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I Fapaw. Custard-apple, 
j 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 ; 
j scarce. I 2 . April, May. 
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^ 255. CLEMATIS. Gen. pi. 960. (JR.anunculacece.') 
Calix none. Petals % more rarely 5. Seeds 
compressed^ caudate^ cauda mostly plu- 
mose. 
1. C. climbing; leaves ternate, folioles ovate sub- virginiana. 
cordate, cut-dentate, ami lobed; corymbs dicho- 
tomous, few-flowered, petals longer than the 
stamens, flowers dioicous. — Willd, 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. Ii . June, 
July. 
256. ANEMONE. Gen. pi. 948. {Ranunculace<e.) 
Calix none. Petals 5 to 9^ or more. Seeds 
many. 
1 . A. flowers umbellate, involucrate ; radical ‘ha^ictroides. 
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. 
£1. f. £. a. & b. Pluk. aim. 1. 106. f. 4. Willd. 
hort. berol. 44. 
