106 traveller's joy. 



country boys smoke portions of them in imita- 

 tion of tobacco pipes. 



The Clematis is sometimes called Virgin's 

 Bower, and Withywind, and Gerarde gave to 

 it the well-merited name of Traveller's Joy. 

 Nor is ours the only land whose waysides it 

 enlivens. Backhouse saw the lofty shrubs of 

 Table Cape, in Van Diemen's Land, overrun 

 with a white Clematis, which if not identical 

 with this, much resembled it, and was equally 

 fitted to sfratifv the taste of the flower-lovinsr 

 wayfarer. Burchell, too, when on the shores 

 of the Gariep River, could with difficulty dis- 

 entangle himself from a very similar species, 

 which climbed to the very summit of the trees, 

 and covered them with its flowers and foliage. 

 He remarks, "The English Traveller's Joy, 

 in Europe, chiefly indicates a chalky substratum, 

 and it is remarkable that this African plant, 

 which much resembles it in habit and general 

 appearance, is also an indication of a calca- 

 reous quality in the soil." 



