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65925. CLEMATIS BREVICAUDATA . From Harbin, Manchuria. Collected by P. H. Dorset!, 

 Agricultural Explorer. A vigorous climbing vine, native to China, 77ith pinnate or 

 bipinnate, coarsely toothed leaves and axillary panicles of small white flowers. 

 Probably hardy throughout the United States. (Bell, Md.) 



72793 CLEMATIS CHRYSOCOMA SERICEA. From England. Presented by Dr. A. W. Hill. 

 Director, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. An ornamental Chinese vine about 20 feet high 

 '.7ith silky hairy rounded leaves and solitary or paired white flowers 3 to 4 inches 

 across. For trial throughout the United States. (Chico, Calif.) 



76109. CLEMATIS GLAUCA AKEBIOIDES. From Nogent-sur-Vernisson, Loiret, France. Pre- 

 sented by L. Parde. A slender climber up to 10 feet high, native to western China. 

 The pinnate leaves have 2-3 lobed ovate leaflets and the flowers are bronze-yellow. 

 Probably hardy except in the extreme north. (Bell, Md., and Chico, Calif.) 



■37026. CLEMATIS RECTA MAMDSHURICA. From Paris. France. Presented by Vilmorin- 

 ^ndrieux & Co . A tall slender herbaceous purple-leaved perennial with terminal and 

 axillary panicles of small pure white flowers. The typical form is native to Man- 

 churia. Probably hardy throughout the United States. (Bell, Md.) 



76111. CLEMATIS SERRATIFOLIA . From Nogent-sur-Vernisson, Loiret, France. Presented 

 by L. Parde. A handsome woody climber up to 10 feet high, native to Korea. The 

 bright-green leaves are biternate and the long-stalked, nodding yellow flowers with 

 purple filaments are 2 inches across and appear in late summer. Probably hardy 

 throughout the United States. (Bell, Md., and Chico, Calif.) 



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74615. CLEMATIS spp . From Tientsin, China. Presented by Rev. B. M. Flory, Church 

 of the Brethren Mission. Hardy climbers, to be tested for their ornamental value. 

 (Bell. Md.) 



S3396. COLUMNEA VEDRARIENSIS . From Paris, France. -Purchased from Vilmorin-Andrieus 

 & Co . A hybrid between Columnea magnifica and C. schiediana . The parents of this 

 hybrid are tropical American herbaceous climbers with scarlet and yellow flowers. 

 For trial in southern Florida. (Bell, Md.) 



56024. CORNUS OFFICINALIS. Dogwood. From Rochester, New York. Presented by John 

 Dunbar. Like Cornus Mas . this Chinese shrub has yellow flowers and red fruits, but 

 differs in having conspicuous patches of dense rust-colored down on the lower surfaces 

 of the leaves, in being somewhat coarser in habit and in ripening its fruits in Octo- 

 ber and November. Probably hardy throughout the United States. (Bell, Md.) 



68977 CORYLUS HETEROPHYLLA . Hazel. From Heilungkiang Province, Manchuria. Col- 

 \ lected by F. H. Dorsett. Agricultural Explorer. A hardy shrubby hazel which sometimes 



grows to be 12 feet high with nuts more than iinch long. Native to Manchuria. 

 (Bell. Md.) 



52677. COTONSASTER DAMMERI RADICANS. From China. Presented by Vilmorin-Andrieux & 

 Co., Paris. France. A creeping shrub, half-evergreen at Washington. D. C, forming 

 an open mass of slender stems. Flowers large and white but less showy than the scarlet 

 fruits. Will not flourish in dry situations. (Bell, Md.) 



