224 CLIMBERS 



l~l Twigs round, with prominent lenticels: 

 periderm of the supple and pendent 

 branches reddish-grey, fissured and corky. 

 Leaves compound, digitate. 



Ampelopsis hederacea, Michx. Virginian Creeper (Fig. 

 50). The plant may reach the roof of a tall house, 30 feet 

 being by no means an uncommon height. The tendrils may 

 expand at the tips and form sucker-like discs gluing them to 

 bricks, bark, &c. Flowers small in dense clusters, drooping 

 in fruit, which rarely ripens in England. Twigs round, 

 finely striate and cracked: periderm superficial, olive- 

 tawny. The brilliant autumn foliage very striking. 



OO Twigs striated and grooved, smooth, 

 yellow-brown, stiff and zig-zagged: the 

 deep periderm of older branches bursting 

 the cortex in torn and twisted fibres. 

 Berries (grapes') purple or yellowish. 



Vitis vinifera, L. Vine (Fig. 49). The Vine may climb 

 up to 20 30 feet, but is rarely seen unpruned. About 

 every third leaf is without an opposed tendril : the latter 

 twisting only. The ragged fibrous bark is greyish. 



tt No tendrils : the plant merely flings its 

 shoots over the support, or scrambles over 

 or through it. 



[For (0 G ) Scrambling by the aid of recurved prickles, 



see p. 225.] flattened at the sides and broad at the base, 



like claws, which act as hooks preventing 

 the shoots from slipping back. Leaves 

 compound. Flowers rosaceous, in panicles 

 or corymbs. 



l~~l Branches angular, arching, green, or pur- 

 plish. Leaves falsely ternate or digitate. 

 Flowers in corymbose panicles. Fruit a 

 collection of drupels. 



Rubus fruticosus, L. Blackberry. The Brambles may 



