POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Clematis. 67S 
Langley, Herts, and Wrotham, Kent. Hudson. (Near Abbot’s Larig- 
ley. Mr. G. Anderson. Eng. FI. E.) P. May. 
A. apenni'na. Flower solitary: seeds pointed, without tails: leafits 
snipt: petals spear-shaped, numerous. 
Curt. — (E. Bot. 1062. E .)—Clus. i. 254. 2 —Bod. 434. 2. 
(In foliage resembling A. nemorosa, but rather more hairy. Petals bright 
blue; sometimes elliptical, twelve to sixteen. E.) 
Blue Mountain Anemone. Woods and shady places, rare. Wimble¬ 
don Wood. Mr. Rand. Near Harrow on the Hill. Mr. DuBois. Luton 
Hoe, Bedfordshire. Mr. Knowlton. Dill. Near Berkhamstead, Herts. 
Mr. Goodall. (These are, it must be acknowledged, somewhat suspicious 
stations. It is of very general occurrence in Italy, but not even found in 
Switzerland. E.) P. April.* 
CLEM'ATIS.f Cal. none: Petals four, rarely five or six, 
valvular, or revolute at the edges : Styles permanent: 
Seeds numerous, caudate : Receptacle capitate. 
C. vital'ba. Leaves winged: leafits heart-shaped: stem climbing. 
(E. Bot. 612. E.)— Curt. 2U—Jacq. Austr. 308 -Fuchs. 97 —Trag. 818— 
J. B. ii. 12-5. 1— Lonic. 1. 210. 1 —Pet. 40. 12 —Matth. 957 —Clus. i. 122. 
2— Dod. 404. 1— Lob. Obs. 345. 2, and Ic. i. 626. 1— Ger. Em. 886. 1— 
Ger. 739. I—Park. 383. 1— J. B. ii. 125. 2— Pet. 40. 11. 
Stem extending ten to twenty feet, striated, woody. Leaves opposite, on 
leaf-stalks; as are the leafits. The leaf-stalks twine about whatever 
they can lay hold of, and thus support the plant. Fruit-stalks branched, 
with triple divisions, woolly, from the bosom of the leaves. ( Panicles 
forked, downy, bearing numerous sweet-scented flowers. E.) Petals 
green on the outside, cream-coloured within, thick, reflexed, scored, 
woolly. Styles becoming very long, slender, crooked, and covered 
with fine silky hairs ; (forming elegant pensile tufts, which towards 
autumn repose on the hedges in profuse masses, enlivening the road¬ 
side after flowers have vanished. E.) 
Traveller’s Joy. Virgin’s Bower4 Hedges and shady places, espe¬ 
cially in calcareous soil, (thriving even amidst rocks and loose stones. E.) 
Common in the southern and western counties, but I have not observed 
it north of Worcestershire. (The elegant profusion with which it 
ascends lofty trees, and even rocks, on the southern shore of the Isle of 
Wight, must excite the admiration of every traveller. On the Ballast 
Hills at St. Anthony’s and Willington Quay, Northumberland. Winch 
* (This is at least as worthy of the florist’s attention as some other species. Its elegant 
blue flowers will prove ornamental to the shrubbery or wilderness. E.) 
t (From xkeyu, xh.r)fj.uTos, a vine twig, or tendril; from its climbing or clasping propen¬ 
sity. E.) 
X (Thus named by Gerard in 1597. “ Traueilers Joie , 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 climing : as also for the beautie of 
the flowers, and the pleasant scent or savour of the same : ” and, by country people. Old 
Man’s Beard, from the hoary appearance of the silky, elongated styles. The trivial name 
from Vitis alba } white vine. E.) 
