3 o6 PLANTS GROWING IN WASTE SOIL. 



fairly bristles with interest to seek it out and pause under its 

 powers of enchantment. And in proportion to the keenness 

 with which it is sought, will the disappointment be great in 

 recognising it ; for few flowers possess so little charm. It is 

 persistent, too, and thrusts itself upon the attention of the 

 passer-by whenever it finds the space to do so along the shady 

 roadside. 



TRAVELLER'S JOY. VIRGIN'S BOWER. (Plate CLVII.) 

 Clematis Vzrgmidna. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Crowfoot. White. Slightly fragrant. Neiv England south- Jztly, August. 



ward and westward. 



Flowers: imperfect ; clustered loosely in panicles. Calyx : of four oblong, 

 petal-like sepals. Corolla: none. Stamens and pistils : indefinite in number. 

 fruit: a cluster of feathery tailed achenes. Leaves /opposite ; thrice divided; 

 toothed. Stem : climbing. 



" The favoured flower 

 That bears the name of Virgin's bower." 



SIR WALTER SCOTT. 



In Gerarde, we read that " Traviler's joie is this same plant 

 termed as decking and adorning waies and hedges where people 

 travell ; Virgin's bower, by reason of the goodly shadowe which 

 they make with their thick bushing and climbing, as also for the 

 beautie of the floweres, and the pleasant scent and savour of 

 the same ; and by country folks, old man's beard, from the 

 hoary appearance of the seeds, which remain long on the 

 hedges." 



Little country boys also call the plant, Tom-bacca and smok 

 ing tree, which names are sufficiently suggestive for us to im- 

 agine the reason of their delight in the lovely climber. 



MUSK HALLOW. (Plate CL VIII) 

 Malvci moschata. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Mallow. White^ or -magenta. Herbage, musk scented. General July-September. 



Flowers: clustered on short peduncles. Calyx: of five ovate sepals. Co- 

 rolla : one and a half inches broad ; of five malvaceous petals. Stamens : very 

 numerous, growing out from all sides of a column wrapped about the style. 



