CLEMATIS 
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Subtribe VI. Anemoninae (p. 115). Perennial herbs. Leaves radical. Bracts usually leaf- 
like, petaloid in Adonis. Sepals petaloid, imbricate. Nectar-leaves absent. Stigmas either deciduous 
or persistent and with long hairs in fruit as in Clematis. Seed suspended. 
Subtribe VII. Myosurinae (p. 124). Small, annual herbs. Leaves radical. Sepals petaloid, 
imbricate. Nectar-leaves present, each with a tubular limb. Stamens few. Achenes very numerous. 
Seed suspended. 
Subtribe VIII. Ranunculinae (p. 124). Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves either all radical 
or radical and stem-leaves alternate. Sepals not or scarcely petaloid, imbricate. Ahctar- leaves pre- 
sent, with a small basal nectary and a large petaloid limb. Seed erect or ascending, suspended. 
Subtribe V. CLEM A TI DIN AE 
Clematidinae nobis; Clematidae DC. Syst. Nat. i, 129 et 131 (1818). 
For characters, see page 113. Only British genus: — Clematis. 
Genus 8. Clematis 
Clematis [Dillenius Hort. Eltham. 86(1732);] L. Sp. PI. 543 0753 ) et Gen. PI. ed. 5, 242 (1754); Prantl 
op. cit. 61 et 62 (1891) [ Clematitis Tournefort Inst. 293, t. 150 (1700); Viticella Dillenius App. Cat. Giss. suppl. 
165 (1719)]- 
Perennial, usually climbing plants. Stems weak. Petioles tendriloid. Laminae usually com- 
pound. Inflorescence axillary or terminal. Flowers protandrous, actinomorphic, usually without 
nectar. Sepals 4—8, usually 4, deciduous. Stamens 00 , filaments coloured. Carpels 00 ; each with a 
long style, elongating in fruit when it is usually covered with numerous spreading silky hairs. 
The only British species ( C . vilalba) belongs to the section Flammula (DC. Syst. Nat. i, 132 et 133 (1818)) distin- 
guished by the absence of an involucre of bracts and of nectar-leaves or petals. 
About 1 70 species ; temperate and tropical zones. 
I. CLEMATIS VITALBA. Traveller’s Joy or Old Man’s Beard. Plate in 
Vitis sylvestris solani foliis Turner Names G viii back (1548); Viorna Gerard Herball 739 (1 597 ) ; C- latifolia 
sen atragene quibusdam Ray Syn. ed. 3, 258 (1724). 
Map 45. Distribution of Clematis vitalba in the British Islands. Possibly the species is not indigenous in Ireland 
Clematis vitalba L. Sp. PI. 543 ( 1753 ); Smith Eng. Bot. no. 612(1799)!; FI. Brit. 583(1800); Syme 
Eng. Bot. i, 2 (1863); Rouy et Foucaud FI. France i, 4 (1893). 
leones: — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 612; Curtis FI. Lond. ii, t. 106; Jacquin Ft. Austr. iv, t. 308; Reichenbach 
Icon, iv, t. 64, fig. 4667. 
