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CLEMATIS. (Virgin's Bower, oil Traveller's Joy.) 



Gen. Char. (Polyandria Polygynia.) Calyx of four or six parts, 

 coloured ; stamens below the germen ; filaments dilated at the 

 apex ; anthers two-celled ; style downy and feathery. 



Named from the Greek for tendril, as the leaf-stalk has the 

 power of clasping any object within reach ; this circumstance 

 renders it very necessary to train these plants early, or they 

 cling together and become an inextricable mass of confusion. 

 There are many well known hardy species which are ex- 

 tremely ornamental in the garden, several which require 

 stove-heat, and the following are very useful and beautiful in 

 the greenhouse : — C. coriacea, aristata, and stenosepala, from 

 Australia, with white flowers, and cliterioides with purple ; 

 hedysanfolia, from Nepaul ; and hrachiata, from the Cape ; 

 indivisa is a native of New Zealand, and a very ornamental 

 species for the greenhouse, particularly the variety called 

 lobata; it is a climbing plant, with its leaves divided into 

 three parts ; the flowers in copious panicles, very large, of 

 a creamy- white colour, and drooping ; the stamens have 

 yellow filaments and deep rose-coloured anthers, these gra- 

 dually become of a deep purple hue ; in its native country 

 this lovely plant " quite festoons the trees and shrubs with. 



