CLEM ATIS TRITERNA'TA. 
TRITERNATE VIRGIN’S ROWER. 
Class. Order. 
POLYANDUIA. POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
HANUNCULACEyE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration, 
Introduced 
Uncertain. 
12 feet. 
June. 
Perennial. 
in 1800. 
No. 821. 
The derivation of the name, Clematis, has been 
previously mentioned. The English appellation. 
Virgin’s Bower was, doubtless, given in allusion to 
the use made of the shrub; whilst that of Travel- 
ler’s Joy, which is more immediately applied to 
our English plant — the Clematis vitalba, Gerard 
himself confesses to have first adopted. He says, 
“ It is called commonly Viorna quasi vias ornans, 
of decking and adorning ways and hedges, where 
people travel, and thereupon I have named it the 
Traveller’s Joy. 
Climbing and twining plants are always accept- 
able in the ornamental garden, inasmuch as, by 
proper management, they may be advantageously 
employed for ornamenting beds, creeping over rock 
work, and covering walls, pales, or trellis-work. 
Also, by training them to vase, or umbrella-shaped, 
frames, in the parterre, the centres of mounds, or on 
turf; or, even by simply tying them to stakes, with 
or without cross pieces, they may be rendered gay 
and pleasing. 
Clematis triternata is most easily increased by 
layers of the young wood, and prefers a light soil. 
206. Don’s Syst. Bot. 1 , 6. 
