CLEMATIS 359 



shining green, almost or quite smooth ; stalk i to 2 ins. long. Flowers 3 to 

 4 2 ins. across, the sepals usually four (occasionally more), obovate, i^ 

 ins. wide, wavy at the margins, dark blue-violet; stamens yellow. Seed-vessels 

 with long silky tails. 



A beautiful hybrid between integrifolia and one of the large-flowered 

 garden varieties, raised by Durand freres of Lyons about 1870. 



Var. PALLIDA. Flowers paler, violet-rose. 



Both these are exceptionally desirable and flower from June to September. 



C. FLAMMULA, Linnceus. 



A climbing, deciduous plant, growing 10 ft. or more high, forming at the 

 top a heavy, bushy tangle, whilst it is comparatively naked and unfurnished 

 below ; young stems smooth. Leaves very variable in size and shape, 

 but mostly composed of three eft five leaflets, which are not toothed, but 

 often two- or three-lobed and frequently trifoliolate ; they are bright green 

 on both sides and quite smooth, varying in shape from narrowly lanceolate 

 to almost round. Flowers pure white, delightfully fragrant, | to I in. across, 

 produced from August to October, in loose cymes up to I ft. in length. 

 Seed-vessels oval, j in. long, surmounted by a white-plumed style i^ ins. long. 



Native of S. Europe ; cultivated in Britain since the sixteenth century. In 

 the fragrance of its blossoms this Clematis provides one of the greatest pleasures 

 of the autumn garden, It is variously compared with the scent of almonds, 

 vanilla, and hawthorn, and is perceptible some yards away from the plant. 



C. RUBRO-MARGINATA (C. Flammula var. rubro-marginata). A hybrid 

 between C. Flammula and C. Viticella. The flowers are i to i4r ins. across, 

 the sepals being white at the base, the remainder reddish violet. Their 

 fragrance is equal to that of C. Flammula, and they expand during the same 

 period. One of the most charming of late summer-flowering climbers. 



C. FLORIDA, Thunberg. 



(Gardeners' Chronicle, July 23, 1902, fig. 20.) 



A deciduous, or semi-evergreen, shrubby climber, growing 8 to 12 ft. high, 

 with hard, wiry stems. Leaves 3 to 5 ins. long, normally composed of three 

 divisions, which are each again divided into three leaflets. Leaflets ovate to 

 lanceolate, i to 2 ins. long, mostly untoothed in the cultivated forms, but often 

 coarsely toothed in the wild ; glossy dark green above, more or less hairy 

 beneath. Flowers 2^ to 3 ins. across, solitary on downy stalks 3 to 4 ins. long, 

 that are furnished about the middle with a pair of stalkless, variously lobed, 

 leaf-like bracts. Sepals from four to six, oval, pointed, fully spread, white or 

 creamy white, with a greenish band down the back. Stamens spreading, dark 

 (almost black) purple. Seed-vessels purplish, with silky tails. Flowers in 

 June and July. 



Native of China, and possibly Japan. It was first noticed in Japan by 

 Thunberg, and was introduced in 1776, but the plants Thunberg saw were 

 doubtless cultivated ones. The wild type was collected by Henry, near Ichang, 

 but is probably not now in cultivation. The florida group of garden clematises 

 is much prized by cultivators, although many varieties are doubtless hybrids 

 with patens and lanuginosa "blood" in them. C. florida and patens are no 

 doubt closelyj allied, and are united by intermediate forms, so that some 

 authorities have united them. But for garden purposes, C. patens is well 

 distinguished in having no bracts on the flower-stalk, and in the leaves con- 

 sisting of three or five simple leaflets. The varieties of C. florida are not quite 

 so hardy as those of 'lanuginosa, but some have lived and flowered regularly 



