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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



or purple ; July to September. Fruit white ; ripe in October. Decaying 

 foliage black or brown. 



Varieties. 



J. C. r. 1 ccBridea. Flowers blue. 



-i C V. 2 purpurea. Flowers purple. 



i C. r. 3 multiplex G. Don. C. pulchella Pers. Flowers double, blue. 



This variety produces more robust, more extended, and fewer shoots, 



than the single-flowered blue or purple varieties. 

 1 C. V. 4 tenuifolia Dec, C. tenuifolia lusitanica Tourn. ; and 

 1 C. r. 5 baccdta Dec, C. campaniflora Hort. ; are varieties which we 



have not seen. 



C. Viticella, and all its varieties, are 

 tolerably robust and vigorous in their 

 growth, and decidedly ligneous ; though 

 plants, individually, do not endure many 

 years. They are, perhaps, the most beau- 

 tiful and most estimable of all the kinds 

 of clematis, for the purposes of floral de- 

 coration. For the mere covering of bowers 

 and other objects, they are, however, lessj 

 suited than C. Vitalba and C. Flammula; as 

 these grow faster, extend farther, and each 

 yields a greater aggregate of herbage, and 

 so covers better : but none of them can 

 vie with C. Viticella and its varieties in 

 beauty; more especially with the single 

 purple and the single blue. 



17. Clematis Viticella 



-I. l^. C. campaniflo'ra J5?-o/. The bell-flowered Clematis. 



Identification. Brot. Flor. Lus., 3. p. 352. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 9. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 9. 



Synont/mes. C. viornoldes, received at the Chelsea Botanic Garden by this name, from the Berlin 



Botanic Garden (D. Don, in Sin. Fl.-Gard., 2d ser., t.217.) ; C. viornoldes Schroder, Hort. Brit. 



No. 28757.; C. parviflbra Dec, according to Sweet. 

 Engravings. Lod. Bot. Cab., 



987.; S\v. Br. Fl.-Gard., 2d 



series, t. 217.; and our ^/g. 18. 



Spec. Char., 8fc. Pedun- 

 cles 1 -flowered, some- 

 what longer than the 

 leaves. Leaves biter- 

 nately decompound ; 

 leaflets entire, or 3- 

 lobed. Sepals half- 

 spreading, dilated at 

 the apex, wavy. (Do7i's 

 Mill.) A deciduous 

 suflTrutescent climber 

 of vigorous growth. 

 Portugal, in hedges. 

 Height 11 ft. to 15 ft. 

 Introd.1810. Flowert. 

 white, slightly tinged 

 with purple ; July and 

 August. Fruit white. 

 Decaying foliage dai'k 



brown. is a^matis campanifibra. 



Variefi/. 



1 C. r. 2 parviflora. C. parviflora Fisch. of Gottingen. Flowers rather 

 smaller than in the species, sepals crisped at the edges. H. S. 



