q 2.Clematis L. 
Perennial herbs, erect or vine-like; leaves opposite. Sepals /commonly Be 
4, petal-like. Petals wanting or minute. Stamens numrous. Pistils nome | 2 
erous. Fruit an achene, tailed by the persistent, plumose SS¥10y | showy  - 4 
in fruit. | 
Plants erect, the leaf segments linear, oblanceolate, 
2-4 mm. broad 
Plants climbing or sprawling, vine-like, the leaf SOgn 
ments ovate, 1-3 cm. broad 
Flowers white, numerous in axillary cymose panicles; 
leaflets mostly 5 
Flowers blue, solitary in the axils; leaflets 3 
(Ls C- hirsutissims Pursh. Leather Flower. Perennial with tough horizontal _ 
_ rootstocks,the stems erect, 40-50 cm. tall, ‘tufted and numerous, forming 2 
Compact x_g1.0bos¢ plants, hirsute or villous; leaves connate and sheathing 
at the base, triangular-ovate in outline, 5-7 cm. long simmaimiamal * 70.12 
Cme long in fruit, ternate, then once or thrice pinnate, the segments 1-2 
qj) : cme long, 1-4 mm. broad, ‘linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, villous, Semerrrreerene 
tet) cs Miele ca’ De ToT eet 6 
Pee ee ae Fe , 
I ey cap or TO oer wield 
a terminal peduncle 3-6 em, long, 
Mes My 20-30 cm. long in fruit, thinly villous; 
sepals 5-3.5 cm. long, erect not Spreading, oblong, brown and purple, veined 
and woolly outside, the tips dilated; stamens 2 cm. long, the anthers yellow 
5 mme long, scarcely wider than the filaments; styles Silky-hairy; achenes 
obliquely ovate, 5-6 m. long, Silky-hirsute, the styles 3-5 cm. long, the 
Clusters globose, smoky, 8-9 cm. in diameter. (C. Douglasii Hook. ). 
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Along roadways and in meadows in the grasslands. 
