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scoop-like. Stamens 5, each surrounded by 
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FaAwxiLY 2. VITACEAE — Grape FAMILY 
Vines, sometimes bushy or tree-like, usually with tendrils. 
alternate, or the lower ones opposite: blad zt e or compound. 
Flowers perfect, polygamous, or dioecious, in ped or elongate 
yx of 4 or 5 sepals, or obsolete. Corot of 4 or 5, often 
caducous, petals, or wanting. roecium of stamens np A the 
etals. Gynoecium of usually 2 anited ae Fruit a berry.—About 10 
genera and 500 species, widely distributed. 
Hypogynous disk present, either annular, cup-shaped, or glandular: leaf-blades sim- 
le or ternately compound. 
Petals cohering into a cap, caducous, never separating. 
Bark shreddy: pith interrupted by diaphragms at the 
nodes: tendrils forkin 
Leaves 
g. 1. VITIS. 
uos not QUE : pith continuous through the nodes: 
ndrils 2. MUSCADINIA. 
Petals ‘distinct, e ng. 
Floral envelo asd mostly in 4's: disk 4-lobed: plant- 
e fles 3. CISSUS. 
Floral denn Sn. in 95's: disk entire or nearly 
so: tissues not fles 4. AMPELOPSIS. 
Hypogynous disk wanting or boise leaf-blades digitately 
5-7-foliolate. . PARTHENOCISSUS. 
1. VITIS [Tourn.] L. Woody vines. Leaf-blades palmately lobed, angled 
or es toothed. 
Flowers in elongate racemes or panicles, green. alyx 
tals cohering. Berry juicy, mostly edible. Seed pyriform.—About 
0 species, wae distributed in warm and temperate regions.—Spr.—GRAPES. 
—Some species have been cultivated in many varieties from very ancient times, 
for the fruit. Some of our native species are represented in many hybrids which 
are grown commercially for their fruits. 
minute. 
Leaf- ae one and glabrous beneath at maturity, or merely cobwebby about the 
r in their axils. 
Leaf-blades Tobed.” toothed, or sometimes angled or shal- 
n. 
Es 1. V. rupestris. 
Elongate, trailing or climbing vine 
Shoots terete, glabrous or early becoming so: leaf- . 
blades usually lustrous abov 2. V. cordifolia. 
Shoots angled, pubescent throughout the year 
af-blades not lustrous on either side. 3. V. Baileyana. 
Leaf-blades prominently lobed. 
perm and SES of the leaf-blades acute: berries 
4. V. vulpina. 
