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mens : stigmas simple : there is no pericarpium : 

 receptacle headed, small : the seeds very many, 

 roundish, compressed, furnished with the style, 

 in various forms. 



The species chiefly cultivated are: 1. C. 

 I'll 'a 'la, Purple Virgin's Bower ; 2. C. Vloora, 

 Leathery-flowered Virgin's Bower; 3. C. Orien- 

 talis, Oriental Virgin's Bower j 4. C. Vtrginiana, 

 Virginian Virgin's Bower ; 5. C. crista, Curled- 

 leaved Virgin's Bower; 6. C. cirrhosa, Ever- 

 green Virgin's Bower; 7. C. Flammi/la, Sweet- 

 scented Virgin's Bower ; 8. C. erecta, Upright 

 Virgin's Bower; Q. C. integrlf'tdia, Entire- 

 leaved Virgin's Bower. 



The first has the stems very slender and 

 weak, with many joints, whence come out side 

 branches, which are again divided into smaller 

 ones. If these be supported, they rise to the height 

 of eight or ten feet : the leaves branch out into 

 many divisions, each having a slender foot-stalk, 

 with three oval entire leaflets : four foot-stalks 

 generally arise from the same joint, two on each 

 side ; the two lower have tnreeof these divisons, 

 so that they are composed of nine leaflets; but 

 the two upper have only two opposite leaves 

 on each, and between these arise three slender 

 peduncles, each supporting one flower. It grows 

 naturally in the woods of Spain, &c. flowering in 

 June and the following month. It has the title of 

 Virgin's Bower, from its fitness for constituting 

 such ornaments. 



There are cultivated varieties with single blue, 

 single purple, single red, and with double pur- 

 ple flowers. 



The second species has many slender stems, 

 sarmentose, round, striated, prostrate or climb- 

 ing : the leaflets are three-lobed, divided to 

 the petiole, smooth, paler underneath, entire, 

 sometimes gashed, but commonly somewhat 

 sinuated and waved, the nerve of the side-lobes 

 not in the middle, but nearer to the inner side : 

 peduncles long, solitary, axillary, with one 

 pair of simple leaves in the middle : flowers 

 solitary, nodding, coriaceous, ribbed on the 

 outside, never opening, except at the end, 

 where the petals are bent back ; they are of a 

 greenish purple on the outside, and very pale 

 green within. 



It is a native of Carolina, &c. flowering from 

 June to September, ripening seeds in fine seasons. 



The third has weak climbing stalks, ris- 

 iug to the height of seven or eight feet when 

 they are supported : the leaves consist of 'nine 

 leaflets, which are angular and sharp-pointed, 

 glaucous on both sides, with such soft slender 

 hairs on them as are not easily either seen or felt : 

 the flowers drooping, and of a yellowish green 

 colour, with a tinge of russet on the upper part 



or outside. Tt flowers from July to October, 

 and is a native of the Levant. 



The fourth species has climbing stems, very 

 high : the leaves are ternate : leaflets thinly but 

 deeply serrate-angular, naked, cordate, veined : 

 floral leaves simple, six together or subverticil- 

 late, quite entire, three-lobed or undivided : the 

 flowers are of a white colour, and spreading. It 

 is a native of North America, Stc. flowering from 

 June to August. 



The fifth ha3 weak stalks, which rise near 

 four feet high, and by their claspers fasten them- 

 belves to neighbouring plants : the flowers come 

 out singly from the sides of the branches upon 

 short peduncles, having one or two pair of leaves 

 on them, which are oblong and sharp-pointed : 

 the corolla i« purple, the inside is curled, and 

 has many longitudinal furrows. It is a native of 

 Carolina, See. flowering in July, and ripening 

 seed in September. 



The sixth species has a climbing stalk, rising 

 to the height of eight or ten feet, sending out 

 branches from every joint, whereby it becomes a. 

 very thick bushy plant : the leaves are sometimes 

 single, sometimes double, frequently ternate, 

 serrate ; keeping their verdure all the year : the 

 tendrils come out opposite to the leaves : the 

 flowers are produced from the side of the branches ; 

 are large, and of an herbaceous colour, ap- 

 pearing at the end of December, or beginning 

 of January. It grows naturally in Spain. 



The seventh is rather creeping than climbing. 

 It is lower and more tender than some of the 

 other species : the leaves arc also smaller, with 

 five and seven pinnas, or three-lobed, or three- 

 leaved ; the leaflets ovate-lanceolate, with few 

 gashes, and one or two teeth : the flowers are 

 of a white colour, sweet-scented, and appear from 

 July to October. It is a native of the South of 

 France, &c. 



The eighth species has a perennial root: the 

 stems are herbaceous, annual, round, scarcely 

 branched, from three to five feet high, firm, 

 ending in a panicle at top : the leaves are op- 

 posite, and pinnate ; the leaflets from two to 

 four purs, with an odd one at the end, petioled, 

 lanceolate or ovate, acute, the upper surface 

 smooth and green, the lower somewhat villose 

 and glaucous ; they are entire, seldom two- 

 lobed: the flowers are of a white colour at 

 the ends of the stalks ; come out in June, 

 and ripen seeds in winter. It is a native of 

 France, Sec. 



There is a variety, with only two or three 

 pairs of leaflets, which are narrower, and stand 

 further asunder, having shorter stalks and larger 

 flowers. 



The ninth has a perennial root : the stems are 



