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slender peduncles, which render them more obvious; and, as in the case 

 of all the large-flowered species of Clematis, are most favourably seen when 

 they are somewhat above the eye. -The double-flowered variety is pro- 

 duced by the change of stamens into petals. The single flowers have no 

 petals, but only sepals. C. Vitice'lla, and all its varieties, are tolerably robust 

 and vigorous in their growth, and decidedly ligneous ; though plants indi- 

 vidually do not endure many years, pro- ^^ ^ 19 

 bably owing to their exhausting the soil in 

 which they grow. Perhaps no mode of 

 disposing plants of this species, for enjoy- 

 ing the effect of their flowers, is preferable 

 to that of planting them so that their 

 branches may be trained over a frame or 

 fence of trellis-work, with both sides free ; 

 in which case the clematis will grow and 

 spread so rapidly as to render the fence or 

 hedge in a short time quite a wall of green. 



Geography, History, $c. Found in the ^ /^^s^*'/]/ 



south of Europe, in hedges and among s^-ss A/£> 



bushes, particularly in Spain, Portugal, 

 Carniola, &c. It was cultivated in Eng- 

 land in 1569, by Mr. Hugh Morgan, being one of the earliest introduced 

 plants on record. This species is perhaps the most beautiful and most 

 estimable of all the kinds of clematis, for the purposes of floral decoration. 

 For the mere covering of bowers and other objects, it is less suited than 

 C. Vitalba, virginiana, or perhaps even Flammula, as they grow faster, extend 

 farther, and each yields a greater aggregate of herbage, and so covers better : 

 but none of them can vie with C. Viticella and its varieties in beauty ; more 

 especially with the single purple and the single blue. The size of the 

 flowers ; their being projected on peduncles just long enough to make them 

 obvious beyond the foliage; their being numerous; their conspicuous colour, 

 and their transparency, render their effect extremely beautiful, especially when 

 seen in masses with the sun shining behind them. C. Viticella is more ge- 

 nerally cultivated than any of the other species, and may be purchased 

 in all the principal nurseries of Europe. The 

 price, in London, is 25s. a hundred for all the 

 varieties, except the double purple, which is 75s. a 

 hundred ; at Bollwyller the species is 80 cents, 

 and the double-flowered variety 2 francs 50 cents ; 

 and in New York,?. 



1 15. C. campaniflo v ra Brot. The bell-flowered 

 Clematis. 



Identification. Brot. Flor. Lus., 3. p. 352. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 9. ; 



Don's Mill., 1. p. 9. ; D. Don. in Sw. Br. Fl.-Gard., 2. s. 217. 

 Synonymes. C. viorno'ides, received at the Chelsea Botanic Garden 



by this name from the Berlin Botanic Garden (D. Don, in Sw. 



Fl.-Gard., 2d ser., t. 217.) ; C. viornoMes Schroder, Hort. Brit. y 



No. 28757.; C. parviflbra Dec, according to Sweet. 

 Engravings. Lod. Bot. Cab., 987. ; Sw. Br. FL-Gard., 2d series, 



t. 217. ; and our fig. 20. 



Spec. Char. Peduncles 1 -flowered, somewhat longer 

 than the leaves. Leaves biternately decompound ; 

 leaflets entire, or 3-lobed. Sepals half spread- 

 ing, dilated at the apex, wavy. (Don's Mill., i. 

 p. 9.) Portugal. Flowers white tinged with 

 purple. June and July. 1810. Height 10 ft. 



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Description. The habit of growth of this plant is 

 entirely that of C. Viticella, to which it also comes 

 nearest in affinity; but the much smaller flowers, 

 and pointed sepals connivent below, will readily distinguish it. (Sw. Br. Fl.- 

 Gard.;2d series, t. 217.) De Candolle states that this is an intermediate species 

 between C. Viticella and C. crispa. 



