: 9° RANUNCULACEAE, : \ 73 
Family RANUNCULACEAE, Buttercup Family. 
A large family, chiefly herbaceous, of no great economic 
use but often becoming troublesome weeds; the paeonies and 
virgin’s bowers are largely planted. 
PAEONIA, Paeony. 
Usually herbs and not evergreen, with alternate pinnately 
parted large leaves; large white or red polypetalous perfect 
flowers; and fruit of several often large follicles each with 
several large seeds. 
Not woody: ovaries not sheathed.. Herbaceous paeonies. 
Soft-woody: ovaries sheathed at base. P. suffruticosa. 
CLEMATIS. Virgin’s Bower. 
More or less woody plants mostly climbing by their per- 
sistent leaf-stalks, with 6-sided or ribbed slender stems; soft 
wood with large crowded vernal ducts, few and minute summer 
ducts, and coarse wedge-shaped medullary rays; relatively. large 
roundish homogeneous pale pith; opposite mostly pinnate stalked 
leaves with the leaflets not falling from a distinct scar when 
deciduous; axillary solitary or clustered usually perfect often 
very large apetalous flowers with corolla-like calyx; and large 
akenes with long often feathery style. 
1. Leaves simple. 2. 
Leaves compound. 6. 
2. Leaves entire. 3. 
Leaves toothed: not climbing. C. Fremontii. 
3. Flowers creamy: not climbing. C. ochroleuca. 
Flowrs blue or purple. 4. 
4. Not climbing: flowers small, urn-shaped. CC. integrifolia. 
Climbing: flowers large and open. C. lanuginosa. 
5. Leaflets entire. 6. 
Leaflets. toothed. 12. 
6. Flowers urn-shaped, small. 7. 
Flowers open. 9. 
. Styles hairy in fruit. 8. 
Styles not feathery. , C crispa. 
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