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Papaw. Custard-apple. 
Papaw-tree is very rare in this vicinity, and here its fruit 
seldom comes to maturity. It is a very small tree, with deep 
brown unhandsome flowers, and an oblong fleshy esculent fruit, 
about three inches long, and one and a half in diameter. On 
the Wissahickon; and on the road to the falls of Schuylkill, 
west side of the river, and about three miles south of the falls; 
searce. kh. April, May. 
255. CLEMATIS, Gen. pl. 960. (Ranunculacee.) 
Calix none. Petals 4, more rarely 5. Seeds 
compressed, caudate, cauda mostly plu- 
mose. 
1. C. climbing; leaves ternate, folioles ovate sub- virginiana. 
cordate, cut-dentate, andlobed ; corymbs dicho- 
tomous, few-flowered, petals longer than the 
stamens, flowers dioicous.—WWilld. and Pursh. 
Virgin’s Bower. Traveller's Joy. 
A fine climbing plant, supporting itself by winding the pe- 
tioles around other plants. Flowers white, fragrant. Seed 
furnished with a long silken or feather cauda, which gives a 
handsome appearance to the plant in fruit. In thickets, 
hedges and shrubberries, near water; common. h. June, 
July. 
256. ANEMONE. Gen. pl. 948. (Ranunculacee.) 
Calix none. Petals 5 to9, or more. Seeds 
many. 
1. A. flowers umbellate, involucrate ; radical thalictroides. 
leaves biternate, folioles subcordate, 3-toothed ; 
involucre 6-leaved, folioles petiolate, umbel few- 
flowered, seeds naked, striate ; root tuberous.— 
Willd. and Pursh. 
Thalictrum anemonoides, Mich. 
Icon. Bot. Mag. 866. Annales. du. mus. 3. t. 
21. f. 2.a. & b. Pluk. alm. t. 106. f. 4. Willd. 
hort. berol. 44. 
