LECTUKE III. 



SHRUBS OF GREECE AND ITALY BELONGING TO THE 

 FOLLOWING GENERA: 



CLEMATIS BEI1BEBIS CHEIEANTHUS CAPPAEIS CISTUS 

 DIANTHUS LINUM HTPEEICUM HIBISCUS TITIS EUTA 



COEIAEIA STAPHTLEA EUONTMUS ILEX ZIZTPHTJS 



EHAMNUS PISTACIA EHUS ULEX SPAETIUM CTTISUS 



CEEATONIA COLTJTEA AKAGYEIS COEONILLA MEDI- 



CAQO PSOEALEA ANTHTLLIS ONONIS ASTEAGALUS 



HEDTSAEUM LOTUS ACACIA EOSA EUBUS PEUNUS 



AMTGD ALUS POTE EIUM ME SPILUS PYEUS TAM AEIX 



EIBES BUPLEUEUM PHILADELPHUS SEMPEETIVUM 



MTETUS HEDEEA SAMBUCUS LONICEEA SCABIOSA 



EENODEA COXTZA SAKTOLINA AETEMISIA SE5TECIO 



GNAPHALIUM ST-SHELINA CENTAUEEA CINEEAEIA. 



T NOW proceed to the identification of the shrubs 

 noticed in ancient writers, including all that 

 are mentioned by Sibthorp in his Flora Grceca as 

 indigenous in Greece, and by Manetti, quoted in 

 Loudon's Arboretum, vol. iv., as now growing in 

 Italy, omitting from the latter list those which 

 are clearly of exotic origin. 



The plants are named in the order in which they 

 occur in the Natural System. 



CLEMATIS. 



The eight shrubby species of Clematis now recog- 

 nised by botanists as growing in Italy appear all to 

 have been comprehended by the Latins under the 

 term of Clematis, and the four noticed by Sibthorp in 

 Greece under that of KA^/xarmy ; appellations given 

 to them from K\f)fj,a, a vine-twig, or from their 



