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Belly-wind, Bethwine, Binder, Bindwith, Bullbind, 

 climber. Crocodile, Devil's Cut, Grey-beards, Hag- 

 rope, Honesty, Honey-stick, Lady's Bower, Lovebind, 

 Love-entangled, Maidenhair, Maiden^s Honesty, 

 Old Man, Old Man's Beard, Old Man's Woozard, 

 Robin Hood's Fetter, Silver Bush, Smoke Wood, 

 Snow-in-harvest^ Tom-bacca, Traveller's Joy, Hedge 

 Vine, White Vine, Wild Vine, Virgin's Bower, 

 Withwind or Withwine. 



The name Devil's Cut alludes to boys' practice of 

 smoking the dried stems. Another name is Devil's 

 Thread, given in days when many plants were 

 dedicated to the Evil One. The name Virgin's 

 Bower was bestowed upon the plant at a later time, 

 when many Christian epithets found their way into 

 plant nomenclature, this name being given by 

 Gerard " as fitting to be a bower for maidens, and 

 with allusion, perhaps, to Queen Elizabeth, but not, 

 as we might be tempted to imagine, to the Virgin 

 Mary, in a Riposo, or resting scene on the way to 

 Egypt, which is a frequent subject for pictures." 



Clematis Vitalba. — In the illustration (Fig. j) 

 the tendrils, which are the petioles, are seen clasping a 

 stem. The sepals are shown to he light-coloured, serving 

 in the place of petals, and within are the numerous 

 stamens, 



2. The Barberry Group. 



There are some eleven genera and about one 

 hundred and fifty species of the order Berberidaceae. 



