VITACEAE. 



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1. Cissus sicyoides L. WEST 

 INDIAN Cissus. (Fig. 252.) A 

 pubescent high-climbing vine, with 

 striate branches. Leaves fleshy, 

 simple, ovate or oblong-ovate, 1'- 

 4' long, acute or acuminate, dis- 

 tantly serrate with bristle-tipped 

 teeth, truncate or cordate at the 

 base; petioles A'-1J'' long; flower- 

 clusters umbel-like, peduncled ; ber- 

 ries subglobose, about 5" in diam- 

 eter, black; seeds solitary, 2"-2i" 

 long, acute at the base. 



Paget Marsh, 1905; Par-la-Ville, 

 Hamilton, 1912. Native. Florida, 

 West Indies and tropical continen- 

 tal America. Flowers in summer and 

 autumn. Its seeds presumably 

 brought to Bermuda by a bird. 



Cissus discolor Bl., MOTTLED 

 Cissus, Asiatic, an interesting and 

 beautiful climber with ovate mot- 

 tled leaves, is occasional in gardens. 



2. PAKTHENOCISSUS Planch. 



Woody vines, the tendrils often tipped with adhering expansions (disks), 

 or sometimes merely coiling, our species with digitately compound leaves. 

 Flowers perfect, or polygamo-monoecious, in compound cymes or panicles. 

 Petals 5, spreading. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 2 in each cavity; 

 style short, thick. Berry 1-4-seeded, the flesh thin, not edible. About 10 

 species, natives of North America and Asia, the following typical. 



1. Parthenocissus quinquefo- 



lia(L.) Planch. VIRGINIA CREEPER. 

 AMERICAN IVY. (Fig. 253.) Ten- 

 drils usually numerous, and pro- 

 vided with terminal adhering ex- 

 pansion?, the vine sometimes sup- 

 ported also by aerial roots ; leaflets 

 oval, elliptic, or oblong-lanceolate, 

 2'-6' long, narrowed at the base, 

 coarsely toothed, at least above 

 the middle, glabrous or somewhat 

 pubescent ; panicles ample, erect 

 or spreading in fruit ; berries blue, 

 about 5" in diameter ; peduncles 

 and pedicels red. [Hedera quin- 

 <l itc folia L. ; Ampelopsis quinque- 

 folia Michx.] 



Rocky thickets between Castle 

 Harbor and Harrington Sound, and 

 locally elsewhere on walls and fences. 

 Now nowhere abundant in Bermuda, 

 because much collected under the 

 name SARSAPARILLA. Native. East- 

 ern North America, Bahamas and 

 Cuba. Lefroy's record of Ampelopsis 

 tridentata, copied by H. B. Small, is 

 obscure, as there appears to be no 

 species published under that name. 



