

clematis. RANUNCULACE.E. 9 



§ 2 Viorna Spach. Flowers large, hermaphrodite, solitary and 

 mostly nodding on rather long peduncles., Petals none. Anthers 

 long and slender, pointed. Filaments hirsute or pubescent. Ours 

 herbaceous perennials. 



C> Douglasii Hook. Fl. i, 1. t. 1. Stems simple or branched, more or 

 less villous, woolly at the joints : leaves 2-3-pinnatifid with linear to linear- 

 lanceolate segments : flowers nodding, on erect naked peduncles that elon- 

 gate in fruit : sepals thick', pubescent, more or less spreading and woolly at 

 the apex, deep purple inside, paler externally. High mountsins, E.' Ore- 

 gon to Brit. Columbia and the Rocky Mountains. 



C Scottii Porter Fl. Col. 1. More or less villous with soft spreading 

 hairs ; bushy, branching from a suffrutescent base ; branches erect, 9-18 

 inches high; leaves opposite, on rather long petioles, large, pinnate, with 

 some or all of the divisions 3-5-parted or 3-5-foliate ; lobes or leaflets ob- 

 long or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 4-5 lines broad by an inch 

 long; some upper leaves with distinctly tortuous partial petioles: flowers 

 axillary and terminal, nodding, on peduncles 3-6 inches long : sepals 4, 

 ovate, with reflexed summits, nearly an inch long, dark- or brownish-pur- 

 ple, thickish, more or less tomentose outside : achenes silky-pubescent, 

 with densely plumose tails 1-1 % inches long. Beaver Canyon Idaho to 

 southern Colorado. 



§ 3. Athagene DC. Flowers large, hermaphrodite, solitary on 

 naked peduncles. Sepals much exceeding the stamens and pistils, 

 spreading from the base, thin, petaloid. Anthers short, on long 

 pubescent filaments : usually some of the outermost filaments 

 enlarging to small spatulate petals. Half-woody plants that climb 

 by the petioles. 



C. verticillaris DC. Syst. i, 166. Stems slender, somewhat woody, al- 

 most glabrous; leaves ternate ; leaflets petiolulate, ovate or subcordate, ab- 

 ruptly acuminate : flowers solitary, bluish-purple, 2-3 inches across. In 

 mountains from Idaho northward, and eastward to the Atlantic States. 



C. Columbiana T. & G. Fl. i. 11, Stems somewhat woody : leaves ter- 

 nate ; leaflets petiolulate, ovate, acute, obscurely crenulate : flowers solitary 

 1-2 inches broad, pale blue ; sepals ovate, acuminate, nearly twice the length 

 of the stamens. Wild Horse Plains Washington to the Rocky Mountains 

 and Brit. Columbia. 



C. ochotensis Poir. Suppl. ii, 298. C, alpina var. occidentalis Gray. 

 Stems woody, trailing : leaves biternately divided, with ovate or oblong-lan- 

 ceolate acuminate, often 3-lobed, irregularly toothed segments : sepals 4, lance 

 -ovate, purplish-blue: spatulate and petaloid staminodes few and usually with 

 rudiments of anthers, or none : carpels glabrous with vciy finely plumose 

 tails \% inches long. Washington to the Rocky Mountains and Dakota. 



Tribe 2. Anemonex DC. Sepals petaloid or greenish, imbricated 

 in the bud. Pistils numerous, becoming achenes. Ovule suspended. 

 Herbs with the leaves all radical, or alternate, or whorled below 1- 

 several-Uowered peduncles. 



2 ANEMONE Tourn. Inst. 275. L Gen. n. 696. ed. 4 



Erect perennial herbs with lobed or divided leaves which are 

 all radical except those that form an involucre below the flower. 

 Sepals 4-20, colored and petaloid. Petals none. Ovaries num- 

 erous; style short; stigma lateral; ovule suspended. Achenes 



