PENTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Vinca. 339 



Clematis. Camer. Epit. 694./. 



C. daphnoides. Dod.Pempt. 405./. Lob. Ic. 635./. 



In bushy places, and about hedges and banks, but rare. 



By Honingham church, Norfolk, on a bank facing the south, plen- 

 tifully ; also in several lanes in that parish, undoubtedly wild. 

 Mr. Crowe. Abundant at Raleigh, Essex. Rev. R. B. Franc i 

 Near Rippon, Yorkshire. Rev. James Dalton. 



Perennial. May. 



Root creeping. Herb very smooth. Stems round, trailing ; the 

 flowering branches simple, leafy, erect. Leaves dark shining 

 green, on short stalks, opposite, without stipidas. Fl. solitary, 

 an inch wide, of a fine violet blue. Fruit scarcely seen in En- 

 gland. There is a white-flowered variety in gardens, having va- 

 riegated leaves ; and another with double, more purple flowers, 

 well figured and described in Camer. Epit. 695. 



2. V. major. Greater Periwinkle, 



Stems ascending. Leaves ovate, fringed. I'lowers stalked. 

 Segments of the calyx bristle-shaped, elongated. 



V. major. Lbm. Sp. PI. 304. Willd.v. 1. 1233. FI. Br. 270. Engl 

 hot. V. S. ^ 5 1 4. Curt. Lond.fasc. 4. t. 1 9. Hook. Scot. 82. Ehrh. 

 Jrb. 112. 



Pervinca n. 573. Hall. Hist. i;. ) . 246. 



P. vulgaris latlfolia, flore caeruleo. Garid. Prov. t.8]. 



Clematis. Matth. J'algr.v.2.305.f. 



C. daphnoides major. Bauh. Pin. 302. Raii Syn. 268. Ger. Em. 

 894./ Dod. Pempt. 406./ 



C. sive Pervinca major. Lob. Ic. 636./ 



In thickets and groves, especially on a wet soil. 



Perennial. May. 



Nearly twice as large, in every part, as the former. Stems branched, 

 ascending while in flower; afterwards procumbent, and taking 

 root near the extremity. Leaves fringed with short rigid hairs. 

 Fl. of a lighter blue. Cal. very narrow, mostly fringed with 

 coarse hairs. Follicles unequal, filled with several large whitish 

 seeds, one above another. 



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