CLEMATIS

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CLEMATIS , in botany, a genus of the natural order

Ranunculaceae

RANUNCULACEAE

, containing nearly two hundred species, and widely distributed. It is represented in England by Clematis Vitalba, " old man's

beard

BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge,
beak
- BEAK (early forms beke and becke, from Fr. bec, late Lat. beccus, supposed to be a Gaulish word; the Celtic bec and beq, however, are taken from the
  English
  - ENGLISH
  )
of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New
English
- ENGLISH
Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)

" or " traveller's joy," a common plant on chalky or light soil. The plants are shrubby climbers with generally compound opposite leaves, the stalk of which is sensitive to contact like a tendril, becoming

twisted

TWISTED

round suitable objects and thereby giving support to the plant. The

flowers

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

are arranged in axillary or terminal clusters; they have no petals, but

white

or coloured, often very large sepals, and an indefinite number of stamens and carpels. They contain no honey, and are visited by insects for the sake of the

pollen

POLLEN, AUGUST (or, as he afterwards called himself, ADOLF) LUDWIG (1794-1855)

, which is plentiful. The fruit is a head of achenes, each bearing the

long

LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

-bearded persistent style, suggesting the popular name. This feathery style is an important agent in the distribution of the seed by means of the wind. Several of the species, especially the large-flowered ones, are :favourite

garden

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

plants, well adapted for covering trellises Jr walls, or trailing over the ground. Many

garden

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

forms have been produced by hybridization; among the best known, is C. Jackmanni, due to Mr George Jackman of Woking.
Further information may be obtained from The Clematis as a Garden Flower, by Thos. Moore and George Jackman. See also G. NIcholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i. (1885) and Supplements.
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