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14. COPTIS. Leaves of 3 leaflets. 



15. NIGELLA. Leaves fiaely dissected. 



= = = Petals large hollow spurs projecting between the sepals. 



16. AQUILEGIA. Pistils usually 5. Leaves compound. 



++ ++ Flowers irregular and unsymvietrical, racemose orpanicled. 



17. DELPHINIUM. Upper sepal spurred. 



18. ACONITU.M. Upper sepals in the form of a hood or helmet. 



++++++ Flowers regular, racemose; sepals falling when the flower opens, petal-like. 



19. ACT^A. Pistil only one, becoming a berry. Flowers in a short and thick raceme 



or cluster. 



20. CIMICIFUGA. Pistils 1-8, becoming pods in fruit. Flowers in long racemes. 

 ♦+++++++ Flowers very large, regular, not racemose; sepals herbaceous and per- 

 sistent. 



21. P-EONIA. Pistils 2 or more, becoming leathery pods. 



+- +- Ovules a single pair. Flowers regular, solitary, or in compound racemes. Herbs 



or shrubs. 



22. XANTHORRHIZA. Petals 5, small. Little pods 1-seeded. Undershrub, with yellow 



wood and roots. 



23. HYDRASTIS. Petals none. Fruit berry -like. Low perennial. 



1. CLEMATIS, VIRGIN'S BOWER. (The Greek name of a climb- 

 ing plant.) Akenes numerous, in a head, the persistent style forming 

 naked, hairy, or plumose tails to the fruit. Many garden hybrids and 

 forms. ^ Ornamental climber-s, with somewhat woody stems ; a few 

 are erect herbs. (Lessons, Figs. 278, 9.79, 378.) 



§L Flowers solitary ; climbers. 



* Sepals thin, spreading, 6 or more. 



C. flSrida, Thunb. Flowers 3'-4' across, sepals broad-ovate, white, 

 purplish, or with a purple center of transformed .stamens (var. Sie- 

 b6ldii) ; leaves usually twice compound. Japan. 



C. lanuginosa, Lindl. Cult, from China. Flowers 6-10' across, 

 lavender. Leaves thick, usually simple (rarely ternate), cordate, acute, 

 smooth above, hairy below ; buds woolly, 



C. Jack.manni of gardens is a hybrid between this species and C. Viti- 

 cella. 



C. patens, Morr. & Dene., also called C. c<erulea, and various 

 names for varieties. Flower b'-T across, with 6-9 or more oblong or 

 lance-shaped sepals of various colors ; leaflets simply in threes. Japan. 



» « Sepals thin, spreading, 4 only. 



C. verticilliris. DC. Flowers about 3' across, sepals bluish-purple, 

 acute ; leaflets mostly entire ; akenes with feathery tails. Rocky woods 

 or ravines N. and in mountainous parts. 



C. Viticella, Linn. Vise Bower C. From Eu. ; a hardy climber, 

 with flower 2'—"}' across ; the widely spreading sepals obovate, either pur- 

 ple or blue ; akenes with short, naked points. 



C. orientalis. Linn. Heavy-scented C. Cult, from Central Asia; 

 flowers yellow, 1 ' across, sepals ovate, bluntish ; long and feathery tails 

 to the akenes. In cult, as C. graveolens. 



* * * Sepals thick, leathery, erect. 



C. Viorna, Linn. Leather Flower. Wild from Penn. and Mo., S., 

 in rich soil ; sepals purple or purplish, 1' long or more, erect, and with the 

 narrow tips only spreading or recurved ; akenes with very feathery tails. 



