POLYANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Clematis. 39 



than the germens. Stigmas simple. Seeds numerous, 

 ovate, compressed, placed on a capitate receptacle, and 

 tipped with the permanent styles, becoming, generally 

 feathery, tails. 



Roots fibrous. Stems shrubby and climbing ; rarely herba- 

 ceous or erect. Leaves opposite, for the most part re- 

 peatedly compound, with twiningybo^s/a^/(-5. Fl. panicled, 

 terminal or axillary, rarely solitary, sometimes brac- 

 teated ; cream-coloured, white, yellowish, or purple ; in 

 some species fragrant. 



Notwithstanding the utmost dissimilarity of habit, the most 

 attentive botanists have found great difficulty in esta- 

 blishing a clear generic distinction between this genus 

 and Anemone. I acknowledge myself obliged to the ex- 

 cellent M. DeCandoUe for pointing out the difference of 

 their sestivation ; see Grammar 22. 



1. C. Vitalha. Common Traveller's Joy. 



Leaves pinnate ; leaflets heart-shaped, partly cut. Foot- 

 stalks twining, permanent. Panicles forked, not longer 

 than the leaves. 



C. Vitalba. Linn. Sp. PI. 766. TVilld. v. 2. 1292. Fl. Br. 583. 



Engl.Bot.v.9.t.6\2. Curt.Lond.fasc. 4. t.37. Hook.Scot.l7l. 



DeCand. Sijst. v. 1. 139. Jacq. Austr. t. 308. Bull. Fr. t. 89. 



Ehrh. PL Off. 346. 

 C. n. 1142. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 59. 

 C. latifolia, seu Atragene quibusdam. Rail Syn. 258. Bauh. Hist. 



v.2.125. f,f. 

 C. a\tera. Matth.Valgr.v. 2. 306./. 

 C. tertia. Camer. Epit. 697./. 

 Viorna. Ger. Em. 886. /. Lob. Ic. 626./. 

 Vitis nigra. Fuchs. Hist.97./. Ic.53./. 

 Vitalba. Dod. Pempt. 404./. 



In hedges, especially on a calcareous soil. 



Shrub. July. 



Stems woody, angular, climbing to a great extent, or pendulous 

 from broken precipices or old walls, branched, entangled, sup- 

 ported on other shrubs by their permanent, hardened, twining 

 /ootstalks. Leaves deciduous ; their leaflets 5, stalked, heart- 

 shaped, pointed, finely hairy, either quite entire, unequally cut, 

 or coarsely serrated. Panicles axillary and terminal. Forked, 

 many- flowered, downy. Fl. white, with a sweet almond-like 

 scent. Pet. 4, most downy at the outside. Seeds with long, 

 wavy, feathery and silky tails, forming beautiful tufts, conspicu- 

 ous in wet weather. They retain their vegetative principle for 

 many years, if kept dry. 



