TRAVELLERS JOY 



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Clematis vitalba, L. Traveller's Joy, Old Man's Beard 

 (Fig. 100). Lax shrub, climbing by means of the tendril- 

 like stalks of the opposite pinnate leaves. 



Fig. 100. Traveller's Joy, Clematis vitalba, p. 277 (Sch). 



Flowers in lax, terminal, repeatedly trifurcate cymose 

 panicles. Entomophilous, proterogynous, pollen-flowers. 

 Perianth-segments (sepals) 4, greenish white, oblong, 



