CLEM ATIS CALYCI'NA. 
MINORCA VIRGIN’S-BOWER. 
Class. Order. 
FOLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RANUNCULACE M. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers 
Duration, 
Introduced 
Minorca. 
12 feet. 
Feb & Mar. 
Perennial. 
in 1783. 
No. 818. 
The twiggy habit of this genus of climbing 
plants furnished it a name ; whilst the native 
country of the species under consideration has given 
its title as a common distinctive appellation. The 
plant was introduced long since, to the Royal 
Garden at Kew, by Andre Thouin, late Professor of 
Agriculture in the Jardin des Plantes, of Paris ; 
and editor of the agriculture part of Encyclopedic 
Methodique; a gentleman who, says Sir J. E. 
Smith, “ranked amongst the best and most philo- 
sophic cultivators of this or any age.” 
This species of Clematis is most generally met 
with in the greenhouse, but when planted against 
a wall, in a sheltered situation, and dry soil, is 
found to bear our winters without injury. It is 
evergreen, and its early habit of flowering is some- 
what remarkable in the genus to which it belongs. 
Its delicately spotted flowers come forth whilst 
frost and the sun’s feeble rays contend for the 
mastery — as if they thought of their native breezes 
of the Mediterranean, and became impatient of the 
icy grasp of a British winter. We are forcibly 
reminded of J. G. Percival’s beautiful lines on this 
