OPEN WOODS 



I. Purple Clematis 



Clematis ochroleuca. — Family, Crowfoot. Color, purple. 

 Leaves, sessile, opposite, conspicuously net -veined, ovate, 

 sometimes 3-lobed, soft, silky underneath. Time, May. 



Corolla, wanting. Ca/yx of 4 colored, leathery sepals joined 

 at the base. Flowers, large, on long peduncles, solitary, ter- 

 minating the branches. The fruit is a collection of achenes, 

 each furnished with a very plumose tail. Stems low, erect, 

 generally unbranched. 



One of the pleasant surprises awaiting the watchful botanist 

 in his spring walks is this rare purple clematis. Later, in sum- 

 mer, the heads of fruit, ^with their airy, plumed appendages, will 

 repay study. Found southward to Pennsylvania and Georgia. 



2. Thimble-weed 



Anemone Virginiana. — Fa?}iily, Crowfoot. Color, greenish 

 or white. Leaves, radical and on the stem, the latter forming 

 an involucre of 3-stalked, twice-divided leaves, their divisions 

 cleft. From this whorl of leaves the earlier blossoms arise 

 on tall, naked stalks. Later ones are accompanied by a sim- 

 ilar smaller pair of leaves. Time, summer. 



Petals, none. There are 5 greenish sepals, silky and downy 

 underneath. Fruit, an oblong head of achenes, thimble- 

 shaped. One of our tall anemones, 2 to 3 feet high, stiff and 

 rather ungraceful-, common in many of our woods. 



