CROWFOOT FAMILY. 35 



1. CLEMATIS, VIRGIN'S-BOWER. (Ancient Greek name.) U Orna- 

 mental climbers, the stalks of their leaves or leaflets clasping the support, 

 and with somewhat woody stems, or a few are erect herbs. 

 1. Flowers (in spring) very large and widely open (3' -6' across), loith usually 



mam/ small petals or petal-like altered stamens: leaflets in threes. 

 C. fl6rida, GREAT-FL. C. Cult, from Japan, not hardy N. ; the flower 



3' - 4' across, its 6 or more sepals broad ovate and overlapping each other, white, 



purplish, or with a purple centre of transformed stamens (var. SIEBOLDII); 



leaves often twice compound. 



C. patens, (also called C. CCERULEA, GRANDIFI^RA, and various names 



for varieties.) Cult, from Japan, hardy. Flower 5' -7' across, with 6-9 or 



more oblong or lance-shaped sepals, blue, purple, &c. ; leaflets simply in threes. 

 C. verticillaris (or ATRAGENE AMERICANA), with flowers about 3' across, 



of 4 bluish-purple sepals, is rather scarce in, rocky woods or ravines N. and in 



mountainous parts. 



2. Flowers (in summer) pretty large, of only 4 sepals, and no petals whatever, 



not white, solitary on the naked peduncle as in 1. 

 * Leaves (except the uppermost] pinnate or of 3 or more leaflets: climbers. 



C. Viticella, VINE-BOWER C. Cult, from Eu. ; a hardy climber, with 

 flower 2' -3' across; the widely spreading sepals obovate, thin, either purple or 

 blue ; akenes with short naked points. 



C. graveolens. HEAVY-SCENTED C. Cult, from Thibet, recently intro- 

 duced, very hardy ; with open vellow flowers 1^' across, long and feathery tails 

 to the akenes, and sharp-pointed leaflets. 



C. Viorna, LEATHER-FLOWERED C. Wild from Penn. and Ohio S., in 

 moist soil ; flower of very thick leathery sepals, purple or purplish, 1' long or 

 more, erect, and with the narrow tips only spreading or recurved ; akenes with 

 very feathery tails. 



* * Leaves simple, entire, sessile : low erect herbs : tails feathery. 



C. integrifblia, ENTIRK-LEAVED C. Cult, from Eu., sparingly. Stem 

 simple ; leaves oval or oblong; flower blue, 1' long. 



C. ochroletica, PALE C. Wild from Staten Island S., but scarce, has 

 ovate silky leaves and a dull silky flower. 



3. Flowers (in summer) small, white, panicled, succeeded by feathery-tailed akenes. 



C. recta, UPRIGHT VIRGIN'S-BOWER. Cult, from Eu. Nearly erect herb, 

 3 -4 hL r h, with large panicles of white flowers, in early summer; leaves pin- 

 nate ; leaflets ovate or slightly heart-shaped, pointed, entire. 



C. Flammula, SWEET-SCENTED V. Cult, from Eu. Climbing freely, 

 with copious sweet-scented flowers at midsummer; leaflets 3-5 or more, of 

 various shapes, often lotted or cut. 



C. Virginiana, COMMON WILD V. Climbing high, with dioecious flow- 

 ers late in summer ; leaflets 3, cut-toothed or lobed. 



2. HEPATICA, LIVER-LEAF, HEPATICA. (Shape of the 3-lobed 

 leaves likened to that of the liver.) Among the earliest spring flowers. U Th* 

 involucre is so close to the flower and of such size and shape that it is most 

 likely to be mistaken for a calyx, and the colored sepals for petals. 



H. triloba, ROUND-LOBED H. Leaves with 3 bro:id ami rounded lobes, 

 appearing later than the flowers, and lasting over the winter ; stalks hairy ; 

 flowers blue, purple, or almost white. Woods, common E. Full double- 

 flowered varieties, blue and purple, are cult, from F,u 



H. acutiloba, SIIARI>-LOP.KI> H. Wild from Vermont W. ; has pointed 

 lobes to the leaves, sometimes ft of them, and paler flowers. 



3. ANEMONE, ANEMONY. WIND-FLOWER. (Fancifully FO named 

 by the Greeks, because growing in windy places, or blossoming at the windy 

 reason, it is doubtful which.) U Erect herbs, with all the stem leaves above 

 and opposite or whorled, forming the involucre or involucels. Peduncles 

 1 -flowered. 



