Clematis. RANUNCULACE.E. 7 



Mexican border, Cheuati Mts., W. Texas, Havard, and Santa Rita del Cobra, Biyelow. 

 (Mex. Coulter, Uartive;/, Parry i)- Palmer.) 



C. crispa, L. Glabrous or nearly so, climbing freely, but often flowering when only a foot 

 or a yard liigli : leaflets from ovate or even cordate to lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 

 membranaceous, little reticulated : peduncle naked, between a pair of compound or rarely 

 simple leaves : calyx rose colored varying to violet : sepals from an inch to almost 2 

 inches long, recurved or spreading from near the middle, tlie spreading portion with broad 

 undulate margins : styles cauesceut to villous in flower, in fruit either almost glabrate (and 

 the upper part falling away in age) or villous with erect hairs. — Spec. i. 54.3 (founded 

 wliolly on C. flore-crispo, Dill. Eltli. 86, t. 73) ; Willd. Spec. ii. 1289 ; Sims, Bot. JMag. t. 

 1892 ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxxii. t. 60; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 10 ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 16, t. 2, & 

 Bot. Mag. 1. c. ; Lavalle'e, Clem. 49, t. 14, not DC. (which is European near or a var. of 

 C. viticella). C. Viorna, Audr. Bot. Rep. t. 71, not L. C. cylindrica, Sims, Bot. Mag. 

 t. 1160 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; Lavalle'e, 1. c. 43, t. 13. C. divaricata, Jacq. f. Eel. i. 51, t. 33. 

 C. cordata, Sims, Bot. Mag, t. 1816, not Pursh. C. distorta, Lavallee, 1. c. 37, t. 11. 

 C. Simsii, Sweet, Plort. Brit. 1 ; Kuntze, Verli. Bot. Brandenburg, 1885, 134, in part. Viti- 

 cella crispa (partly) & Vionia cylindrica, Spach, Hist. Veg. vii. 267, 269. (Perliajis the C. Viorna, 

 Andr., C. cylindrica, Sims, & C. diraricata, Jacq. f., originated in a cross with C. viticella.) 

 — Low ground, S. Virginia to Florida and Texas. ^ 



Var. "Walter!, Gray. Floweriug when low: leaflets from lanceolate (3 or 4 lines 

 wide) to almost linear. — Bot. Mag. under t. 6594. C. Wulteri, Pursh, Fl. ii. 384. C. cijlin- 

 drica, var. Walter i, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i, 10. C. lineariloba, DC. Syst. i. 155, & Deless. Ic. 

 Sel. t. 3, a most attenuate form, with sepals artificially outspread. — S. Carolina to Texas, 

 passing freely to broader-leaved form. 



-t— -1— Low and erect herbs, simple or simply brauidied: flowers solitary and terminal. 

 ++ Leaves narrow, at least the lower simple and sessile, witii narrow base, thinnish, not 

 reticulated. 



C. Baldwinii, Toru. & Gray. Somewhat pubescent, glabrate :. stems slender, simple or 

 branched from near the base, few-leaved, terminatiug in a long strict peduncle : leaves from 

 lanceolate-oblong to linear and entire, or upper ones 3-5-cleft or parted into lanceolate or 

 linear divisions, tliese more or less petioled : flower nearly of C. crispa : carpel-tails much 

 elongated (3 inches long), filiform, conspicuously plumose throughout. — Fl. i. 8 ; Chapm. 

 Fl. 3. — Open pine woods, Florida; first coll. by Baldwin. 



++ ++ Leaves broadly ovate (2 to 5 inches long), sessile or subsessile by a broad base, 

 all undivided, exceedingly reticulated : flower dull colored : sepals with narrow explanate 

 margins only at tip. 



C. ochroleuca, Ait. Densely sericeous-pubescent, glabrate in age : leaves about the lengtli 

 of the internodes, pale, chartaceous in age, quite entire or upper occasionally 3-ck'ft or 

 incised : peduncle equalling or surpassing the uppermost pair of leaves : calyx externally 

 sericeous-canescent, greenish yellow or purplish, the tips within dull yellowish : akenes 

 pubescent, the styles (about inch long) very plumose. — Kew. ii. 260 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 

 t. 661 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 7; Torr. Fl. N. Y. i. 6, t. 1. C. sericea, Michx. Fl. 1. 319. 

 C. ovata, Pursh, Fl. ii. 736, a very glabrate form!'^ C. integrifolia, var. tomentosa, &c., 

 Kuntze, 1. c. 176. — Dry ground, Long Island, New York, to Upper Georgia. 



C. Fremontii, Watson. Loosely villous-pubescent, soon glabrate : leaves longer than the 

 internodes, coriaceous in age, entire, or some with few or several coarse teeth ; uppermo.st 

 exceeding the short peduncle : calyx purplish, nearly glabrous except the tomentose edges 

 of the sepals : carjjels in fruit forming a very dense head, villous ; the styles sometimes 

 villous below and naked or even glabrous above, sometimes villous-plumose throughout. — 

 Proc. Am. Acad. x. 339, & Bot. Gaz. ii. 123.3 (j_ integrifolia, var. Fremontii, Kuntze, 1. c. 

 177, in part. — Plains of Kansas and Missouri, Fremont, Dr. L. Watson, Lctterman. 

 ++++++ Leaves twice pinnately or in part ternately compound, and with narrow divisions: 

 divisions of the upper petioles not rarely tortuous ; flower dull colored. 



1 Butler Co., Missouri, Eggert, 1892. 



2 A species recently reinstated by Prof. Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, ii. 30, but apparently upon 

 insufficient grounds. 



3 Add Gard. and For. iii. 380, f. 49, and syn. C. cchruleuca, var. Fremontii, J. F. James, Clem. 4. 



