CLEMATIS 
hardy plant, from which florists have obtained a large number of 
handsome varieties and hybrids. The deservedly popular JacJcmanni is 
one of these. 
C. Florida (florid). Introduced from Japan one hundred and twenty 
years ago. Flowers large, solitary, pure white, from the ripened wood in 
spring and summer. The leaf is divided into from three to nine oval 
leaflets, hairy on both surfaces. There is a double form (flore pleno), 
besides several ornamental varieties and hybrids. 
C. INDIVISA (undivided) was introduced from New Zealand nearly 
fifty years ago. Flowers creamy or white, in panicles; April. Leaves 
leathery, smooth, of three entire-margined, oval leaflets, each ending in 
a hard point. A rapid grower, but as it is only half-hardy it should be 
restricted to conservatoiy decoration. There is a variety, G. indivisa 
lobata, differing from the type only in that the leaflets are lobed. 
C. LANUGINOSA (downy). A native of China (introduced 1851). 
Leaves broad, heart-shaped, smooth above and woolly below; the lower 
ones divided into three leaflets. It has magnificent pale blue flowers, 
sometimes exceeding 8 inches across, appearing from June to October. 
The var. pallida has even larger flowers. 
C. Montana (mountain). Native of the Himalayas (1831). Flowers 
smaller than in the preceding species, white, and in their form and size 
suggestive of Anemones; borne in clusters from the axils of the ripened 
wood. It attains a height of 20 feet, and flowers from May to July. 
C. patens (spreading). Native of China and Japan (introduced 1836). 
Stems wiry, free growing. The leaves are divided into three leaflets, 
smooth above and hairy beneath. Flowers, pale violet-blue, 6 inches 
across, springing from the ripe wood in June and again in autumn. It 
is one of the parents of many fine hybrids. Other names for it are 
ccerulea and azv/rea. 
C. VlTALBA (white vine) is our own native Old Man’s Beard or 
Traveller’s Joy, so plentiful on English hedges. The flowers are only 
an inch across, of a greenish white colour, slightly fragrant; July to 
September, followed by the more conspicuous greybeards produced by 
the development of the feathered styles. 
C. Viticella (vine bower), already referred to as the earliest exotic 
species introduced. It is very strong and hardy, and therefore is often 
selected as a stock upon which to graft less vigorous sorts. Leaves 
undivided, or with three to twelve leaflets. Flowers smaller even than 
those of Vitalba , blue, purple, or rosy, drooping, produced throughout 
the summer. This has been frequently used by the hybridisers, and its 
crossed progeny are mostly large-flowered. 
