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vies. i. Single blue. i. Single purple. 3. Single red. 
4. Double purple. They flower in June and July, but 
the feeds feldom ripen in England. The laft continues 
to the end of Auguft. Miller’s variety, C. alpino, rifes 
only three or four feet high ; the leaves have nine leaf¬ 
lets, three on each foot-ilalk ; the flowers come out at 
the joints of the fcem, are white, and make no great ap¬ 
pearance. It flowers in May, and grows naturally on the 
mountains of Italy : he received it from Monte Baldo. 
3. Clematis viorna, orleathery-flowered virgin’s bower: 
leaves compound and decompound; fome of the leaflets 
trifid. Stems many, fiender, farmentofe, round, ftriated, 
proltrate, or climbing; flowers foiitary, nodding, coria¬ 
ceous, ribbed on the outflde, never opening, except at 
the end, where the petals are bent back; they are of a 
greenifti purple on the outflde, and very pale green with¬ 
in ; the ftamens l'carcely emerge from the corolla; feeds 
broadilh, flat, at firft green, then browm ; tail bent in and 
plumofe, of a brownilh green colour. Native of Carolina 
and Virginia. It is in Banifter’s catalogue of the plants 
of Virginia fent over in the year 1680. In 1732 it was 
cultivated by James Sherard, M. D. at Eltham; and Mil¬ 
ler received the feeds from both countries. It flowers 
from June to September; and, if the autumn prove warm, 
the feeds will ripen. 
4. Clematis crifpa, or curled virgin’s bower: leaves 
Ample and ternate ; leaflets entire and three-lobed. This 
has weak ftalks, which rife near four feet high, and by 
their clafpers fallen themfelves to neighbouring plants; 
the flowers come out (ingly from the Aides of the branches 
upon (hort peduncles, having one or two pair of leaves 
on them, which are oblong and (harp-pointed; the co¬ 
rolla is purple, the infide is curled, and lias many longi¬ 
tudinal furrows. Thunberg defcribes the Item as llriated, 
flexuofe, and lfnooth ; the leaves as five-nerved, petioled, 
ovate, acute, and fmooth ; and the flowers as growing in 
a compound, trichotomous, panicle. Native of Carolina, 
■whence Mr. Miiler received the feeds in 1726. It was 
cultivated in the Eltham garden at the fame time. It is 
alfo a native of Florida and Japan. It flowers in July, 
and the feed ripens in September. 
5. Clematis Orientalis, or Oriental virgin’s bower: 
leaves compound ; leaflets gaflied, angular, lobed, wedge- 
form ; petals villofe on the infide. This alio has weak 
■climbing (talks, riling to the height of feven or eight feet 
when fupported ; the leaves confift of nine leaflets, which 
are angular and (harp pointed. According to thedefcrip- 
tion of Dillenius, they refemble the upper leaves of fmall- 
age in fliape, but they are glaucous on both Aides, and 
have fuch loft and (lender hairs on them as are not ealily 
either feen or felt; the petioles and ends of the twigs 
have alio the lame delicate pubefcence; flowers droop¬ 
ing; petals bent back, finally flat, villofe within, of a 
yellowifh green colour, with a tinge of ruffet on the up¬ 
per part or outflde ; llamens collected into an oblong pur¬ 
ple head, with oblong purple antherae yellow at the edge. 
It flowers from July to OCtober; and was dilcovered by 
Tournefort in the Levant, whence he fent the feeds to 
the royal garden at Paris. 
6. Clematis hexapetala, or fix-petalied virgin’s bower: 
leaves compound; leaflets ovate, ferrate; peduncles two¬ 
leaved ; corolla fpreading, fix-petalled. Flowers yellow¬ 
ifh, dioecous. Native of New Zealand; found in Char¬ 
lotte Sound, November 1774. 
7. Clematis Virginiana, or Virginian virgin’s bower: 
leaves ternate; leaflets cordate, fomewhat lobed and an¬ 
gular, climbing; flowers dioecous. Stems climbing, very 
high. The female flowers have ftamens, but the antherse 
are deftitute of pollen. Loureiro affects that the flowers 
are hermaphrodite ; and that the feeds are fix in number, 
of an ovate-oblong fliape, with a ltraight hairy tail, about 
the fame length with the ftamens. Native of North Ame¬ 
rica ; alfo of Japan and Cochinchina; cultivated in 1767 
by Mr. James Gordon; flowers from June to Auguft. 
