(1872)  Page(s) 80-1.  
 
Descriptive Notes of Species & Varieties.
C. Albert Victor (Noble). — This, which is one of the early-flowering hybrids of the patens group, was raised by Mr. C. Noble, of Bagshot, and in habit very much resembles its parent C. Standishii.  The foliage is ternate, with small ovate leaflets.  The flowers are flat, from five to six inches across, freely produced, usually consisting of eight stout broadly-elliptic rounded sepals; the colour is a deep lavender or a pale mauve, with a slightly-marked paler bar, reddish at the base, in the centre of each sepal, the filaments being white, tipped with chocolate-purple anthers.  The period of flowering out-doors, in this and its allies, is from the middle or end of May to the beginning of July, but when grown under glass they may be had in flower by the middle of March.  A First-class Certificate was awarded to it by the Royal Horticultural Society, in 1869.

(1872)  Page(s) 81.  
 
Descriptive Notes of Species & Varieties.
C. Alexandra (Jackman). — This belongs to the race of free-blooming varieties of the Viticella or Jackmanni group, and is of a remarkably showy and ornamental character.  The leaves are pinnatisect, with the lateral leaflets ovate, and the terminal one cordate.  The flowers are large, of a pale reddish violet, with broad overlapping sepals, and in the centre is a tuft of greenish-white stamens.  The unopened buds are of a greenish-purple hue.  It is one of the continuous-blooming sorts, and being of a vigorous habit of growth, is a most desirable acquisition for decorative purposes.

(1872)  Page(s) 12.  
 
One of the earliest of the Continental raisers of hybrid varieties of the larger type, was M. Briolay-Goiffon, of Orleans, who in 1860 obtained as a cross between C. lanuginosa and C. patens the variety named C. Aureliani, a handsome free-blooming plant, with well-formed porcelain-blue flowers, not sent out, as M. Briolay informs us, until 1865.

(1872)  Page(s) 83.  
 
Descriptive Notes of Species & Varieties.
C. Aureliani (Briolay-Goiffon). — This is one of the Continental forms, which have been bred from C. lanuginosa hybridized with C. patens, and is of a less vigorous habit than the former, which was the mother parent.  The plant has ternate woolly leaves, with narrowly-cordiform acuminate leaflets; and the flowers are large, full, of a lively porcelain-blue colour, with elliptic acuminate sepals, and very deep chocolate-red anthers.  It is remarkably floriferous, as we learn from M. Briolay-Goiffon, who states that it was raised in 1860, from the above-named parents, and was sent out in 1865; also that the C. Amalia regina, sent out from another source in 1867, is the same plant.

(1872)  Page(s) 84.  
 
C. Baroness Burdett-Coutts (Jackman). — A stout-growing variety, apparently belonging to the lanuginosa type, but having an earlier-flowering habit.  The leaves are large, ternate, of a pale green colour, with broadly ovate leaflets, which some times become divided in the manner of those of the florida type.  It has the flowers of a pretty and delicate shade of Solferino-pink, with a creamy-white bar, and consisting of seven or eight broadly elliptic sepals, the stamens being pale-coloured, with whitish filaments, and pale brown anthers.  It is a very delicate and beautiful flower, and quite distinct in its character.

(1872)  Page(s) 157.  
 
The names of some few species which occur in garden catalogues are omitted from amongst the foregoing descriptions, in consequence of the plants they represent being quite unknown to us, having, as we suppose, passed out of cultivation. We particularly refer to C. biternata (white), C. chinensis (dull purple) , C. dahurica ( dull purple) , C. japonica (purple), C. terniflora (white), and C. triternata (white) . It may, we think, be safely assumed that they are unimportant as garden plants. One or two others, as C. Gebleriana (soongarica) and C. jubata, are essentially weedy in character ; while of some few which occur in the Continental trade lists, as C. Blackburniana, C. californica, C. Camusetii, C. indica, and C. Leeana, we have been unable to obtain any reliable information. C. nepalensis, another cataogue name, appears to be applied to C. montana in some plant lists.

(1872)  Page(s) 98, 141, Pl. XVI.  Includes photo(s).
 
p. 98: C. FLORIDA BICOLOR. -See C. Sieboldii

p. 141: C. SIEBOLDII, Don. [Plate XVI. Compared with other hardy species of this genus, C. Sieboldii is of slender though free-growing habit ; in this respect, indeed, it resembles C. florida, of which it is, no doubt, botanically considered, a variety, differing chiefly in the very prominent purple centre of its flowers indeed by some authorities it has been named C. florida bicolor. It forms a very elegant plant for a wall or trellis, or to introduce as a climber into any cool plant-house. The flowers when at their full development are biternate, that is, with the terminal and two lateral leaflets, each divided into three segments, which are small and ovate- acuminate in outline, and either entire or toothed at the margin. The flower-buds are erect and green ; and the flowers, which are produced from July to September, are composed of six ovate sepals of a creamy-white colour, which form a fine background for the large rosette of purple petaloid stamens which occupy the centre, and render the flowers particularly attractive. In the earlier stages of the development of the flower, the middle portion of the rosette, which consists of the more perfectly-formed stamens, is of a greenish hue. The plant is a native of Japan, whence it was introduced by Mr. Low in 1837. There is a good coloured figure of it in Sweet's British Flower Garden (iv. , t. 396) . It is also figured in the Flore des Serres (v., t. 487) ; in Maund's Botanist (t. 241) ; in the Botanical Register ( 1838, t . 25) ; and in Paxton's Magazine of Botany (iv. , 147) , the latter figure scarcely giving sufficient prominence to the central tuft of abortive filaments and styles.

(1872)  Page(s) 98.  
 
C. FLORIDA PLENA (Hort.).-This variety exactly resembles the type in respect to habit and foliage. The flowers also are similar in size and colour, being of a creamy white, more or less pure according to freeness of development, but they differ in having, in place of the purplish stamens, a much larger central tuft of petaloid subulate organs, forming a central rosette of a greenish-white hue, this rosette remaining persistent after the sepals have fallen away. Though a pretty plant, it is not so handsome as C. Sieboldii, which in many respects resembles it, but has the advantage of contrast of colour in the central tuft of petaloid filaments. A figure of this form is given in Jacquin's Plantarum Rariorum Horti Schoenbrunnensis Descriptiones et Icones (t. 357).

(1872)  Page(s) Pl. V, VI, IX-XII, XIV.  Includes photo(s).
 
facing p. 38 Plate V: Clematis Jackmanni as a hardy climber for festooning

facing p. 40, Plate VI: Clematis Jackmanni trained as a standard, for lawns

facing p. 51, Plate IX: Clematis Jackmanni as a permanent bedding plant

facing p. 60, Pl. X: Clematis Jackmanni as a pilar plant

facing p. 63, Plate XI: Clematis Jackmanni as arockwork or root-work plant

facing p. 67 Platte XII: Clematis Jackmanni, as an exhibition plant

facing p. 109, Pl. XIV: Clematis Jackmanni

(1872)  Page(s) 125.  
 
C. MARITIMA, Linnæus.-An erect-habited herbaceous European species, growing from three to four feet in height, furnished with pinnatisect leaves which have the leaflets lanceolate, and producing loose corymbs of white flowers larger than those of C. erecta, and composed of several spathulate sepals. As a garden plant, it will be superseded by the variety to be next referred to. [C. maritima plena]