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closed in the spur of the sepal: carpels 1-5, sessile, forming many- seeded 

 follicles. Several wild and cultivated species. 



D. Aj^cis, Linn. Annual, 1-2 feet: Howers purple, roseate or white, 

 sometimes double, many, in crowded racemes; pistil 1: follicle pubescent, 

 with short, stout beak. Cultivated and a showy garden plant: sometimes 

 escaped from giirdens. 



D. tric6rne, Michx. Perennial, 6 in. to 1 or 2 ft.: flowers blue or white, 

 in few-flowered racemes (6-12): leaves 5-parted, the divisions 3-5-cleft: 

 pistils 3: follicles widely diverging, short-beaked. In rich soil, west of 

 Alleghanies. April to June. 



10. ACT.SA. Baneberry. 



Erect, perennial plants, in rich woods, 2-3 ft., with conspicuous red or 

 white berries: steins mostly simple, bearing large, ternately compound 

 leaves, the leaflets ovate but sharply cut- lobed or toothed: flowers small, 

 white, in thick terminal racemes: sepals 3-5, soon falling; petals 4-10, long- 

 clawed, flat, spatulate: stamens many, filaments white and slender: ovary 

 1, with a broad, sessile, 2-lobed stigma, manyovuled. 



A. &lba, Bigel. White, haneherrtj. Raceme oblong: petals truncate, 

 pedicels thickened, and usually red: berries white, ellipsoid. Common in 

 woods. April to June. 



A. spicata var. rubra, Ait. Eed baneberry. Raceme ovate or hemi- 

 spherical: petals acute: pedicels slender: berries cherry -red (sometimes 

 white), oval or ellipsoid. Common in woods, especially northward. In bloom, 

 April, May. 



11. CLEMATIS. Virgin's Bower. Figs. 73, 166, .%0. 



Herbs, or somewhat woody, generally climbing by clasping petioles* 

 leaves opposite, simple or compound : flowers apetalous, or petals very small : 

 sepals 4 (rarely more) and colored: stamens many, a number of them (some- 

 times all) usually sterile: pistils many in a head, bearing the persistent, 

 plumose or silky styles. Many large-flowered cultivated forms. 



C. verticill&riB, DC. A woody climber, nearly smooth: leaves in whorls 

 of 4's, each 3-foliolate: large, purple flowers 2-3 in. across, at each node. 

 Not common, belonging mainly to the North and to mountainous districts: 

 May, June. 



C. Vi6rna, Linn. Leaves mostly pinnately compound, with .3-7 leaflets, 

 entire, or 3-lobed: flowers solitary and usually nodding on long peduncles. 

 bell-shaped, having peculiarly thick sepals, with their points reourvcd: 

 purplish-red color: the long akenes plumose. Climbing, Penn., W. May 

 to August. 



C. Virginid,na, Linn. Common virgin^s bower. Old-man vine (from 

 the heads of hairy styles). A common climbing plant, along fences, streams 

 and in low woodlands: leaves compound, glabrous, with 3 leaflets cut or 

 lobed and nearly heart-shaped at base: flowers small, in leafy panicles, poly- 

 gamo-dioecious : petals none, but sepals whitifh, thin, spreading: styles 

 long-pluroed io fruit, making a feathery cluster. July, August. 



