130 FLOWERS OF THE ROADSIDES AND HEDGES 
lime-loving plant, but will grow when transplanted on a more rocky 
soil derived from granite or sand soil. 
Traveller's Joy is infested by one of the cluster-cup fungi, Aczdium 
clematidis. Lemophleus clematidis, a beetle, and the moths Small 
Waved Umber, Czdaria vitalbata, and Double-striped Pug, Eupzthecra 
Pumilata, are insects which feed on it. 
The name C/emafis was derived from clema, a sort of vine, and 
Vitalba, by Dodoneus, from vztzs, vine, aba, white. Originally the 
name was Viorna, adorning the ways. Gerarde in 1597 gave the 
name Traveller's Joy.'| The common English names are Bedwine, 
Beggar-brushes, Bethwine, Bindwith, Climber, Crocodile, Grey-beards, 
Hag-rope, Honesty, Honey-stick, Lady’s Bower, Love-bind, Old 
Man’s Beard, Old Man’s Woozard, Robin Hood’s Fetter, Smoke- 
wood, &c. Boys smoke pieces of the stem, hence the last name, and 
the name Tom-bacca. Used for binding like withies it was called 
Bindwith, &c. The name Hag-rope means hedge-rope. It was called 
Devil's Thread in allusion to its supposed association with the Evil 
One. In pre-scientific days Pliny the naturalist tells us it was used 
for cleansing leprous sores, because of its caustic nature. It was used 
for blistering, and the young shoots were pickled for vinegar. Baskets 
are made from the plant in some districts. It is much used in gardens 
for forming arbours, and as a climbing plant in gardens. 
EssENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS :— 
1. Clemates Vitalba, L.—Sepals valvate in the bud, carpels awned, 
achenes with feathery persistent styles, leaves opposite, stem climbing 
and woody, with tendrils. 
Barberry (Berberis vulgaris, L.) 
Our knowledge of this plant begins with recent times. It is an 
occupant of the Warm Temperate Zone, occurring in Europe, temperate 
Asia, N. Africa, and has been introduced into the United States. It 
is absent from S. Somerset, S. Hants, Hunts, occurring only in Gla- 
morgan in S. Wales, Denbigh, Carnarvon, and Flint in N. Wales, 
S. Lanes in the Trent province; but it does not occur in Mid Lanes or 
the Isle of Man, though present throughout the W. Lowlands, except 
Wigtown, and Haddington in the E. Lowlands; in Elgin and Easter- 
ness only in the E. Highlands. Elsewhere it is found in Westerness, 
Clyde Isles, and Cantire in the W. Highlands, from Caithness south- 
wards. It is naturalized in Scotland. It occurs in Ireland. 
? On account possibly ot its prevalence along the highways and in hedges. 
