782 ANEMONE. [CLASS XIII. ORDER III. 



or lobed, sub-cordate at the base; petioles twining; panicles forked, 

 shorter than the leaves, hairy, as well as the oblong sepals. 



English Botany, t. 612. — English Flora, vol. iii. p. 39. — Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 217. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 8. 



A climbing widely spreading leafy shrub, with long slender deeply 

 furrowed downy branches, much divided and entangled, supporting 

 itself by twisting its branches and wiry petioles round other shrubs, 

 trees, &c. Leaves numerous, opposite, pinnate, with two pair of 

 leaflets and a terminal one, with long slightly furrowed downy wiry 

 footstalks, twisting around like tendrils, and persistent leaflets, ovate 

 lanceolate, or acutely pointed with a rounded or heart-shaped base, a 

 dark green, paler beneath, with prominent mid-rib and lateral veins, 

 downy, deciduous, with an entire margin, or coarsely toothed or lobed. 

 Inflorescence axillary forked panicles, with linear bracteas, tomentose. 

 Calyx petaloid, of four oblong white tomentose spreading pieces. 

 Stamens numerous, erect, with linear club-shaped filaments, and 

 yellow anthers, of two linear cells. Styles feathery, with a simple 

 stigma. Fruit small, compressed, single seeded, capsules crowned by 

 the elongated feathery style. 



Habitat. — Hedges, not unfrequent, especially in a calcareous soil. 



Shrub ; flowering in July. 



The Traveller's Joy, and other species of Clematis, are favourite 

 climbing plants for harbours, trelliswork, &c., having for the most 

 part fragrant flowers ; they have acrid juices, which, applied to the skin, 

 produce irritation, inflammation, and, if long continued, ulceration, 

 which dileterious properties are poisonous to animals if the herbage is 

 eaten fresh ; but if the leaves are collected and dried, they then lose 

 their active volatile principle, and form a good fodder : this at least is 

 the case with C. Vitalba, and the young tender shoots of it, as well as 

 C. flammula, both of which are common in Italy, are gathered by the 

 country people in the spring, and boiled as a pot-herb. Few of our 

 native shrubs present a more beautiful appearance, particularly in the 

 sequestered dells of the rural districts, or add more wild solemnity to 

 the ruined castle or mouldering abbey. 



GENUS XX. ANE'MONE Linn. Anemone. 



Nat. Ord. RANUNCULi'cE.^;. De Cahd. 



Gen. Char. Calyx petaloid, of five or many pieces. Corolla wanting. 

 Capsules single seeded, inserted into a thickened hemispherical 

 receptacle. Involucre more or less remote from the flower. — Name 

 from a.Mti/.og, the wind ; from an old opinion that they only blos- 

 somed when the wind blew, or because ihey mostly grew in exposed 

 situations. 



