genres, 
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‘BRITISH HERBAL! 
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It is a native of Switzerland, and fome parts 
of Germany, where it lives in the moft barren 
forefts ; but the flower is not fo confiderable there 
as in our gardens. It flowers in fpring. 
(G Bauhine calls it Pulfatilla apii this vernalis 
flore majore. 
2. Small-flowered Pafqueflower, 
Pulfatilla flore minore violaceo. 
The root is long, thick, dark coloured, acrid 
to the tafte, and furnifhed with large fibres. 
The leaves ftand on fhort footftalks, and are 
divided into numerous very long and very nar- 
row fegments. Their colour is a faint green ; 
and their footftalks, towards the bottom, are 
purplith, 
The ftalks are numerous, and each fuftaing 4 
fingle flower. They are hairy, and altogether 
without leaves except one at the upper part, 
which, as in the other fpecies, furrounds the ftalk 
at its bottom; and upwards dividing into nume- 
rous, fine fegments; ftands-as a leat of cup to 
the flower. 
The flower itfelf is {mall, aia hangs down- 
ward. It is compofed ‘of fix oblong. narrow 
pointed leaves, whofe tops turn.up. . Its colour 
is a deep violet blue, almoft black. 
The feeds follow in a clufter, and are covered 
with fine filvery down. 
It is a native of the northern parts of Europe, 
and flowers in April. 
J Bauhine calls it Pulfatilla fore caruleo claufo, 
and C, Bauhine Pulfatilla flore minore nigircante. 
GE ANG Uso VILL 
CLIMBER. 
COP AMEN ATT Bea a “ 
HE flower of clematis confifts of four petals, and has no cup: 
dages refembling feathers. 
ce the feeds have long Aapperis 
Linneus places this among the polyandria palygynia, uniting with it, under the ‘fame name, thé 
flammula and viticella ; although, according to his own account, they differ plainly; the flammula 
in the number of thofe parts, he makes effential to the generical character ; thofe he calls clematis hav- 
ing a great number of piftils, and the fammula but eight. 
DIVISION I. 
1. Travellers joy. 
Viarna, 
The root is browns. thick, and full of bres. 
The firft leaves are fmall and flightly divided. 
The {talks are thick, hard, woody, of an an- 
‘gular fhape, and the younger ones hairy, and 
often redifh. The others have a white rind; and 
they are very tough, and formed for twifting 
round every thing they come near. 
The leaves ftand two at a joint, and are pin- 
nated; each confifting of two pairs of f{maller 
leaves, and an odd one at the end of the ftalk. 
Thefe are oval, flightly ferrated, and pointed 
at the end. Their colour is a pale green, and 
their fubftance firm. : 
The flowers are white. They ftand in 
tufts, and are fmall: each is compofed of four 
leaves, whitifh, and of a fweet fmell. In the 
DIVISION UW. 
1. Spanifh Viorna. 
Clematis Beatica, 
The root is long, not thick, woody, brown, 
and of an acrid tafte. 
The firft leaves are fimple, and undivided, 
They much refemble thofe of the pear-tree, only 
they are indented at the edge. 
The ftalks. are very flender, and of a vatt 
length, whitifh, woody, and with an uneven rind. 
The leaves ftand three, four, five, or more, ata 
joint. They are of an oval fhape, and dented 
at the edges; and each has its feparate, longitfh, 
and flender pedicle. 
flance, and fhining green. 
At the fame joints where thefe ftand, there 
grow conftantly two tendrils; one parts cach 
FOREIGN 
They are of a firm fub- 
BRITISH SPECIES: 
centre is a tuft of threads; and, when the feed 
ripens, it ftands in a naked clufter, bearded with 
fine long filvery hairs. 
[tis frequent in our hedges, and | aah Go in 
July. 
J. Bauhine calls it Clematis latifolia, five atra” 
gene quibufdam. C. Bauhine, Clematitis dyvefiris 
latifolia. 
Authors have defcribed two or three accidental 
varieties of this plant, under the name of diftin® — 
fpecies, 
We fee the laives ciate sethas undivided, aol 
fometimes broader than is ufual. The Clematitis 
Slvefris latifolia, and Clematitis latifolia inte- 
gra, of C. Bauhine, are only two of thefe vatie- 
ties. Thefe are not unfrequent in our hedges 
among the common kind: but we have only this 
one Britith fpecies. 
§. PB CG. de BS 
way from the ftalk ; and they are very firm and 
tough, Thefe lay hold of any thing to fupport 
the plant, and the leaves feem to rife from their 
bofom. 
The flowers are fmall and whitifh, and the 
feeds have a long beard of filvery down. 
It isa native of Spaia, and other warm parts 
of Europe, “where it covers whole trees, It 
flowers in June, and its feeds ripen in Auguft. 
J. Bauhine calls it Clematis Betica clsfii and 
C. Bauhine Clematis peregrina foliis pyri incifis. 
The foreign and Britith clematis agree in their 
nature and qualities as well as form. They are 
acrid, and too fharp for internal ufe; but an oil 
made of the leaves, infufed in oil of olives, is 
efteemed good in the {ciatica. 
GENUS 
