4 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
4 C.F. 5 cespitésa Dec. C. cespitésa Scop., C. Flammula Bertol. — 
Leaflets minute, entire or cut. 
4 C. F. 6 paniculata. C. paniculata Thun. — Flowers with the peduncles 
simple. 
A vigorous-growing plant, the stems of which rapidly attain the length of 
from 15 ft. to 30 ft. in a state of culture. The leaves are subject to much 
variation, from soil, situation, and climate. The peduncles of the flowers are 
sometimes simple, and sometimes branched. The colour of the sepals is 
white, slightly pubescent on their exterior margins. The whole plant has a 
dark green hue; and in autumn it is abundantly covered with flowers, the 
odour of which is of a honied sweetness, exceedingly disagreeable to some 
persons when near, though at a distance it is not unlike the fragrance of the 
common hawthorn. From the rapidity of its growth, it will in four or five 
years cover a very large space of wall, roof, or bower. Its herbage is con- 
sidered less acrid than that of any other of the European species, notwith- 
standing its name of Flammula. 
2 2. C. orntenta‘iis L. The Oriental Clematis. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 765.; Dec. Prod., 1. p.3.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 4. 
S; i Fl a di apii folio glauco, Dill. Lith. 144.3 C. flava Moench. Meth. 296.; 
the Eastern, or yellow-flowered, Virgin’s Bower; C. gladca Willd.; C. ochroledca Hort. ; 
Clematite orientale, Fr.; Morgenlandische Waldrebe, Ger. 
Engravings. Dill. Elth., t. 119. f. 145. ; and our jig. 2. 
Spec.Char., §c. Leaves pinnate; LZ 
leaflets smooth, wedge-shaped, YW 2 
with three toothed pointed <a. if ZA 
lobes. (Don’s Mill.) A decidu- LAN S 
ous climber. Levant and Cau- BY y) p ( 
casus. Height 10 ft. to 15 ft. \ ws TES VW si () 
Introduced in 1731. Flowers 2B Wy qs BC <p Y 
greenish yellow slightly tint- > aa _ KY 
ed with russet, sweet-scented; i 
/ 
July, August. Fruit white ; DZ 
ripe in October. Leaves 
somewhat glaucous, dying off 
black or dark-brown. 
Varieties. C. glatica Willd. and 
C. ochroleuca Hort. are, by 
some, alleged to be varieties 
of C. orientalis; but we do 
not consider them sufficiently 
distinct for varieties, and have, 
therefore, included these 
names in our synonymes. 
The general magnitude of this 
species resembles that of C. 
Flammula, from which it differs 
in its ulterior branches being 
more persistently _ igneous, 
though the main stem in old 
plants is seldom seen so thick as 
that of C. Flammula. It is also 
distinguished from the latter 
species by throwing up suckers 
freely, which the other does 
not. Its leaflets are glaucous, 
flat, large as compared with 
those of C. Flammula; and it 2 Clematis orientalis. 
does not produce flowers so profusely as that species. The flowers are yel- 
