
306 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 CLVIT) 
Clematis Virgiénzana. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Crow/oot. White. Slightly fragrant. New England south- July, August. 
; ward and westward. 
Flowers: imperfect ; clustered loosely in panicles. Calyx: of four oblong, 
petal-like sepals. Corolla: none. Stamens and fistils : indefinite in number. 
fruit: acluster of feathery tailed achenes. Leaves : opposite ; thrice divided; 
toothed. Stem: climbing. 
“The favoured flower 
That bears the name of Virgin’s bower.” 
—SrIR 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 MALLOW. (Llate CL VIII) 
Malva 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. 

