226 MALVACEAE. 



Family 6L VITACEAE. Grape Family. 



Climbing or erect shrubs, with nodose joiats, alternate 

 petioled leaves, and small flowers in panicles, racemes or 

 cymes. Calyx entire or 4-5-toothed. Petals 4-5, separ- 

 ate or coherent, valvate. Stamens 4-5, opposite the 

 petals; filaments subulate, inserted at the base of the 

 disk or between its lobes. Disk sometimes obsolete or 

 wanting; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 1, generally immersed 

 in the disk, 2-6-celled; ovules 1-2 in each cell, ascending, 

 anatropous. Fruit a 1-6-celled, commonly 2-celled, 

 berry. Testa bony; endosperm cartilaginous; embryo 



short. 



L VITIS L. Wild Grape. 



Climbing or trailing woody vines, mostly with tendrils. 

 Leaves simple, usually palmately lobed or dentate. Stip- 

 ules generally small, caducous. Flowers mostly dioe- 

 cious, or polygamo-dioecious, rarely perfect. Petals 

 hypogynous or perigynous, coherent in a cap and decid- 

 uous without expanding. Ovary 2-celled,^ rarely 3-4- 

 celled; style very short, conic; ovules 2 in each cell. 

 Berry globose or ovoid, pulpy. 



L V- girdiana Munson. Strong climbing vine with thick 

 diaphragms; leaves 15 cm. broad or less, broadly cordate-ovate, 

 with a rather deep and narrow sinus, obscurely 3-lobed, and with 

 many small and acute teeth, closely ashy tomentose beneath; flower 

 clusters large, very compound; berries small, black, slightly glaucous; 

 seeds pyriform. 



Occasional along streams in the foothills. June. 



Family 62. MALVACEAE. Mallow Family. 



Herbs or shrubs with alternate mostly palmately 

 veined leaves. Stipules small, deciduous. Flowers regu- 

 lar, perfect, or rarely dioecious or polygamous. Calyx 

 often brae ted at the base. Sepals 5, rarely 3 or 4, more 

 or less united, usually valvate. Petals 5, hypogynous, 

 convolute. Stamens many, hypogynous, monadelphous, 

 forming a central column around the pistil, united with 

 the bases of the petals; anthers 1-celled. Ovary several- 



