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TRAVELLER'S JOY, or COMMON VIR- 

 GIN'S BOWER. — CLEMATIS VITALBA. 



Natural order, Multisiliquce. Ranunculacece, 

 Juss. A genus of the Polyandria Polygyuia 

 class. 



— " and let us o'er the fields, 



Across the down, or through the shelving wood, 

 Wind our uncertain way. 



and let us read 



The living page, whose every character 



Delights, and gives us wisdom." Hurdis. 



" These, Nature's works, the curious mind employ, 

 Inspire a soothing melancholy joy." 



Rev. Mr. White. 



This native species of Clematis was first 

 named Traveller's Joy by Gerard, in the year 

 1597 ; and we know no person who had a 

 more just claim to give a name to a plant 

 than this author, who was so indefatigable in 

 discovering the history ; of our indigenous 

 plants, and naturalizing others to our soil. 

 English botanists have therefore preserved 

 the name, through respect to this father of 

 British herbalists. 



