ORD. VII. HEDERACEA. 
From Hedera Ivy.—Ivy-like Plants. 
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VITIS VINIFERA. COMMON VINE. 
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SYNONYMA. Vitis. Pharm. Lond. Vitis vinifera. Bauh. 
Pin. p. 299. J. Bauh. Hist. iii. p. 67. Gerard. Emac. p. 875. 
' Park, Theat. p. 1555. Raii Hist. 1613. Kniph. Bot. orig. cent. 6. 
Duhamel. Arb. ii. p. 360. t.106. Schmidel. Ic. plant. t, vii. 
&. Vitis corinthiaca s. apyrena. Bauh. Hist. ii. p. 72. 
Glass Pentandria. Ord, Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 284. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Petala apice coherentia, emarcida. Bacca 5-sperma, 
supera, ; 
-Sp. Ch. V. foliis lobatis sinuatis nudis, 
THE Vine sends off numerous long slender climbing branches, 
and is covered with rough dark brown bark: the leaves are roundish 
deeply serrated, commonly divided into three lobes, and stand alter- 
nately upon long footstalks: the flowers are small, and produced in 
spikes: the calyx is divided into five small narrow segments: the 
petals are five, small, oblong, whitish, withered, adherent at their 
apices, and soon fall off: the five filaments are tapering, and fur- 
nished with simple anthere: the germen is egg-shaped, without any 
style, hut supplied with a cylindrical stigma: the fruit is a large 
round berty, of one cell, and contains five hard seeds, of an irregular 
form. The flowers appear in June and July. 
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