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Clematis (About species are included)

About 100 species are included in this genus; they are mostly dispersed over temperate regions, and are rarely found within the tropics. To the species and varieties described on pp. 338-40, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. reticulata (reticulated). fl. dull greenish and purplish, solitary, pendulous, on long peduncles; sepals connivent, recurved at the tips. September. l. leathery, prominently reticulated; upper ones simple, elliptic; lower ones pinnate, with seven to nine variable leaflets. Southern United States, 1880. A rambling, hardy or nearly hardy climber. (B. M. 6574.) C. rhodochlora (reddish-green). fl. about the size of those of C. Viticella; two smaller sepals vinous-red above, paler towards the base, whitish flushed with red beneath; larger sepals nearly double the size of the smaller ones, green, quite foliaceous. l. simple, broadly oval or sub-cordate, shortly stalked. 1887. Garden variety.

C. stans (erect). fl. opal-blue, sub-verticillately clustered, pendulous; whorls disposed in a contracted, terminal panicle; sepals linear, acuminate, recurved. September. l. trifoliolate; leaflets obliquely roundish-ovate, acute, deeply toothed or somewhat lobed, wrinkled, the upper ones narrower. Stem erect, herbaceous, softly pubescent. h. 2ft. to 3ft. Japan. Hardy. (B. M. 6810.) C. tubulosa Hookerii (Hooker's). fl. lilac, tubular, 3/4in. long, pedicellate, disposed in axillary clusters. l. large, pinnately trifoliolate; leaflets elliptic, acute, dentate. North China, 1885. An ornamental, hardy shrub. (B. M. 6801.)