ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



-i C. F. 5 ccBspitdsa Dec. C. caespitosa Scop., C. Flammula Bertol. 



Leaflets minute, entire or cut. 

 -t C F. Q paniculdta. C. paniculata Thun. T'lowers with the peduncles 



simple. 



A vigorous-growing plant, the stems of which rapidly attain the length of 

 from 13 ft. to 30 ft. in a state of culture. The leaves are subject to much 

 variation, from soil, situation, and climate. The peduncles of the flowers are 

 sometimes simple, and sometimes branched. The colour of the sepals is 

 white, slightly pubescent on their exterior margins. The whole plant has a 

 dark green hue; and in autumn it is abundantly covered with flowers, the 

 odour of which is of a honied sweetness, exceedingly disagreeable to some 

 persons when near, though at a distance it is not unlike the fragrance of the 

 common hawthorn. From the rapidity of its growth, it will in four or five 

 years cover a very large space of wall, roof, or bower. Its herbage is con- 

 sidered less acrid than that of any other of the European species, notwith- 

 standing its name of Flammula. 



1 2. C. ORiENTA^Lis i. The Oriental Clematis. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 765.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 3. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 4. 



Synonymes. Flammula scandens apii folio glauco, Dill. Elth. 144. ; C. fl&va Mcench. Metfi. 296. ; 



the Eastern, or yellow-flowered. Virgin's Bower ; C. gla(Jca Willd. ; C. ochroleOca Hort. ; 



Clematite orientale, Fr. ; Morgenlandische Waldrebe, Ger. 

 Engravings. Dill. Elth., t. 119. f. 14.5. ; and OMvfig. 2. 



Spec.Char.,Sfc. Leaves pinnate; 

 leaflets smooth, wedge-shaped, 

 with three toothed pointed 

 lobes. {Don's Mill.) A decidu- 

 ous climber. Levant and Cau- 

 casus. Height 10 ft. to 13 ft. 

 Introduced in 1731. Flowers 

 greenish yellow slightly tint- 

 ed with russet, sweet-scented; 

 July, August. Fruit white ; 

 ripe in October. Leaves 

 somewhat glaucous, dying ofl" 

 black or dark-brown. 



Varieties. C. glauca Willd. and 

 C. ochroleuca Hort. are, by 

 some, alleged to be varieties 

 of C. orientalis ; but we do 

 not consider them sufficiently 

 distinct for varieties, and have, 

 therefore, included these 

 names in our synonymes. 



The general magnitude of this 

 species resembles that of C. 

 Flammula, from which it differs 

 in its ulterior branches being 

 more persistently ligneous, 

 though the main stem in old 

 plants is seldom seen so thick as 

 that of C. Flammula. It is also 

 distinguished from the latter 

 species by throwing up suckers 

 freely, which the other does 

 not. Its leaflets are glaucous, 

 flat, large as compared with 

 those of C. Flammida ; and it 

 does not produce flowers so profusely as that species. The flowers are yel- 



t. Clematis orientMis. 



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