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ILLUSTRATE 
Vor LV. ANN ARBOR, MAY, 1884. No. 5. 
WHOLE No. 22. 
Original Communications, 
CLEMATIS VIRGINIANA. 
LOUISA REED STOWELL. 
HE name Virgin’s Bower, applied to this species, is equally 
applicable to all the species of the genus. It is also called 
Ladies’ Bower, Traveler’s Ivy, and Love Vine, from reference 
to natural arbors which it forms. 
The genus Clamatis is an extensive family, dispersed 
throughout the temperate regions of both hemispheres. It con- 
sists mostly of climbing shrubs, rarely erect, and more rarely 
with herbaceous stems. The flowers are very numerous and 
showy; hence different species are in cultivation as ornamental 
climbers. The properties of all the species, when fresh, are 
more or less acrid. 
Plants of this genus can be readily distinguished from all 
other native climbing vines, by the peculiar habit they have of 
twining their leafstalks for support. 
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