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TRIBE I. CLEMATID'EAE* 5 



Sepals valvate in the bud, or with the edges bent inward ; petals wanting. Pcrcn- 

 nial herbs or vines; leaves all opposite. 



1. CL,EM'ATIS, L. 



[Greek, Klematis, a vine, or runner; in allusion to its pliant stem.] 

 Sepals 4, colored, the valvate margins more or less bent inward. 

 Carpels tailed with the long persistent plumose styles. Our native 

 species climbing by the petioles. 



t Flowers solitary, large: Calyx thickish or leathery. 



1. C. Viorna, L. Leaves pinnately dissected, the leaflets in 2 or 



3 distant pairs, ovate, entire, or 2- or 3-lobed ; floral leaves simple ; 

 sepals connivent, acuminate, recurved at apex. 

 WAY-ADORNING (?) CLEMATIS. Leather-flower. 



Stem 6 to 8 or 10 feet long, pubescent, purplish, finally snffruticose. Flauxrs 

 axillary ; pedundes 3 to 6 inches long, with a pair of ovate bracts near the middle. 

 Sepals violet-purple. Carpels tailed with the tawny plumose styles. 

 Hob. Borders of woods ; Londongrove : rare. Fl. July. Fr. September, 

 f f Flowers in paniculate diisters : dwicous. 



2. C. YirglniiYna, L. Leaves ternately dissected, the leaflets 

 lance-ovate, acuminate, coarsely incised-dentate or lobed, often sub- 

 cordate at base; sepals obovate-oblong, spreading. 



VIRGINIAN CLEMATIS. Virgin's Bower. Traveler's Joy. 



Stem 8 to 12 or 15 feet long, with axillary divaricate branches, green, finally 

 emoothish and suffruticose. Sepals white. Carpels tailed with the greenish-white, 

 silky-plumose styles. 

 Sab. Moist thickets; fence-rows, &c. frequent. Fl. July, Aug. Fr. Sept. 



TRIBE 2. ANEMO N NEAE. 



Sepals imbricated in the bud ; petals wanting ; leaves sometimes radical, and oppo- 

 site or whorled on the stem, forming an involucre. Perennial kerbs. 



2. AlVEMO^E, L. 



[Gr. Anemos, wind; the flowers being supposed to open only when the wind blows, j 

 Sepals 5 to 15, petal-like. Carpels without tails. Involucre of 3 or 



4 divided petiolate leaves at the base of the flower-stalks. Radical 

 leaves dissected. 



1. A. iicmordsa, L. Smooth ; flower single on a naked peduncle ; 

 carpels few, pilose. 



WOOD or GROVE ANEMONE. Wind-flower. 



Stem, or scape, 3 to 6 inches high, slender. Radical leaves often wanting. Sepals 

 usually 5 to 7, elliptic, white, often tinged with purple. 

 Hob. Moist woodlands, and thickets : frequent. Fl. April. Fr. June. 



Obs. This delicate little harbinger of the Floral season is thus re- 

 ferred to, by Doctor DARWIN, in his Botanic Garden: 



" All wan and shivering in the leafless glade, 



The sad ANEMONE reclined her head ; 



Grief on her cheek had paled the roseate hue, 



And her sweet eye-lids dropp'd with pearly dew." 



2. A. Yirginiana, L. Hairy; flowers on elongated involucel- 

 late peduncles; carpels numerous, tomentose, in dense cylindric 

 heads. 



