CROWFOOT FAMILY. 35 



14. C0PTI8. Loaves of lUeaflota. 



15. NIGELLA. Leaves finely dissected. 



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



16. AQUILEGLV. Pistils usually 5. Leaves compound. 



++-H- Flowers irregular and unsymmetrical, racemose or panicled. 



17. DELPHINIUM. Upper sepiil spurred. 



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



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



19. ACT^EA. 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^ONIA. Pistils 2 or more, becoming leathery pods. 



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

 or shrubs. 



22. XANTHORUIIIZA. 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. 2/ Ornamental climbers, with somewhat woody stems ; a few 

 are erect herbs. (Lessons, Figs. 278, 279, 378.) 



§ 1. Flowers solitary ; climbers. 



* Sepals thin, spreading, fl or more. 



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

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

 b6ldii) ; leaves usually twice compound. Japan. 



C. /anugindsa, Lindl. Cult, from China. Flowers O'-IO' across, 

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

 smooth above, hairy below ; buds woolly. 



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

 cella. 



C. patens, Morr. & Dene., also called C. ccERtLEA, and various 

 names for varieties. Flower 5'-7' across, with 6-9 or more oblong or 

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



* * Sepals thin, spreading, 4 only. 



C. verticilldrio, l.»C. Flowers about 3' across, sepals blui.sh-purple, 

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

 or ravines N. and in mountainous parts. 



C. Viticella, Linn. Vink Howkk C. From Eu. ; a hardy climber, 

 with flower 2'-3' across ; the widely spreading sepals obovate, either pur- 

 ple or blue ; akenes with short, naked points. 



C. orientalis, Linn. Heavv-s( i;\ti;i> C. Cult, from Central Asia; 

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

 to the akenes. In cult, as C. <iRAvii;oi,ENs. 



* * * Sepals thick, leathery, erect. 



C. Vioma, Linn. Leather Flower. AVild from Penn. and Mo., S., 

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

 narrnw tips only spreading f)r recurved ; akenes with very feathery tails. 



