I. iiANUNCULA^CEiE : CLEMATIS. 



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C. fl(Srida fl. pi. vjolkceo. 



favourable exposure. 



Clematis fidrida. 



p. 147. ; C. bicolor Hort. ; and our Jig. 14. ; 



is in all respects the same as the last, except 



that the petals, or centre of the flower, are 



of a rich violet colour, approaching to purple. 



It was sent from Japan to Europe by Dr. 



Sieboldt ; and introduced into England in 



1836. It is a most ornamental plant, and as 



hardy and easily propagated as the other va- 

 riety or the e-pecies. 



The stem is slender ^ 

 and striated ; climbing 

 to the height of 15 ft. 

 or upwards when it is 

 trained to a wall with a 

 though never becoming very woody. The flowers 

 are large and handsome, either in a single or 

 double state ; and these, with the neatness of its 

 foliage, and the slenderness of its stems and 

 branches, give it such an air of elegance, that no 

 lover of plants should be without it, who has a 

 garden in which it will thrive. North of London 

 it requires a wall ; and in Scotland, as well as 

 in France and Germany, it is generally kept in 

 the green-house. A mode of pruning plants of 

 this species, by cutting them down to the ground 

 annually, though not generally practised, is said 

 to produce vigorous shoots and fine flowers. This species never ripens seeds 

 in England, and is therefore only propagated by layers. 



1 12. C. c^ERU^LEA Lindl. The blue, or violet-flowered. Clematis. 



Identification. Lindl., in Bot. Reg., t. 1955. 



Synonymes. C. azOrea grandiflbra S?(?6.; C grandiflbra flbr/. 



Engravings. Bot. Keg., 1. 1955.; and our fig. 16. 



iS/jec. Char., Sfc. Leaves spreading, hairy, ternate. 

 Segments ovate-acute, entire. Peduncles 1- 

 flowered. Sepals 6 to 8, oblong, lanceolate, 

 acute, membranaceous. Margin distended. 

 (Lindl.) A deciduous climber. Japan. Height 

 10 ft. to 12 ft. Introduced in 1836. Flowers 

 blue ; June and July, Fruit ?. 



A free-growing and profuse-blooming plant, 

 with the habit of C. florida. Flowers large, 

 violet-coloured, with deep purple stamens, \t 

 differs from C. florida in the colour, delicacy, 

 and transparency of its blossoms, and also in 

 its leaves being only once ternate, and in the 

 sepals not touching and overlapping each other 

 at the edges. Culture and propagation as in 

 C. florida. 



IG. Clematis csriilea 



1 13, C. Vitice'lla L. The Vine-Bower Clematis. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 762. ; Dec. Prod., I. p.9. ; Don's Mill., L p. 9. 



Synonymes. Vitic^Ua Avlibiiea. Moench; the red-flowered Lady's Bower, Gerard: Italienische 



Waldrebe, Ger. j < , 



Engravings. Flor. Grac, t. 516. ; Bot. Mag., t. 565. ; and our;^. 17. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Peduncles 1-flowered, longer than the leaves. Leaves 

 ternately decompound, lobes or leaflets entire. Sepals obovate, spreading. 

 {Doris Mill.) A deciduous climber. South of Europe, in hedges, on 

 calcareous soil. Height 10 ft. to 15 ft. Introduced in 1569 Flowers blue 



