a BRITISH BOTANY, 



a series of dry, oue-seeded, indeliiscent carpels, or of dry, many- 

 seeded carpels, wliicli are either free or united at the base, and 

 opening 'by a ventral placental suture («. e. a follicle), very rarely 

 baccate and indehiscent. Seeds ascending or suspended (pendu- 

 lous). Embryo straight, minute, in a thick corneous albumen 

 (perisperm). Radicle towards the hilum. 



Tribe I. Clematide^. — Shrubby or herbaceous plants; branches 

 and leaves opposite. Petals wanting. Prefloration val- 

 vular. Carpels indefinite, one-seeded, not opening. An- 

 thers extrorse. 

 Tribe II. Ranunculete. — Leaves alternate or radical. Petals 

 regular, rarely wanting, imbricated. Carpels nume- 

 rous, one-seeded, not opening. 

 Tribe III. HELLEBOREiE. — Leaves alternate or radical. Petals 

 irregular, nectariferous. Carpels 3-10, very rarely so- 

 litary, many-seeded, opening. 

 Tribe IV. PiEONiEiE. — Leaves alternate or radical. Carpels 2-5 

 or solitary, many- seeded, follicular or opening, or bac- 

 cate and not opening. 



Tribe I. CLEMJTIDU.^ .- The Clematis Tribe. — Qtems woody, 

 rarely herbaceous, with opposite leaves and spreading branches. 

 Corolla wanting. Sepals valvnlar before their expansion. Carpels 

 indefinite, one-seeded, not opening. 



Clematis, Lin. — Perennial plants, with climbing woody stems, 

 rarely herbaceous. Leaves opposite. Flowers in panicles. Sepals 

 4-5, coloured and petaloid (like petals) . Corolla wanting. Car- 

 pels terminating in a long feathery style, which increases after 

 flowering. Seed suspended. 



C. Vitalba, Lin. Common Traveller's Joy. — Eng. Bot. 612. 

 L.B. S. H. 1. 



Area, C Prov. Connties, 30. Lat. 50-.53°. Alt. 0-200 yds. Tern. 

 52-48°.» 

 Stems woody, climbing, very variable in length and thickness. 



* Eng. Bot. or E. B. G12 signifies that the plant is represented in Sowerby's 

 English Botany on plate 612. L. B. S. H. 1, means that it is the first plant in the 

 Herbarium of the London Botanical Society, or the first in the London Catalogue 

 of British Plants. A. 6, intimates that it is found in 6 botanical provinces ; also in 

 30 counties, between latitude 50° and 53°, with an altitudinal range of, from the 

 coast-line, 0, to 200 yards of vertical height. Tem. 52-48° means that these are 

 the two means of annxial temperature of the tracts where it grows. 



