VITACE. (VINE FAMILY.) a 
. 4 V. indivisa, Willd. Leaves simple, undivided, ovate, truncate, or cor- 
date at the base, acuminate, toothed-serrate, pubescent ; peduncles forking ; petals 
and stamens 5; style slender; disk cup-shaped; berry 1 —3-seeded. — Banks of 
rivers, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. June. — Stem climbing high. 
Berry small, black. 
$ 2. Viris. — Flowers polygamous: petals 5, cohering at the top, free at the base: 
stamens 5 ; style short; disk thick, 5-lobed : leaves simple, cordate, entire or variously 
lobed. 
* Leaves and branches woolly. 
5. V. Labrusea, L. (Fox-Gmarr.) Leaves broadly cordate, angularly 
3-5-lobed, mucronate-serrate, very woolly when young, at length smoothish 
above; fertile panicles or racemes few-flowered; berry large.— River-swamps, 
Mississippi to North Carolina, and northward. May and June. — Leaves 4! - 6' 
wide. Berry J' in diameter, purple or whitish, pleasant-flavored. 
6. V. Caribsa, DC. Leaves round-cordate, with a broad and shallow 
sinus, entire or 3-lobed, wavy-serrate, acute or acuminate, soon smooth above, 
the lower surface, like the branches, petioles, and panieles, clothed with soft ash- 
colored down; panicles equalling or longer than the leaves; pedicels smooth. 
(V. coriacea, Shuttl.? a form with smaller and more rigid leaves.) — South 
Florida. Berry } in diameter. 
7. V. sestivalis, Michx. (Summer GRAPE.) Leaves broadly crdate, 
entire or 3- 5-lobed, or on young plants pinnatifid, mucronate-serrate, covered 
with a loose cobwebby down, at length smooth or nearly so on both sides ; pani- 
cles long, many-flowered; berry small.— Rich woods, Florida to Mississippi, 
and northward. June. — Stem climbing high. Leaves 4'-7' wide. Panicle 
6'-12/ long, compound. Berry deep blue, very austere. 
* * Leaves and branches smoothish. 
8. V. cordifolia, Michx. (Frost GRAPE.) Leaves thin, broadly cor- 
date, entire or slightly 3-lobed, mucronate-serrate; pubescence, when present, 
soon vanishing; panicles compound, many-flowered; berry small. — River- 
swantps, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. May and June. — Leaves 3! - 6! 
wide. Berry almost black, very acid. — A form with broader — and 
toothed leaves is V. riparia, Michx. E 
9. V. vulpina, L. (Muscaprxe. Burracr.) Leaves broedti MN; 
toothed-serrate, smooth and glossy on both sides, or rarely, like the branches, 
pubescent, the sinus at the base broad and rounded, or narrow and acute; panicle 
small; berry large. (V. rotundifolia, Mich.) — Banks of rivers, Florida to 
North Carolina, and westward. June. — Stem climbing high, with pale and 
smooth bark. Leaves 2-3! wide. Berry }/-4/ in diameter, purple, pleasant- 
favored. — A form with smaller leaves and berries, M vy nni (us 
sometimes called the ô Mostaro Sei sont 
