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FLORA AND SYLVA 
There is an improved variety grandijiora, in 
w^hich the flowers are 3 to 4 inches across, and 
a fine new form rubens, introduced by Messrs. 
Veitch, of which we give a coloured plate 
with a short account by its introducer. 
C. ochroleuca. — An herbaceous species from 
the eastern states of North America, coming 
near C. integrifolia in habit and foliage, with 
stems I to 2 feet high and leaves silky beneath 
especially while young. The flowers are solitary 
and erect at the tips of the shoots, yellow out- 
side and creamy-white within, followed by 
plume-like seed-vessels. A scarce plant even 
in its own country. 
C. orientalis. — Yellow Virgins Bower. A 
plant climbing freely from 1 2 to 18 feet, with 
limp grey-green foliage cut into rounded leaf- 
lets of glossy texture and fragrant pale-yellow 
flowers in late summer and autumn. They 
are to 2 inches across, carried freely on 
slender stems, and in fine seasons continue very 
late, especially in places near the sea. Their 
colour varies from a dull yellow-green to clear 
pale yellow, for, covering a vast range in Asia, 
it occurs in several forms distinguished by a 
variety of names, such as glauca, Jiava, and 
graveo/ens. The pretty fragrant flowers are 
followed by silky seeds with long silvery tails, 
useful for mixing with autumn flowers. 
C. paniculata. — A vigorous climber from 
Japan and one of the best kinds in the south 
of England, though from its lateness in flower 
it does not thrive north of the Thames valley. 
It does best against a sunny house-front, where 
the wood is ripened and the flowers are sheltered 
from frost. These may then be cut in trails 
many feet in length, crowded with fragrant 
starry flowers i to i finches across of a creamy- 
white colour. The plant grows many feet in 
a season, hence the greater need for ripening 
and to be well cut back in spring. The flowers 
succeed those of C.fanunuhi and prolong their 
efi^ect into the autumn, being followed in fine 
seasons by clusters of seeds with a ruddy glow. 
The dark-green shiningleaves are cut into three 
or five leathery leaflets and keep their fresh- 
ness until the end of the season. 
C. patens. — As a parent of garden varieties 
this has played a part second only to C. lanu- 
ginosa^ but the old wild form is well-nigh for- 
gotten. It was sent out by Siebold many years 
ago from the gardens of Japan, but is perhaps 
a native of China. As a plant it is taller and 
more slender than lanuginosa., with leaves cut 
into three or five narrower leaflets, and pale 
mauve or blue flowers. Seedling forms with 
white and deep violet flowers are grown in 
gardens, and imported kinds are grandijiora, 
and Standislii., with light purple flowers 5 inches 
across. 
C. Pitcheri. — This belongs to the section 
with pitcher-shaped or tubular flowers, and 
is only worth growing in its best form. Stems 
of 6 to 8 feet, with bluish-green leaves com- 
posed of several pairs of rounded leaflets, and 
pitcher-shaped flowers covered with short 
hairs, coming singly at the ends of the main 
shoots. The flowers are often small and dingy; 
in the best forms they are an inch long and 
wide and bluish-purple, followed by clusters of 
downy reddish-purple fruits. Western United 
States. Syn. C. coloradensis. The variety Sar- 
genti has small flowers, and in variety lasiostylis 
there is no trace of yellow, the tips of the 
flowers being a deep purplish-blue and the seed- 
clusters larger and of richer colour. 
C. recta. — Oneof the best herbaceous kinds, 
with stout erect stems of 3 to 4 feet and masses 
of sweet white flowers an inch across, plenti- 
ful from June onwards and good for cutting 
though the stems are a trifle stiffs Several 
varieties are grown, including one with very 
double and more lasting flowers of a purer 
white ; an early-flowering kind with ruddy 
stems ; and lathryfolia., of tall habit and pro- 
fuse in flower. South Europe. Syn. C. erecta. 
C. reticulata. — A slender climber allied to 
crispa, with leathery much-veined leaves and 
solitary bell-shaped flowers of dull purple 
during June and July. In one form the flowers 
are dull yellow within and flushed dusky-red 
on the outside. Southern United States. 
C. Robertsiana. — A hardy kind brought by 
Dr. Aitchison from the mountains of Afghani- 
stan in 1879. Its flowers are large, 3 to 5 
inches across,and of a pale lemon-yellow colour 
nodding upon long erect stalks. This kind is 
as yet hardly known in gardens but should 
prove very useful, and is interesting as seem- 
ing to supply a link between the Atragene sec- 
tion of the genus and the true Clematis. 
C. tangutica. — Though sometimes classed as 
