2 RANUNCULACEiE. 



Climbing plants with opposite compound leaves and the achenes 

 (carpels in fruit) tailed. No petals. Sepals four, yellow or 

 white . . . (Travellers' Joy) clematis. 



Ground herbs. Stem with two or three leafy bracts a few inches 

 below the flowers. Achenes (carpels in fruit) longer than 

 broad and beaked. No petals ..... anemone. 



Ground herbs. No involucre of leaves below the flower. 

 Achenes not much longer than broad. Sepals and petals. 

 (Buttercup) ranunculus. 



Tall well-branched herbs with smooth slender stem and leaves 

 like Maiden Hair. No petals. Sepals soon falling and 

 leaving only a fluffy ball of white stamens. . . . (Mea4ow 

 Rue). thalictrum. 



CLEMATIS. F.B.I. I I. 



Travellers' Joy. 

 Thin stemmed woody plants climbing by leaf-stalks 

 coiling round the support. Leaves opposite, pinnately 

 or ternately compound. Flowers axillary or terminal, 

 solitary or panicled, without bracts and without petals, 

 but with sepals often highly coloured and large. Carpels 

 many, one-ovuled, ripening into tailed achenes (contain- 

 ing only one seed and not opening). 



Species about i8o, almost all over the temperate and, less 

 commonly, tropical regions of the world. 



Najned after the Greek, fro7n the word kleema a climber, but the Greek 

 name kleematis was given to other cU?nbers as well 



In Europe the commonest wild species is C. vitalba Linn.; Eng. 

 Travellers' Joy, Old Man's Beard, or Virgin's Bower ; Ger. Waldrebe ; Fr. 

 Consolation, Vigne blanche, Berceau de latres-sainte Vierge ; which flowers 

 in the autumn. 



Clematis wightiana Wallich Cat. 4674!; F,BJ. i 5, I 

 15; Travellers' Joy: a woody climber with opposite 

 pinnate leaves compounded of three to five softly hairy 

 leaflets, and axillary panicles of cream-coloured flowers. 



Stem slender, ribbed, covered with short appressed 

 hairs. Leaf-stalks 2 to 4 inches, without stipules. 

 Leaflets ovate, lobed or cut into rounded teeth with short 

 points hairy on both sides, densely so on the lower; veins 



