2 EANONCDLACE.K. [Clematis. 



unsymmetrical (hooded, spurred or tubular), sometimes wanting, 

 minute or partly deficient by abortion. Stamens commonly 

 numerous and indefinite, rarely few and definite (5—10) ; anthers 

 adnate mostly extrorse. Ovules anatropous. Fruit consisting 

 either of many dry indehiscent 1 -seeded carpels arranged on a 

 receptacle, or of several (3—5 or more) few- or many-seeded 

 dehiscent capsules (follicles) ; more rarely united succulent or 

 baccate. Seeds erect or pendulous ; embryo minute m the base 

 of the firm albumen. 



Tribe I. Clcmatklece. 

 Estivation valvate or induplicate. Petals or imperfect and 

 stamen-like, {Gray). Carpels numerous, 1-seeded, tailed with the 

 feathery or silky persistent stj'le. Seeds^ pendulous. Leaves 

 opposite. Stems mostly shrubby and climbing. 



I. Clematis, Linn. Virgin's Bower. 



Sepals 4 (rarely more), coloured. Petals 0. Carpels indehis- 

 cent, tailed. 



Ornamental but acrid perennials, native to the warmer pai-ts of the temperate 

 zone in all quarters of the globe, erect or climbing, more or less shrubby, rarely 

 herbaceous, with variously decompounded, ternate or pinnate, sometimes simple 

 leaves, and solitary or panicled, perfect or subdioicous, white, blue or purple 

 flowers, that are sometimes fragrant. 



1. C. Vitalba, L. Common Virgin's Boiver. Travellers Joy. 

 Old Mans Beard. —Bedvfine, Vect. Stem shrubby climbing, 

 leaves pinnate their petioles twining, leaflets 5 — 7 mostly cor- 

 date -ovate incised serrate 3-lobed or entire, panicles forked 

 shorter than the leaves, flowers perfect. Br. Fl. p. 4. E. B. 

 t. 612. 



In woods, hedges and thickets, abundantly. FL July — September. Fr. Octo- 

 ber, November. Tj . 



E. Med.- — Frequent about Ryde, in Quarr copse, lane between Binstead 

 church and the Newport road ; old stone-pits at Binstead, near Stonelands, &c. 

 In profusion all over East End, and throughout the UnderclifF. Hedges on 

 Ashey Down and about Brading. 



W.Med. — About Cowes, Yarmouth, Newport, Carisbrook, Westover, New- 

 bridge, and wherever the soil is calcareous, occurring in the greatest plenty. 



Stem very woody, long and twisted, often exceeding the thickness of the wrist 

 at its origin, climbing over trees and bushes, or hanging from rocks and walls. 

 Leaves opposite, deciduous, imparipinnate. Leaflets large, hi- or more rarely tri- 

 jugate, distant, stalked, ovale or cordato-ovate, firm and coriaceous, glabrous, 

 except when young, more or less waved and twisted, submucronato-acuminate, 

 their points deflexed or revolute, reticulato-venose, with 5 strong nerves beneath. 

 Stipules none. Petioles angular, flexuose, both the common and partial ones 

 often acting as tendrils or clasping. Flowers greenish white or somewhat cream- 

 coloured, slightly scented, but scarcely deserving of being called fragrant, in axil- 

 lary and terminal, often leafy, trichotomously branched paniculate clusters, 

 shorter than the leaves, and of which the lateral ones are on long, naked, straight, 

 opposite, nearly erect peduncles, which are swollen at the base. Bracts in pairs 

 about the middle or towards the base of the pedicels, and subtending the forks of 

 the clusters, the former small, lanceolate, entire, the latler leafy, lobed or 



