92 VITACEAE (VINE FAMILY) 



A. Negundo, Box ELDER. A low tree with light green twigs; 

 leaves pinnate with 3 to 9 veiny, ovate, pointed, toothed leaflets; 

 flowers greenish, in drooping clusters, earlier than the leaves; petals 

 none; fruit smooth. River banks. April. 



SAPINDACEAE (SOAPBERRY FAMILY) 



Trees or shrubs with alternate or opposite compound leaves. 

 Flowers unsymmetrical. Stamens more numerous than the sepals. 



AESCULUS 



Leaves opposite, palmately compound. Leaflets serrate and 

 straight-veined. Flowers in a terminal close cluster. Petals 4 

 or 5, more or less unequal. Stamens 6 to 8. Ovary 3-celled. 

 Style i. Fruit a leathery, 3-celled and 3-seeded pod. 



A. glabra, BUCKEYE. A large tree; leaflets usually 5; stamens 

 curved, longer than the corolla; petals 4, upright; fruit covered with 

 prickles when young. River banks. June. 



VITACEAE (VINE FAMILY) 



Shrubs usually climbing by tendrils, with alternate, palmate 

 leaves. Tendrils and floiver clusters opposite the leaves. Stamens 

 as many as the petals, and opposite them. Berry 2-celled, usually 

 ^-seeded. 



VITIS 



Climbing by the coiling and naked tendrils. Flowers in a large 

 cluster, fragrant. Simple leaves, rounded and heart-shaped. 

 Berry pulpy. 



V. labrusca, NORTHERN Fox GRAPE. Branchlets and young leaves 

 very woolly; leaves entire or deeply lobed, dentate, continuing rusty- 

 woolly beneath ; berries large, dark purple or amber color. In cultiva- 

 tion this group has given rise to the concord, catawba, and other 

 varieties. Thickets. 



V. aestivalis, SUMMER GRAPE, Branchlets pubescent; leaves un- 



