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CHAPTER I. 
RANUNCULACEiE Dec. 
Essential Characteii. — Sepals usually five, but sometimes varying 
from three to six. Petals frequently wanting, or confounded with the 
sepals ; when present frequently unequal, or assuming unusual shapes. 
Stamens numerous, growing from beneath the pistil. Carpels numerous. 
growing close together on an elevated receptacle or torus. Fruit ge- 
nerally either a caryopsis or follicular. Leaves alternate or] opposite, 
generally much laciniated, with the petiole dilated, so as to form a kind 
of sheath round the stem. 
Description, &c. — There are very few exotic plants in this order, and, indeed, of those few still fewer are 
ornamental. A few kinds of Clematis and Anenome are all that can be properly called ornamental in the order ; 
though the genus Knowltonia may he mentioned for its singularity. 
GENUS I. 
CLEMATIS Un. THE CLEMATIS. 
Un. Syst. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Generic Character. — Petals wanting. Calyx of from four to eight coloured petal-like sepals. Carpels caryopsides, and terminated by a long 
tail, which is generally feathery. Leaves opposite, generally deeply cut. Roots fibrous. 
Description, &c. — Some of the greenhouse species of this genus will live and flower in the open air, and this 
is the case with the two that I have figured. There is, however, a great difference between merely existing, and 
flowering in full beauty ; and no one who has ever seen the splendour of the one, can rest satisfied with the 
other, unless compelled to do so. The genus Clematis is divided into two sections ; the first of which comprises 
the most hardy species, and is distinguished by the tails of the carpels being long and featheiy, like those of 
the Common Traveller’s Joy ; and the other, which contains the more beautiful and ornamental species, which 
are also more tender, is distinguished by the tails of the carpels being short and naked. The plants I am 
about to describe are all contained in the last section. 
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