I. RANUNCULA CE@: CLEMATIS. 11 
p- 147.; C. bicolor Hort. ; and our jig. 14. ; 
-1s in all respects the same as the last, except 
that the petals, or centre of the flower, are 
of arich violet colour, approaching to purple. 
It was sent from Japan to Europe by Dr. 
Sieboldt ; and introduced into England in 
1836. It is a most ornamental plant, and as 
hardy and easily propagated as the other va- 
riety or the epecies. 
and striated; climbing 
to the height of 15 ft. 
or upwards when it is 
trained to ua wall with a favourable exposure, 
though never becoming very woody. The flowers 
are large and handsome, either in a single or 
double state ; and these, with the neatness of its 
foliage, and the slenderness of its stems and 
branches, give it such an air of elegance, that no 
lover of plants should be without it, who has a 
# garden in which it will thrive. North of London 
7 it requires a wall; and in Scotland, as well as 
in France and Germany, it is generally kept in 
the green-house. A mode of pruning plants of 
this species, by cutting them down to the ground 
15. Clématis flérida. annually, though not generally practised, 1s said 
to produce vigorous shoots and fine flowers. This species never ripens seeds 
in England, and is therefore only propagated by layers. 
14, C. flérida fl. pl. violaceo. 
212. C.ceru‘Lea Lindl. The blue, or violet-flowered, Clematis. 
Identification. Lindl., in Bot. Reg., t. 1955. 
Synonymes. C. azirea grandiflora Sieb.; C grandifldra Hort. 
Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1955.; and our fig. 16. 
Spec. Char.,§c. Leaves spreading, hairy, ternate. 
Segments ovate-acute, entire. Peduncles 1- 
flowered. Sepals 6 to 8, oblong, lanceolate, 
acute, membranaceous. Margin distended. 
(Lindl.) A deciduous climber. Japan. Height 
10 ft. to 12 ft. Introduced in 1836. Flowers 
blue; June and July. Fruit ?. 
A free-growing and profuse-blooming plant, 
with the habit of C. flérida. Flowers large, 
violet-coloured, with deep purple stamens. It 
differs from C. flérida in the colour, delicacy, 
and transparency of its blossoms, and also in 
its leaves being only once ternate, and in the 
sepals not touching and overlapping each other 
at the edges. Culture and propagation as in 
C. florida. 1G. Clématis cxerillea 
B13. C. Vitice’tta L. The Vine-Bower Clematis. 
ification. . Sp. a . Prod., 1. p.9. 3 Don’s Mill., 1. p. 9. mae 
ran oa ERM caitien Weak : the red-flowered Lady’s Bower, Gerard; Italienische 
Waidrebe, Ger. 
Engravings. Flor. Grac., t. 516. ; Bot. Mag., t. 565. ; and our fig. 17. 
Spec. Char., §c. Peduncles 1-flowered, longer than the leaves. Leaves 
ternately decompound, lobes or leaflets entire. Sepals obovate, spreading. 
(Don’s Mill.) A deciduous climber. _ South of Europe, in hedges, on 
calcareous soil. Height 10 ft. to 15 ft. Introduced in 1569. Flowers blue 
