20 POLYAJfDRIA. roLYGYNIA. 



Saj'mentose shrubs, or creepinjf herbs; leaver opposite, 

 conjugate cirrliose, or once or twice ternate; flowers iu 

 the shrubs ramulinc, iu the herbs at the summit of an in- 

 volucrate scape as in Anemone. 



Species. 1. A. amsricana. — A small genus of 11 or 12 

 species widely dispersed, existing* in Europe, 8iberi.'». 

 India, Japan, Barbary and the Cape of Good Hope, I aUi5 

 in America. 



383. CLEMATIS. L. (Virgin's Bower.) 



Calix none. Petals 4, more rarely 5. Seeds 

 compressed, caudate, Cauda mostly plumose. 



stems often shrubby, sarmentose or more rarely erec^; 

 leaves opposite, simple, ternate, or imperfectly pinnate; 

 £owers^ axillary or more frequently terminal, solitary but 

 mostly corymbose, in some species dioicous. 



Species. 1. Cvir^inica. 2. cordata. Ph. 3. hdose- 

 vicea. Ph. 4. WaJteri. Ph. 5- cvispa. 6, ct^lindnca. 7. 

 reticnkita. 8. Vionia. 9. sevicea. 



A genus of about 30 species distributed over the worlrl, 

 from the north of Kurope to the Levant; in Siberia, Japan, 

 China, northern and tropical America, India, the islands 

 of the Pacific, and New Zealand. 



S84. ANEMONE. L, 



Calix none. Petals 5 to 9, or more. Seeds 

 many. 



Herbaceous; leaves mostly radical, once or twice pseu- 

 dopinnate, digitate, or simply lobed; scape or stem, 1 or 

 i7)ore flowered, often involucrate, leaves of the involu- 

 crum simple or parted; seeds various, in a few species 

 c:iudute, in otiiers smooth or lanuginous, and simply ma- 

 cro p.ii'.e. 



Species. 1. A. * ludoviciana. Scape 1-flowered, in- 

 volucrate; involucrum softly lanuginous, subulately divi- 

 ded; leaves digitate, muUifid, upper surface smooth, seg- 

 ments entire, linear, acute; petals 6, oblong-ovate, erect. 

 Hab. Commencing near the confluence of the river Platte 

 and Missouri; on gravelly hills; flowering about April. 

 Clematis hirsiitissiina. Pursh 2. p. o^^S Obs. A species 

 related to A. patens and A. FulsatiUa, and much about the 

 size of the latter. Root perennial, fibrous and premorse, 

 rot tuberous; every part of the plant except the upper 

 surface qf the leaves and inner side of the petals more or 

 less covered with soft silky hair, (not the least hirsule> 