8. Clematis florida, or large-flowered -virgin’s bower: 
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leaves decompound; leaflets binate and ternate ; petals 
ovate. Stem ftriated, purple, fmooth. Native of Japan; 
introduced about 1776 by John Fothergill, M. D. flowers 
molt part of the year. 
9. Clematis Japonica, or Japan virgin’s bower: leaves 
ternate ; leaflets elliptic-ovate, ferrate ; flowers cyiindric. 
Stem, filiform, ftriated, purple, villofe 5 flowers from the 
joints, peduncled, foiitary, purple. This differs-from cle¬ 
matis Virginiana in having the leaflets not cordate, but 
drawn to a point towards both ends ; the flowers cyiin¬ 
dric not ovate, and peduncled. .Native of Japan. 
10. Clematis dioica, or trifoliate virgin’s bower, or 
climber: leaves ternate, quite entire; flow'ers dioecous. 
This has (lender tough climbing ftalks, rifing to the height 
of ten or twelve feet; leaves trifoliate, coming out on 
each fide the (talk; the leaflets are large, ovate, and en¬ 
tire, having three or five longitudinal nerves; flowers 
white, and compofed of four narrow petals which are re- 
fiedled, but the ftamens all (land ereft. There are about 
eighty feeds difpofed in a head ; they are obtufely three- 
cornered and comprefled, with a very long tail, fringed 
with many white hairs. Native of the Weft Indies, and 
alfo of Cochinchina; climbing very high without ten¬ 
drils. It was fent to Mr. Miller from Jamaica, by Dr, 
Houftoun. 
xi. Clematis vitalba, or common virgin’s bower, wild 
climber, or traveller’s joy: leaves pinnate; leaflets cor¬ 
date, climbing. This (lirub climbs as high as twenty 
feet by means of the twifted petioles; the younger ftems 
are'(lightly hirfute, flexible, and purple ; the old ones are 
the thicknefs of the finger, deeply grooved, and of a 
whitilli colour: there is little beauty in this fort. It is a 
native of North America. 
32. Clematis flammula, or fweet-fcented virgin’s bower: 
lower leaves pinnate, laciniate; upper, Ample, quite en¬ 
tire, lanceolate. This is rather creeping than climbing ; 
it is lower and more tender than the foregoing. Native 
of the fouth of France, Italy, the Grifons, See. flowers 
from July to Oftober, 
13. Clematis maritima: leaves pinnate, linear; ftems 
Ample, hexagonal. Stem ereft, perennial. Found near 
Montpellier, Nice, and Venice. 
14. Clematis refta, or upright virgin’s bower: leaves 
pinnate; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, quite entire; ftemeredl; 
flowers four and five-petafled. Perennial; ftems herba¬ 
ceous, annual, round, ereft, fcarcely branched, from three 
to five feet high, firm, ending in a panicle at the top. 
Linnaeus remarks, that the umbels of flowers are upright 
and ftitF. The flowers come out in June, and the feeds 
ripen in September. Native of France, S-Aiflerland, Sile- 
fia, Aullria, Carniola, Hungary, and Tartary; cultivated 
in 1597 by Gerarde. The variety, which Mr. Miller 
makes a fpecies, under the name of clematis hifpanica, dif¬ 
fers only in having but two or three pairs of leaflets^, 
which are narrower and (land farther afunder; fhorter 
ftalks, and larger flowers. This plant, as well as moft of 
the other fpecies-, is acrid, corrofive, and inflames the 
(kin, whence the name fla? 7 imula in Bauhin. It is recom¬ 
mended by baron Stoerck in inveterate f/philitic difeafes, 
in ulcers, cancers, and fevere head-achs. It a&s as h diu¬ 
retic or diaphoretic. The character of clematis refts wholly 
on Stoerck’s authority. He ufed an extract of the lea- s; 
but he chiefly recommends an infufion of the frefli leaves, 
two or three drams to a pint of boiling water, four ounces 
to be taken three times a-day, whiift the powdered leaves 
are applied as an efcharotic to the ulcers. -It may be ufed 
' alfo for raifing blifters, where cantharides cannot be ob¬ 
tained. 
15. Clematis integrifolia, or entire-leaved virgin’s bowe' - , 
or Hungarian climber: leaves Ample, ovate-lanceolate; 
flowers drooping. Perennial; Items feveral, annual, a 
foot and a half high or more, ftriated, ereft, terminated 
by a nodding flower, and fometimes branched in the Up¬ 
per axils. Native of Germany, Aullria, Carniola, and 
Hungary. ;! It flowers in July, or from June to Auguft; 
was 
