in diameter, pale violet 

 or almost white. The flowers are very 

 freely borne, and against the deep green, 

 often finely-divided foliage, they are very 

 effective. The plant is rare in gardens, 

 though coming freely from seed. 



C. calycina ( Winter flowering C.} (C. 

 balearica of Richard). A native of 

 Minorca and Corsica, evergreen with dark 

 brown angled stems, and during the 

 winter the foliage acquires a fine bronzy 

 hue. The flower is about 2 in. across, 

 yellowish white, stained inside with ob- 

 long, irregular, reddish-purple spots. 

 December to April. In the London dis- 

 trict it ought to have the shelter of a 

 wall to flower well. From its near ally, 

 the following species, it differs in its 

 narrower and more divided foliage. 



C. cirrhosa (Evergreen C.) (C. balearica 

 of Persoon). This evergreen species has 

 been much confused with C. calycina. 

 C. cirrhosa however, if it comes from the 

 Balearic Islands at all, is not confined to 

 them, but is a native also of various 

 parts of Spain, and is found also in 

 Algiers and on the mountains of N. Africa. 

 The flowers are dull white or cream 

 coloured, downy outside, smooth within, 

 and about i^ in. in diameter. In South 

 Europe it climbs over big trees, but it 

 grows only some 8 or 10 ft. high in these 

 colder latitudes. 



C. coccinea (Scarlet C.) A distinct 

 and beautiful species, some 6 to 10 ft. 

 high, the flowers varying in colour from 

 rosy carmine to scarlet ; they are swollen 

 at the base, but narrow towards the top, 

 where, however, the tips of the four 

 sepals are recurved. These sepals are 

 very thick and leathery. A larger-flowered 

 variety is known as major, and various 

 hybrids have been raised by crossing this 

 and other species. N. America. 



C. connata. It is a climber with 

 stout woody stems with leaflets 3 to 5 in. 

 long, coarsely toothed, or sometimes 

 more or less three-lobed. The bell- 

 shaped flowers appear during autumn and 

 are of a clear light yellow, pointed tips re- 

 curved. Himalaya. 



C. crispa (Frilled C.) This name 

 applies to a number of plants alike in all 

 essential features, but differing in the 

 shape of the leaves and in the size and 

 colour of the flower. The leaf consists of 

 three, five, or more leaflets, which vary in 

 outline. The calyx is cylindrical or bell- 

 shaped, and from I to 2 in. long, the upper 

 part of each sepal spreading. The 

 colour is purple margined with white, or 

 in some forms pale lilac. The flowers are 

 fragrant and appear in June, continuing 

 up to autumn. Some of the forms are 

 bright in colour and pretty, but others are 

 amongst the least effective of the shrubby 

 Clematis, the thick, heavy sepals being of 

 a dull purple (N. America). 



C. Douglas! (Douglas's C.) A Rocky 

 Mountain species discovered by David 

 Douglas, and at present scarcely known in 

 English gardens. The flower is bell-shaped, 

 I inch long, the sepals being recurved at 

 the tips and of an intense purple inside, 

 paler without. 



C. flammula(/<>agra/ Virgiris Bower). 

 A vigorous grower, its leaves are of 

 a rich dark green and remain fresh till 

 well into the winter. The flowers are 

 small (half-inch to three-quarters of an 

 inch across) and appear in late summer 

 and autumn fragrant, creamy-white, the 

 fruit white and feathery. This species is 

 variable, in the size and shape of the 

 leaflets and in the flower panicles, some 

 of which are large with numerous blos- 

 soms, whilst in other forms the panicles 

 are few-flowered and scarcely branched. 



C. florida. A distinct species, grows 9 

 to 12 ft. high, the flowers 2 to 4 in. across, 

 flat when fully expanded, sepals of a 

 creamy white and the tuft of stamens 

 purple. There is a double-flowered vari- 

 ety and others with violet or blush-tinted 

 flowers (Japan). 



C. Fremonti. This has herbaceous 



