2a POLTINDRIA. rOLlGYXTA. 



Sarmentose shrubs, or creepinp^ herbs; leaves opposite, 

 conjdgate cirrhose, o;- once or twice ternate; flowers ia 

 the shrubs i-amuline, in the herbs at the summit of an in- 

 vohacrate scape as in Anemone. 



Species. 1. A. ajnericana.—.K small g-cnus of 11 or 13 

 species widely dispersed, existing; in Europe, Siberia, 

 ladia, Japan, Barbary and the Cape of Good Hope, I abo 

 ia America. 



>S3. CLEMATIS. L. (Virgin's Bower.) 



Ccdix nane. Fetals 4, more rarely 5. Seeds 

 compressed, caudate, Cauda mostly plumose. 



Stems often shrubby, sarmentose or more rarely erect; 

 leaves opposite, s:m[)le, tt^raate, or imperfectly pinnate; 

 flowers axillary or more frequently terminal, solitary but 

 DiOstly corymbose, in some species dioicous. 



Species. 1. Cvirgirdca. 2. cor data. Ph. 3. holo^e- 

 licea. Ph. 4. IValteri. Ph. 5. cinspa. 6. cylindrica. 7- 

 leticulatu. 8. Viorna. 9. sericea. 



A genus of about 30 species distributed over the world, 

 from the nortli of Europe to tlie Levant; in Sibei-ia, Japan, 

 Ciiina, northern and tr. epical America, India, the islands 

 of the Pacific, and New Zealand. 



584. ANEMONE. /.. 



Calix none. Petals 5 to 9, or more. Seeds 

 many. 



Herbaceous; leaves mostly radical, once or twice pseu- 

 doplnnate, dig-itate, or simply lobed; scape or stem, 1 or 

 more flowered, often involucrate, leaves of the involu- 

 crum simple or parted; seeds various, in a few species 

 Caudate, in others smooth or lanuginous, and simply mu- 

 cronate. 



Species. 1. A. * liuloviciana. Scape 1-flowered, in- 

 volucrate; involucrum softly lanug-lnous, subulately divi- 

 ded; leaves digitate, multifid, upper surface smooth, seg- 

 ments entire, linear, acute; petals 6, oblong-ovate, erect, 

 li AB. Commencing near the confluence of tlie river Platte 

 iud Missouri; on gravelly hills; flowering about April. 

 Clematis hirsutissima. P'ursh 2. p. o65i Obs. A species 

 related to A. patens and.i. Pidsatilla, and much about the 

 size of the latter. Root perennial, fibrous and premorse, 

 not tuberous; every part of the plant except the upper 

 Burface of the leaves and inner side of the petals rnors or 

 less covered with soft silky hair, (not the least hirsute) 



