. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. WILD CLEMATIS. The Clematis stem does not twine, it puts forth no tendrils; the leaf petioles do the work; they take a sort of sailor's knot about outlying branches and twigs, and in this way the stem rises little by little until, having reached the top, it spreads out its panicles of white stars to the sunlight and rejoices in its success. The flowers are of two kinds, pistillate and staminate, borne usually on different plants, sometimes on the same. The stami- nate
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. WILD CLEMATIS. The Clematis stem does not twine, it puts forth no tendrils; the leaf petioles do the work; they take a sort of sailor's knot about outlying branches and twigs, and in this way the stem rises little by little until, having reached the top, it spreads out its panicles of white stars to the sunlight and rejoices in its success. The flowers are of two kinds, pistillate and staminate, borne usually on different plants, sometimes on the same. The stami- nate flowers have white plumy stamens, those in the very centre pale-yellow, while the pistillate flowers have a bunch of carpels giving them a green centre. Frequently the pistil- late flowers have stamens as well, but these are often sterile, made of filaments onlyâno anthers. After fertilization the styles do not fall offâon the con- trary they begin to grow and become long, hairy tails to the seed-vessel beneath. Finally the plant covers itself with these plumy, silvery-white bunches, and becomes more noticeable even than when in flower. This long, trailing vine so adorned is the trophy of our autumn walks, and we bring it home with the pods of the milkweed and the autumn leaves. The species is worthy of cultivation as a fence cover and to give wildwood effects; it is not as good a porch plant as Clematis paniculata, and its flowers are not as fragrant as â Clematis fldmmula. Leather-Leaf Clematis, Clematis vidrna, is a climbing vine with pinnately compound leaves and curious thick, leathery flowers, reddish-purple. Its seeds bear the characteristic feathery styles and the stem climbs by its leaf-stalks after the family fashion. The plant is of Southern and South-western habitat and is cul- tivated rather as an object of interest than for any horticultural value. 171 Staminate Flowers of Clematis. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may h
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