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This early flower is more delicate in its habit and colors than 

 the common garden species. Root somewhat fusiform, pene- 

 trating the clefts of rocks. Stem erect, branching. Leaves 

 once or twice ternate, lobed. Flowers on the ends of the 

 branches, pendulous, scarlet without, and yellow within. The 

 nectaries resemble straight horns, alternating with the petals, 

 which are oval and acute. Stamens numerous, yellow, pro- 

 jecting. Filiments filiform, unequal; anthers oval. Germs 

 oblong, acute, pubescent, appressed together. Styles filiform. 

 After flowering the fruit becomes erect. — Dry hills, rocks, and 

 pastures. — April, May. — Perennial. 



240. CIMICIFUGA. 

 CiMiciFUGA RACEMOSA. Ell. Black Snake root. 



Racemes very long; leafets ovate-oblong, incisely 

 toothed. 

 Syn, AcT-EA racemosa. L. 



Macrotrts racemosa. Eat. 



ClMICIFUGA SERPENTARIA. PuTSh. 



Three feet or more in height. Leaves thrice ternate. Ra- 

 ceme branching. Flowers fetid. Calyx greenish white ; petals 

 from four to eight. Capsules smooth, round-ovate. — In Vermont 

 and Rhode Island. Mr. Eddy. 



POLYGYNIA. 



241. CLEMATIS. 

 Clematis Virginiana. L. Traveller's Joy. Virgin's 



Bower. 

 Leaves trifoliate ; leafets heart-shaped, sublobate- 

 angular, climbing ; flowers dioecious. L. 



A climbing hardy vine. The stem gives ofi'at intervals a pair 

 of opposite petioles, which twine round objects of support, serv- 

 ing the purpose of tendrils ; each bears three heart-shaped leaf- 

 ets, which are variously toothed and lobed. Peduncles axillary, 

 bearing cymes of white flowers, which are dioecious, the fertile 

 flowers having imperfect anthers. The most remarkable ap- 

 pearance of this plant is when in fruit; the long feathery tails of 

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