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Erect Clematis.  Silky Clematis.
Clematis Addisònii, Addison's Brown clematis, a leafy, perennial herb bears terminal and axillary, nodding flowers with a purplish calyx.  Its stem is erect or ascending, from one to three feet high, reddish brown and covered with a bloom.  The lower leaves vary from ovate to lanceolate and clasp the stem with rounded bases.  On their edges they are somewhat wavy.  The upper leaves which are pinnately-divided terminate in a tendril.  From Georgia to Virginia, in rich soil, especially along river banks, the plant prefers to grow.

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Erect Clematis.  Silky Clematis.
Clématis ochroleùca.
Family Crowfoot.  Colour Yellowish green.  Odour Scentless.  Range Georgia to Staten Island.  Time of Bloom May, June.
Flowers: terminal; solitary; nodding.  Calyx: cylindric, the sepals with recurved tips and very silky on the outside; thick.  Achenes: growing in erect heads, purplish, with long, brownish yellow tails.  Leaves: large; simple; oval, or ovate, sessile or with very short densely pubescent petioles; entire; bright green and glabrous above; very silky underneath.  Stem: erect; one to two feet high; reddish and covered with a silky fuzz.
This attractive plant which through its range is rather rare and local has been chosen for description as representing the group of clematises which grow in an upright, or ascending way; a habit which might often puzzle one not well acquainted with the diverse forms of the genus. When it rears, in fruiting time, its heads of achenes it is noticeable that their feathery tails are darker than those with which we are more familiar.

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Clematis reticuláta, another climber with solitary and nodding flowers belongs exclusively to the south. Its dull purplish sepals are lanceolate and quite woolly on their inner margins. The pinnate leaves bear oval, or ovate leaflets, entire and thick, although among them those are seen which are lobed. The very blonde tails of the achenes are of great length and extremely pretty.

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Clematis crispa, marsh clematis, one of the most beautiful of the genus is a climber which also bears solitary and nodding flowers. They are fragrant, with a silvery sheen and look something as though they had been enameled with blue. About their margins the sepals are crisped like some tissue paper, while inside they are lined with a dense, velvety tomentum. Until frost almost they continue to bloom. The leaves are pinnate and bear mostly trifoliate, lanceolate leaflets which are for the most part entire, although occasionally they become lobed. Although feathery, the long persistent styles are quite without the fleecy, curved appearance of those of the already mentioned species. In marshes and river swamps the plant grows best, and in the locality between Texas and North Carolina.

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Leather-Flower. (Plate LVII.) Clématis Viorna. Family Crowfoot. Colour Reddish purple. Odour Scentless. Range Tennessee, Georgia and West Virginia to Pennsylvania and westward.  Time of Bloom May-July.   
Flowers: solitary; nodding. Calyx: campanulate with five, large, ovate sepals, thick and woolly inside and tapering into a recurved point; leathery. Corolla: none. Achenes: broadly ovoid; flat, with long feathery, pale yellow tails. Leaves: opposite; mostly pinnate. Leaflets: entire, lobed or trifoliate pointed at their apices, glabrous. A vine climbing often ten or twelve feet high by means of the tendril bearing leaves.
Running vigorously up and down rail fences, meandering by the borders of streams, intermingling itself with shrubbery and even ascending small trees, this beautiful climber first weaves in and out its bell-like flowers, and then spreads to the breeze rounded balls of achenes with pale yellow and fleecy tails. Much of the beauty of the genus, indeed, lies in this clever device by which their tiny seeds may be borne, as kites with long well-balanced tails, to distances far from the parent plant, and thus every year increase their holdings of the soil.

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Virginia Virgin's Bower.  Traveller's Joy.
Clématis Virginiàna.
Family Crowfoot.  Colour White.  Odour Slightly fragrant.  Range Georgia northward and westward.  Time of Bloom July, August.
Flowers: numerous; imperfect; growing loosely in leafy panicles.  Calyx: with four oblong, petal-like sepals.  Corolla: none. Stamens and pistils: very numerous.  Filaments: glabrous.  Fruit: a cluster of achenes with long, persistent feathery styles. Leaves: trifoliolate, the leaflets broadly ovate and deeply toothed and lobed. A climbing vine.
Often it is that the commonest plants are far more beautifu! than the rarities which we seek and favourably look upon simply because they are rare.  From beginning to end the existence of the virgin's bower is replete with charm.  Not only in remote haunts, but everywhere we see it running along rail fences, or covering low stone walls and shrubbery with masses of creamy tinted flowers, exhaling in great waves their faint fragrance, or tossing about the fantastic tails of its seeds.  For centuries the people have known the vine.  It has been loudly lauded and much written about.  It is the generous, luxurious child of the family.  In England, however, without discrimination, the various species are popularly called, virgin's bower.
What some writers regard as a form of this species and which is known as C. Virginiana Catesbyana, is distinguished by its pubescent leaves.