The BRITISH HERBAL. 
It is a native oi' Switzerland, and Ibme parts 
of Germany, where it lives ia the moft barren 
Ibrefts ; but the flower is not fo confiderable there 
as in our gardens. It flowers in fpring. 
C. Bauhine calls it Pulfatilla apH folio vernalis 
fere mijore. 
2. Small-flowered Pafqueflower, 
Pulfatilla fiore minore violaceo. 
The root is long, thick, dark coloured, acrid 
to the tafte, and furnifhed with large fibres. 
The leaves fland on fllort footftalks, and are 
divided into numerous very long and very nar- 
row fegmencs. Their colour is a faint green ; 
and their footftalks, towards the bottom, are 
purplifh. 
The ftalks are numerous, and each fuftains a 
fmgle flower. They are hairy, and altogether 
without leaves except one at the upper part* 
wiiich, as in the other fpecies, furrounds the flalk 
at its bottom; and upwards dividing into nume- 
rous, fine fegments, ftands as a kind of cup to 
the flower. 
The flower itfelf is finall, and hangs down- 
ward. It is compofcd of fix oblong, narrow 
pointed leaves, whole tops turn up. Its colour 
is a deep violet blue, almofl: black. 
The feeds follow in a clufl:er, and are covered 
with fine filvery down. 
It is a native of the northern parts of Europe, 
and flowers in April. 
J. Bauhine calls it Pulfatilla fiorc caruleo claufo^ 
and C. Bauhine Pulfatilla flore nunore nigircante^ 
GENUS VIII. 
CLIMBER. 
CLEMATIS. 
*T^HE 'flower of clematis conflfts of four petals, and has no cup : and the feeds have long appen- 
dages refembling feathers. 
Linnsus places this among the polyandria polygynia, uniting with it, under the fame name, the 
fiammula and viticeiia ; although, according to his own account, they differ plainly ; the flammula 
in the number of thofe parts, he makes eflential to the generical character : thofe he calls clematis hav- 
ing a great number of piftils, and the flammula but eight. 
DIVISION I. 
BRITISH SPECIES: 
I. Travellers joy. 
P'iorna. 
The root is brown, thick, and full of flbres. 
The fiift leaves are fmall and fiightly divided. 
The ftalks are thick, hard, woody, of an an- 
gular lhape, and the younger ones hairy, and 
okenredifli. The Others have a white rind; and 
they are very tough, and formed for twifliing 
round every thing they come near. 
The leaves iland two at a joint, and are pin- 
nated i each confining of two pairs of fmaller 
leaves, and an odd one at the end of the flalk. 
Thefe are oval, fiightly ferrated, and pointed 
at the end. Their colour is a pale green, and 
their fubllance firm. 
The flowers are white. They fl;and in 
tufts, and are fmall : each is compofed of four 
leaves, whitifli, and of a fweet fmell. In the 
centre is a tuft of threads ; and, when the feed 
ripens, it fliands in a naked clulkr, bearded with 
fine long filvery hairs. 
It is frequent in our hedges, and flowers in 
July. 
J. Bauhine calls it Clematis lalifoUa^ five atra' 
gem qiiihiifiam, C. Bauhine, Clemalitis fyhejlris 
lati folia. 
Autlrors have defcribed two or three accidental 
varieties of this plant, under the name of dillinft 
fpecies. 
We fee the leaves fometlmes undivided, and 
fometimes broader than is ufual. The Clemalitis 
fyhcftrts latifolia, and Ckmatitis latifoUa inte- 
gral of C. Bauhine, are only two of thefe varie- 
ties. Thefe are not unfrequent in our hedges 
among the common kind : but we have only this 
one Britifh fpecies. 
DIVISION II. 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
I. Spanifh Viorna. 
Clematis B^ttca. 
The root is long, not thick, woody, brown, 
. and of an acrid tafl:e. 
The firft leaves are fimple, and undivided. 
They much refemble thofe of the pear-tree, only 
they are indented at the edge. 
The ftalks are very flender, and of a vaft 
length, whitifli, woody, and with an uneven rind. 
The leaves ftand three, four, five, or more, at a 
joint. They are of an oval fliape, and dented 
at the edges ; and each has its feparate, longifii, 
and flender pedicle. They are of a firm fub- 
ftance, and fhining green. 
Ac the fame joints where thefe ftand, there 
grow confl:ant!y two tendrils ; one parts each 
way from the flalk ; and they are very firm and 
tough. Thefe lay hold of any thing to fupport 
the plant, and the leaves feem to rife from their 
bofom. 
The flowers are fmall and whitiih, and the 
feeds have a long beard of filvery down. 
It is a native of Spain, and other warm parts 
of Europe, where it covers whole trees. It 
flowers in June, and its feeds ripen in Auguft. 
J. Bauhine calls it Clematis BMica clufuy and 
C. Bauhine Clematis per egrina foliis pyri incifis. 
The foreign and Britifh clematis agree in their 
nature and qualities as well as Jorm. They are 
acrid, and too lharp for internal ufe; but an oil 
made of the leaves, infuled in oil of olives, is 
efteemed good in the Iciatica. 
GENUS 
