Description of Native Vines 
74. Climbing Fumatory. Mountain Fringe. (Adlumia 
fungosa.) 
LEAF: twice pinnate, alternate; ultimate leaflets mostly in 
threes, delicate, usually 2-3-lobed. FLOWER: white or purplish 
(petals 4, joined 7 pairs, sepals 2, stamens 6), pendent, in large 
panicles; June-October. Often cultivated, delicate, climbing by 
leaf-stems, herbaceous. New York, westand south. (Pl. VII.) 
75. Dwarf Raspberry. (Rubus triflorus.) 
LEAF: pinnate, alternate; leaflets, 3-5, 1'-2’ long, serrate, 
long- or broad-ovate, base and apex pointed, thin, smooth. 
FLOWER: white, small (petals 5-7, erect, stamens many), I-3- 
clustered ; June ; fruit small, sour, dark red. New Jersey, west 
and north; often trailing, not prickly, mostly herbaceous. 
76. Silver-weed. Potentilla. (P. anserina.) 
LEAF: pinnate, clustered ; leaflets, 9-19 (with additional mi- 
nute pairs), coarsely serrate or lobed, oblong, green above, sz/very- 
white and stlky-hatry beneath, stipules with cut edge. FLOWER: 
yellow (petals 5, stamens many), single, on long stems directly 
from the ground; June-September. New England to Pennsyl- 
vania and west ; with creeping runners. 
77. Clematis. Virgin’s-bower. (C. virginiana.) 
LEAF: pinnate, opposite; leaflets, 3, 2'-3' long, coarsely ser- 
rate, often somewhat lobed, ovate, apex long-pointed, base a little 
cordate. FLOWER: white, small (no petals, sepals 4, spreading, 
stamens many), clustered, abundant; July, August; fruit with 
feathery appendages ; climbs by twisted leaf-stems. (Pl. VII.) 
78. Whorled Clematis. (C. verticillaris.) 
LEAF : pinnate, opposite (often in pairs) ; leaflets, 3, 1'-2’ long, 
entire or slightly serrate or lobed, ovate, base often cordate, apex 
pointed. FLOWER: purplish, 2’-3' broad (no corolla, sepals 4, 
colored, spreading, many stamens), single; May. In rocky and 
mountainous ground, east; rare; climbing by twisted leaf-stems. 
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