ARBORETUM NOTES. 51 
KAN UN CULAGEZ. 
CLEMATIS VITALBA: 
Loudon, v. 1,:235, 
Wild about Barton, in hedges and copses, not Clematis 
unfrequently ; more plentiful in the more wooded "eae 
Soumtty to the South of Bury. In the belt -of 
plantation at the back (north side) of our arboretum 
it has grown so luxuriantly as to reach to the tops 
of some flourishing young fir trees, and half cover 
them, displaying its flowers and seeds in autumn 
among their topmost branches; in a very few 
years, I daresay, it will entirely conceal them. 
The most luxuriant growth of this plant that | 
have ever seen, is in the beautiful woods along the 
Undercliff of the Isle of Wight, near Steephill and 
Ventnor; the way in which it mantled the tall 
trees from top to bottom, and covered the thickets 
far and wide with its matted webb of stems and 
branches, reminded me of tropical climbers. 
In England, the Traveller’s Joy is found usually 
on calcareous soils, either chalk or limestone; but 
not exclusively, for I have seen it in plenty in 
hedges on the red marl (triassic) of the Worcester- 
shire plain, between Tewkesbury and the foot of 
the Malvern Hills. 
The structure of the stem is curious: it is 
probably the same (essentially) in the whole genus 
Clematis, but is most striking in this species, 
which has the largest and most woody stems. The 
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