Excerpt from A New Zealand Naturalist's Calendar: And Notes by the WaysideThere is considerable diversity of size in the blossoms of our common clematis, as well as in the character of the foliage, and this has led to its separation by botanists into two species, named respectively Clematis indivisa and C. Hexasepala. The extreme forms are rather unlike, a fine specimen of the former having ¿owers as much as four inches across and large undivided leaves, while the latter has smaller leaves. Which are more or less cut into, and the ¿owers are often not half the size, but there are so many intermediate forms that it frequently becomes difficult to decide to which to refer any particular specimen.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.