RANÜNCULACEJE. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 3 
1. ATRAGENE, L. 
Sepals 4, colored, membranaceous, spreading, valvate in the bud, deciduous. 
Petals numerous, stamen-like. Stamens indefinite. Ovaries numerous, 1-ovuled. 
Achenia capitate, bearing the persistent styles in the form of long plumose-beard- 
ed tails. Seed suspended.— Shrubby vines, climbing by the petioles. Leaves 
opposite, compound, from scaly buds. Flowers solitary, showy. 
1. A. Americana, Sims. Leaves in opposite pairs, ternate; leaflets 
stalked, ovate, acute, entire or toothed, sometimes slightly cordate ; peduncles 
opposite ; sepals oblong-ovate. — Mountains of North Carolina and northward. 
April - May. — Flowers 2! - 3 in diameter, purple. 
2. CLEMATIS, L. Vinciw's-Bowrm. 
Petals none. Persistent styles naked or plumose. Otherwise as Atragene. — 
Herbs or shrubby vines. Leaves simple or compound, opposite. Buds not 
scaly. Flowers solitary or panicled, often polygamous or dicecious. i 
* Flowers solitary, nodding : calyx thick or leathery. 
+— Stems erect, mostly simple, herbaceous. 
1. C. ochroleuca, Ait. Silky-pubescent; leaves ovate or roundish, en- 
tire, reticulate, nearly sessile, at length smooth above ; tails of the achenia ar 
long) plumose. — Upper districts of Xeorgia and morta 1 Ma 
Stems 1? high. Flowers 'ellowish, 1' la S. nein nie i 
£0 Baldwinii, MO & a " Stems pis ae slender, slightly 
pubescent; leaves oblong, varying to linear-lanceolate, entire, or with three often 
divided lobes; peduncles elongated ; tails of the achenia (2'—3' long) very slen- 
der, plumose. — South Florida. — Stems 1°-1}° high. Peduncles 8' 10! long. 
Flowers purple, yellowish within, the sepals woolly on the margins. 
. + + Stems climbing, herbaceous. 
S odia, Pursh. Smooth; stems erect or climbing ; leaves broadly 
ovate, short-petioled, reticulate, glaucous beneath, the lowest sometimes com- - 
pound or cordate; sepals ovate, acuminate, pubescent on the margins ; tails of 
the achenia very long, plumose. — Mountains of Georgia, Carolina, and Ten- 
nessee.— Flowers purple ?, inclined. — Probably a form of the next. (*) 
4. C. Viorna, L. Smoothish ; leaves pinnate ; leaflets 5-7, oval, or ob- 
long-ovate, mostly acute, somewhat membranaceous, entire or 2—3-lobed, the 
lowest pair oftem ternate; calyx ovate; sepals ovate, tapering into a short re- 
curved point, not margined, rather longer than the stamens; tails of the achenia’ | 
(1}/ long) plumose. — River-banks. E — a 
thick, reddish purple, 1/ long. 
5. C. crispa, L: Stem sjiiiogly" yalumiity leaves pinnate ; —1 
i 7 ovate, thin, 3-lobed or ternate ; etuer ioo tienne one oni 
