CLEMATIS GLAUCOPIIYLLA.
Perennial, bright green, glabrous. Stem rather slender, 2-5 meters long, climbing over bushes or trees, nearly simple, dark red, furrowed, much enlarged at the nodes ; leaves ovate, 3-10 cm. long, thickish, acute, often apiculate or acuminate, entire, 3-lobed or trifoliolate, with conspicuous white nerves above, prominently nerved and glaucous beneath, cordate or subcordate ; floral leaves with petioles i cm. long, the nerves gradually diverging from the midrib ; flowers reddish purple, glossy, 2-2.5 cm. long ; calyx conic-ovoid ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, the tips very slightly spreading ; achenes suborbicular, 6-8 mm. in diameter, puberu lent, abruptly narrowed at both ends, with an orbicular impression in the middle, sometimes slightly inequilateral, the plumose style erect or slightly oblique, 5-6 cm. long, tawny, lustrous, the hairs
spreading.
Collected by the writer in the Yellow River valley, near Mc Guire's Mill, Gwinnett county, Georgia. In flower July 2, 1895, in fruit July [ 1, 1893.
A handsome species between Clematis Addisonii and C. Viorna, with foliage somewhat resembling that of the former and with the habit of the latter. It differs from C. Addisonii in its much elon gated and climbing stem, and the distinctly petioled and acute floral leaves. It may readily be distinguished from C. Viorna by its suborbicular achene and longer plumose styles, as well as by the foliage.