4 RANUNCULACEiE. (CROWFOOT FAMILY.) 
Tribe I. CLEMATiDE^E. The Virgin’s-^bower Tribe. 
1. ATRAfiENE, L. Atragene. 
Sepals 4, colored ; their valvate margins slightly turned inwards 
in the bud. Petals several, slender, like sterile stamens. Anthers 
linear. Achenia numerous in a head, bearing the persistent styles 
in the form of long plumose tails. — Perennial vines, climbing by 
the leafstalks ; stems a little woody. Leaves opposite, compound. 
Peduncles 1-flowered. (Derivation obscure : the name was ghen 
to a climbing plant by Theophrastus.) 
1. A. Americana, Sims. (American Atragene.) Leaflets 
stalked, ovate, pointed, entire or a little toothed, sometimes slightly 
heart-shaped. — Shady rocky hills, Maine and western N. England to 
Michigan. April, May. — From each of the opposite buds in spring 
there arise two ternate leaves with long-stalked leaflets, and a pe* 
duncle which bears a bluish-purple flower, 2-3 inches across. 
2. CLEMATIS, L. Virgin’s-bower. 
Sepals 4, colored, the valvate margins more or less bent inward? 
in the bud. Petals none. Anthers linear. Achenia numerous 
in a head, bearing the persistent styles mostly as hairy or plu¬ 
mose tails. — Perennial herbs or vines, a little woody, and climb¬ 
ing by the twisting of the leafstalks. Leaves opposite. 
a name applied by Dioscorides to a climbing plant with long ^ 
lithe branches.) 
* Peduncles bearing single large flowers: calyx thickish or leathery 
1. C. ochrolcuca, Ait. (Pale Virgin’s-bower.) ^ 
simple, erect; leaves simple, ovate, entire, clothed with soft, ^ 
hairs.— Copses near Brooklyn, New York. May. — A f° ot 1 
leaves 3 inches long, reticulated and soon smooth above. C a • 
silky outside, yellowish within. Tails of the fruit finely plumose. 
2. C. Vionia, L. (Leather-flower). Smooth; stem 
ing ; leaves bearing 3-7 ovate or oblong, entire or 2 — 3 lobed 
or on the flower branches simple; calyx bell-shaped, the (purpn- 
sepals very thick and leathery, with the points narrow and recUI T! 
tails of the fruit very plumose. — Rich soil, Penn, and Ohio. * a * 
-Aug. 
* * Flmcers in panicled clusters. ■ 
3. C* Virginiana, L. (Common Virgin’s-bower.) ® Bl00 n( j 
leaves bearing 3 ovate acute leaflets, which are cut or lobed, u 
somewhat heart-shaped at the base ; tails of the fruit plumose.— 
