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CYBELE HIBEENICA. 



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DICOTYLEDONES OR EXOGENJ]. 



ORDER I.— RANUNCULACE^. 



, CLEMATIS Linn. 



1. * C. Vitalba (Lmn)— Traveller's Joy. 

 Districts -2^C^5-1----- 



Woods and hedges, also on sandhills ; rare, and a very 

 doubtful native. Fl. August, September. 



2. On trees and hedges about Castlemartyr (certainly 

 introduced) Flor. Cork. — 3. Roadside hedges at Clinstown, 

 Kilkenny ; and Bordwell, Queen's county ; (perhaps planted) 

 Reo. S. Madden. — 5. On the sandhills at Portrane, opposite 

 Malahide, sparingly, and in one place only ; D.M. — 7. Abun- 

 dant in woods at Baronston, Westmeath, probably planted ; 

 Flor. Hib, (Occurs in hedges near Dublin, but only where 

 it has been planted.) 



The station at Portrane is the only one in which there is 

 any probability of the Clematis being native ; and even here 

 the seed may have been conveyed from plants cultivated in 

 the vicinity. In the Appendix to Threlkeld's "Synopsis 

 Stirpium Hibernicarum" (1726), Dr. Thomas Molyneux says 

 that he could never meet with the Viorna or Traveller's Joy 

 in Ireland. 



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