Clematis. RAM NCI LAri:.K. 7 



Mexican border, Cheuati Mts., W. Texas, Ilavard, ami .Santa Kit.' iltl (olna, llitjdow. 

 (Mex. Coulter, Ilartwaj, Parry ^- Palmer.) 

 C. crispa, L. Glabrous or nearly so, climbing freely, but often floweriu;.; when only a foot 

 or a yard high : leaHcts from ovate or even cordate to laMceolate, acuie or acuminate, 

 menibiaiiaceous, little reticulated : peduncle naked, between a pair of compound or rawdy 

 simple leaves: calyx rose-colored varying to violet: sepals from an inch to almost 2 

 inches long, recurved or spreading from near the middle, tlie spreading ])orti<,'i with broad 

 undulate margins: styles canescent to villous in flower, in fruit either almost gliil<nvte (and 

 the upper part falling away in age) or villous with erect hairs. — Spec. i. 543 (founded 

 wholly ou C. Jiore-crlspo, Dill. Eltli. 86, t, 73) ; Willd. Spec. ii. !289; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 

 1892; LindL Bot. Keg. xxxii. t. 60; Torr. & Gray, ¥1. i. 10; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 16, t. 2, & 

 Bot. Mag. 1. c; Lavalle'e, Clem. 49, t. 14, not DC. (wliich is European near or a var. of 

 C. viticella). C. Viorna, Audr. Bot, Kep. t. 71, not L. fj. cylindrica, Sims, Bot. Mag. 

 t. 1160 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; Lavallee, 1. c. 43, t. 13. C. divaricala, Jacq. f. Eel. i. 51, t. 33. 

 C. cordata, Sims, Bot. Mag, t. 1816, not Pursh. C. distorta, Lavalle'e, 1. c. 37, t. 11. 

 C. Simsii, Sweet, Hort. Brit. 1 ; Kuntze, Verb. Bot. Brandeuljurg, 1885, 134, in part. Viti- 

 cella crispa (partly) & Viorna cylindrica, Spach, Hist. Veg. vii. 267, 269. (Perhaps the C. Viorna, 

 Andr., C. cylindrica, Sims, & C. diraricata, Jacq. f., originated in a cross with C. viticella.) 

 — Low ground, S. Virginia to Florida and Texas.^ 



Var. Walter!, Gray. Flowering when low: leaflets from lanceolate (3 or i lines 

 wide) to almost lincarf— Bot. Mag. under t. 6594. C. Wulteri, Tursh, Fl. ii. 384. C. cyii.i- 

 drica, var. Walter i, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 10. C. lineariloba, DC. Syst. i. 155, & Dele-ss. Ic. 

 Sel. t. 3, a most attenuate form, with sepals artificially outspread. — S. Carolina to Texas, 

 passing freely to broader-leaved form. 



-f— -t— Low and erect herbs, simple or simply branched: flowers solitary and terminal. 

 ++ Leaves narrow, at least the lower simple and sessile, with narrow base, thinuish, not 



reticulated. 

 C. Bald'winii, Tour. & Gray. Somewhat pubescent, glabrate •■ stems slender, simple or 

 branched from near the base, few-leaved, ternnnating in a long strict peduncle : leaves from 

 lanceolate-oblong to linear and entire, or upper ones 3-5-cleft or parted into lanceolate or 

 linear divisions, these more or less petioled : flower nearly of C. crispa : carpel-tails nmch 

 elongated (3 inches long), filiform, conspicaously plumose throughout. — Fl. i. 8; Chapm. 

 Fl. 3. — Open pine woods, Florida; first coll. by Baldwin. 

 ++ ++ Leaves broadly ovate (2 to 5 inches long), sessile or subsessile by a broad base, 



all undivided, exceedingly reticulated : flower dull colored : sepals with narrow explauate 



margins only at tip. 

 C. ochroleuca, Ait. Densely sericeou.s-pubescent, glabrate in age : leaves about the length 

 of the internodes, pale, chartaceous in age, quite entire or upper occasionally 3-cleft or 

 incised : peduncle equalling or surpassing the uppermost pair of leaves : calyx externally 

 sericeous-canescent, greenish yellow or purplish, the tips within dull yellowish : akencs 

 pubescent, the styles (about inch long) very plumose. — Kew. ii. 260; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 

 t. 661 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 7; Torr. Fl. N. Y. i. 6, t. 1. C. sericea, Michx. Fl. i. 319. 

 C. ovala, I'ursh, Fl. ii. 736, a very glabrate form! 2 C. integrifolia, var. tomcntosa, &c., 

 Kuntze, 1. c. 176. — Dry ground. Long Island, New York, to Upper Georgia. 

 C. Fremontii, Watson. Loosely villous-pubescent, soon glabrate : leaves longer than the 

 internodes, coriaceous in age, entire, or some with few or several coarse teeth ; upperm«».st 

 exceeding the short peduncle : calyx purplish, nearly glabrous except the tomentose edges 

 of the sepals: carpels in fruit forming a very dense head, villous; the styles sometimes 

 villous below and naked or even glabrous above, sometimes villous-plumose throughout. — 

 Proc. Am. Acad. x. 339, & Bot. Gaz. ii. 123.3 c. integri/olia, var. Fremontii, Kuntze, 1. c 

 177, in part. — Plains of Kansas and Missouri, Fremont, Dr. L. Wnlson, Dtlerman. 

 ++++++ Leaves twice pinnately or in part ternately com])ound, and with narrow divisions : 



divisions of the upper petioles not rarely tortuous ; flower dull colored. 



1 Butler Co., Missouri, E<j()ert, 1S92. 



2 A species recently reinstated by Prof. Britton. Jlem. Torr. Gul., ii. 3(», but aiM>arently upon 

 insufficient grounds. 



8 Add Gard. and For. iii. 3S0, f. 49, and syn. C. <clm<leum, v.ir. Fremmitii, ^. F. J.w.os, Clem. 4. 



