CLEM'ATIS INTEGRIFOLIA. 
INTIRE-LEAVED VIRGIN’S BOWER. 
Class. Order. 
POLYA NDRIA. POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RANCNCULACEjE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Deration. 
Cultivated 
Austria. 
2 feet. 
June, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1596. 
No. 98. 
Clematis is derived from the Greek klema, a 
vine, or little twig; in allusion to the greater portion 
of this genus being climbers, like a vine. Integri- 
folia, from the Latin integer, intire ; and folium, a 
leaf; the leaves being intire, that is undivided, or 
without any opening or gash on their edges. 
The various species of Clematis, above twenty in 
the whole, are chiefly exotic climbers, and several 
of them well known. England has only one native 
species, the Clematis vitalba, or Traveller’s Joy, 
with which most of our readers are, doubtless, well 
acquainted. The Clematis integrifolia has a plumose 
seed, similar to the English one, which latter Gerard 
notices, and observes 4 Each seed has a fine white 
feather fastened to it, which maketh, in the winter, 
a goodly show.’ 
The stems of the Clematis integrifolia are annual, 
and unlike the greater part of the same family, are 
low, requiring only to be supported against the effects 
of wind and rain. The roots may be divided in the 
autumn, or early in the spring, and may be planted 
in any common garden soil. They require no pecu- 
liar attention either to their aspect or soil. 
Hurt. Kew. 2, v. 3, 346. 
