1900] Kellerman — Ampelopsis Cordata 3 



The published statements as to the distribution of Ampelopsis 

 cordata are not uniform. Riddell, in his synoiDsis of the Western 

 Flora, says it occursJin the Alleghany Mountains west to Arkansas. 

 Torrey and Gray, in the Flora of North America, Vol. 1, under the 

 name of Vitis indivisa, give its distribution as Southern States west 

 to Louisiana and Arkansas. Wood using the same name in his 

 class-book, says Southern States to St. Louis. In Gray's Manual, 

 last edition, the plant is given under the name of Cissus ampelopsis 

 with the statement that it occurs in Virginia to Illinois and South- 

 ward. The occurrence as noted by Britton and Brown in the Illus- 

 trated Flora, makes the species still more decidedly southern, 

 namely, southern Virginia to Florida, west to Illinois, Kansas and 

 Texas. Prof. Stanley Coulter, in a Catalogue of the Flowering Plants 

 and Ferns indigenous to Indiana, published in 1899 in the 24th An- 

 nual Report of tlie Department of Geology and Natural Resources of 

 Indiana, says this species occurs " in the central and southern 

 counties of Indiana in swamps and moist woods." 



In the fifth edition of Gray's Manual the range of this Ampelop- 

 sis (under the name of Vitis indivisa) was given as "West Virginia, 

 Ohio and southward." In answer to an inquiry as to what in the 

 Gray Herbarium was perhaps the basis for the reference to the Ohio 

 -distribution, Mr. Merritt L. Fernald kindly wrote me as follows : — 

 " I find in the herbarium a specimen of Cissus ampelopsis marked 

 ^Ohio'. It is one of tlie old Torrey and Gray specimens and no fur- 

 ther data are given." 



Dr. Millspaugh lists this species as Cissus ampelopsis in the 

 Flora of West Virginia and adds on the authority of Mertz and 

 Guttenberg that it also occurs in Ohio, near Wheeling. Upon in- 

 quiry of Suiot. Mertz, I learn that liis notes of work upwards of 

 twenty years ago contain no mention of this species at Wheeling- 

 West Virginia, or at Bellaire, Ohio. He further informs me that 

 what was taken for this Ampelopsis at Bellaire was probably Vitis 

 cordifolia, three forms of which were found growing on the islands 

 of the Ohio River near Wheeling. Of these he adds in a letter to 

 the writer, •' I think we probably decided that one was V. indivisa; 

 but I feel sure that it was not and you are probably the first to find 

 it in Ohio." 



It will be observed that the distribution as noted by Professor 

 Stanley Coulter extends its range still further northward than my 

 Ohio station. It is likely that its occui'rence still further northward 

 in Ohio may be detected by assiduous collectors, 



I wish to say a word concerning the ornamental character of this 

 native vine. The foliage is bright green and very handsome. A 

 figure of a single leaf is shown in Plate 1, figure 2. This is reduced 

 from aphotograph taken with the leaf itself used as a negative. I have 

 never detected a fungous attack or insect depredation on the leaves. 



