CINERARIA CLEMATIS. 



Cineraria macrophylla (Great-leaved 

 C.) Ligularia macrophylla. A 

 stately plant, 4 to 6 ft. high. 

 Flowers, in summer; yellow, numerous, 

 in an elongated, crowded, leafless, 

 branching panicle ; florets of the ray 2 

 to 3 ; florets of the disk 6 to 7 ; pedicels 

 rather scaly. Lower leaves elliptical, 

 narrowed into an ovate, margined 

 footstalk, from I^to2 ft. long includ- 

 ing the footstalk, and 5 to 9 in. broad, 

 indented with cartilaginous teeth ; 

 upper leaves clasping the stem, 

 glaucous. Altai Mountains. Asso- 

 ciated with the finer and stronger 

 hardy foliage - plants in rich, deep 

 soil ; also as an isolated specimen 

 in the turf, by wood-walks. Seed and 

 careful division. 



Cineraria maritima (Silvery C.) 

 A half -shrubby, silvery plant, 18 in. 

 to 24 ft. high. Flowers, late in sum- 

 mer ; yellow, in compound panicled 

 corymbs ; involucrum with a few small 

 bracts at the base. Leaves, stalked, 

 smooth above, covered with white 

 down underneath, pinnatifid, with 

 from 4 to 6 oblong, obtuse, three- 

 lobed segments on each side. Stem 

 downy, like the under side of the 

 leaves. South of France. A new 

 variety with broader foliage (C. acan- 



tldfolia), is now in cultivation. 



Borders, fringes of shrubbery, rough, 

 rocky places, etc. ; it is much used as 

 an edging and bedding plant. Cuttings 

 and seed. 



Clematis calycina (Winter Clematis.} 

 C. balearica. A very elegant, 

 hardy climber, attaining a height of 

 12 ft. or more. Flowers, cream- colour, 

 about 2 in. across, very numerous, 

 growing in pairs from the axils of 

 the many- jointed stems, and ap- 

 pearing in mild districts, through 

 the winter and spring. Leaves, 

 trifoliate, stalked, in partial whorls at 

 the joints of the stem ; leaflets vari- 

 ously lobed. Island of Minorca. 



Bowers, trellises, clambering over 

 rough shrubs and hedges, and also on 

 rough rock work. Division, cuttings, 

 or seed. 



Clematis campaniflora (Bell- flowered 

 C.) A free and graceful climbing 

 plant, growing 6 to 12 ft. high. 

 Flowers, in early summer; delicate 

 light purple; sepals half -spreading, 

 widening at the base; peduncles 1- 

 flowered. Leaves, biternately decom- 

 pound, leaflets entire or 3-lobed. Por- 

 tugal. Creeping over old stumps, 



bowers, arches, and naturalization in 

 hedgerows, on banks, and in very 

 rough rocky places, in any soil. Seed 

 and division. 



Clematis erecta (Erect C.) An her- 

 baceous perennial, with a straight, 

 erect, furrowed, light-green stem, 

 about 3 ft. high. Flowers, in summer ; 

 large, white, on long fine stalks, in 

 terminal umbel-like clusters. Leaves, 

 opposite, large, pinnate ; leaflets 

 stalked, oval - acute, with downy 

 petioles. Austria. Borders, mar- 

 gins of shrubberies, naturalization in 

 semi- wild places, in any soil. Divi- 

 sion. 



Clematis Flammula (Sweet C.) A 

 vigorous climbing shrub, the stems 

 attaining in cultivation a length of 

 from 12 to 30 ft. Flowers, in summer 

 and autumn; white, very fragrant, 

 in panicles; peduncles sometimes 

 simple and sometimes branched. 

 Leaves, pinnate, smooth ; leaflets, en- 

 tire or 3-lobed, roundish, oval, or 

 linear, somewhat acute. Southern 



Europe and Northern Africa. 



Similar positions to the preceding, 

 and worthy of universal culture. 

 Seed or layers. 



Clematis integrifolia (Entire-leaved 

 C.) A very ornamental dwarf herb, j 

 with entire leaves, 1 to 2 ft. high. 

 Flowers, in summer; purple; peduncles 

 long, terminal, usually I -flowered, 

 sometimes branched in the upper 



