Class V. Order I. 93 



99. VITIS. 



VITIS LABRUSCA. Common wild Grape Vine. 



Leaves heart shaped, somewhat three lobed, den- 

 tate, downy underneath. Willd, 



This vine is dioecious, a fact which Michaux affirms of all the 

 species observed by him in America.* The leaves are very 

 broad and white underneath. Flowers small, greenish, in pani- 

 cles made up of small umbels opposite to leaves, as are also the 

 tendrils. Fruit large, purple, and pleasantly flavoured. Found 

 in woods in low ground. June. 



VITIS HEDERACEA. Will(L. Common Creeper. 



Leaves quinate, ovate, acuminate, dentate. Willd. 



Sijn. HEDERA QUINQVEFQLIA. L. 



VITIS QUINQUEFOLIA. Lam. <$ Sm. 

 AMPELOPSIS QUINQUEFOLIA. Mich. 



The common creeper is much cultivated as an ornament of 

 walls. The stems climb to a great height, supported by radi- 

 cating tendrils. Leaves in fives, petioled, smooth. Flowers in 

 branched clusters ; petals green, not united at their summit. 

 Berries of the size of peas. Found growing wild in woods and 

 about fences. June. 



100. IMPATIENS. 



IMPATIENS NOLI TANGERE. Mich. /3. Touch me not. 



Flower stalks solitary, many flowered ; leaves 

 ovate ; joints of the stem swelling. L. 



Syn. IMPATIENS MACULATA. MuhL 

 IMPATIENS FVLVA. Nuttall. ? 



Found about brooks and in moist shades, flowering from June 

 to September. The flowers are of a tawny yellow, spotted on 

 the inside, and resembling small cups or pitchers, hanging on 

 slender footstalks. Nectary horn shaped ; petals spreading, the 

 two lower ones large. The capsule, when ripe, bursts and 

 scatters its seeds by an clastic power like the common balsamine 

 of the gardens, another of the genus. Height of the plant about 



* Excepting those placed i.n his genus Ampdopsis. 



