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varieties, when grown in large masses, are hignly orna- 
mental. The varieties of C. elegans are those with purple 
and rose-colored flowers; also, double-purple, rose, flesh 
color and white. It is sometimes called C. rosea. 
C. rhombéidea.—Entire petaled, or C. gauroides—This 
is also an annual, growing about two feet high. The flow- 
ers are an inch across, purple and white, near the bottom 
of each petal, spotted with white. All the varieties are 
fine for bouquets, as the foliage, as well as the flowers, is 
delicate and pretty. 
CLEMATIS,—Virew’s Bower. 
{From the Greek, for tendril; in allusion to the climbing habits of most of 
the species.] 
The species are mostly climbing shrubs, or herbaceous 
perennials, of rapid growth, free bloomers, very ornamen- 
tal, and some are highly odoriferous. 
Clématis Virginiéna is a native plant, well known as a 
great climber, growing profusely upon the banks of our 
rivers and wet places; taking possession and covering all 
the shrubs in its neighborhood, to which it attaches itself 
by its petioles, (which are given off, at intervals, in pairs,) 
twining round objects for support, and serving the pur- 
pose of tendrils. The flowers are white, borne in cymes, 
and make a handsome appearance the beginning of August. 
The most remarkable appearance of this plant is when in 
fruit; the long feathery tails of the fruits separating like 
tufts of wool. It grows twenty feet or more in a season, 
most of the stem perishes, leaving but a small shrubby 
portion. It makes an appropriate covering for an arbor 
or wall; for, whether in flower or fruit, it is ornamental. 
¢. erécta is strictly an herbaceous plant, growing from 
three to four feet high, producing large clusters of white 
