Vor. II.] GRAPE FAMILY. 413 
3. PARTHENOCISSUS Planch. in DC. Mon. Phan. 5: Part 2, 447. 1887. 
[QuINARIA Raf. Am. Man. Grape-vines, 6. 1830. Not Lour. 1790. ] 
Climbing or trailing woody vines, the tendrils often tipped with adhering expansions 
(disks), or sometimes merely coiling, our species with digitately compound leaves, the leaf- 
lets 5-7. Flowers perfect, or polygamo-monoecious, in compound cymes or panicles. Petals 
5, spreading. Hypogynous disk obsolete or wanting in our species. Stamens 5. Ovary 2- 
celled; ovules 2in each cavity; style short, thick. Berry 1-4-seeded, the flesh thin, not edible. 
About ro species, natives of eastern North America and Asia. Besides the following, another 
occurs in Texas. 
1. Parthenocissus quinquefolia (L.) Planch. Virginia Creeper. False 
Grape. AmericanIvy. (Fig. 2410.) 
Fledera quinguefolia 1,. Sp. Pl. 202. 1753. 
Vitis quinquefolia Yam. Tabl. Encycl. 2: 135. 1793. 
Ampelopsis quinquefolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am, 1: 
160. 1803. 
Parthenocissus quinguefolia Planch. in DC. Mon. 
Phan. 5: Part 2, 448. 1887. 
High-climbing or trailing. Tendrils usually 
numerous, and provided with terminal adhering 
expansions, the vine sometimes supported also 
by aerial roots; leaves petioled, digitately 5-folio- 
late (rarely 7-foliolate); leaflets stalked, oval, el- 
liptic, or oblong-lanceolate; 2’-6’ long, acute or 
acuminate, narrowed at the base, coarsely 
toothed, at least above the middle, pale beneath, 
dark green above, glabrous or somewhat pubes- 
cent; panicles ample, erect or spreading in fruit; 
berries blue, about 6’ in diameter, usually 2-3- 
seeded; peduncles and pedicels red. 
In woods and thickets, Quebec to Manitoba, Flor- 
ida, Texasand Mexico. Alsoin Cuba. July. Fruit 
Tipe in October. The foliage turns deep red in 
autumn. Erroneously called Woodbine. 
Parthenocissus quinquefolia laciniata Planch. in DC. Mon. Phan. 5: Part 2, 449. ‘1887. 
Ampelopsis quinguefolia var. vitacea Knetr, Bot. Gaz. 18:71. 1893. 
Parthenocissus vitacea A. S. Hitchcock, Spring Fl. Manhattan, 26. 1894. 
Tendrils mostly without terminal adhering disks, the vine not high-climbing; leaves more deeply 
and sharply toothed; fruiting panicles described as drooping. Ohio to Iowa, Kansas and Colorado. 
Perhaps specifically distinct. 
Parthenocissus tricuspidata (Sieb. & Zucc.) Planch., the Ampelopsis Vettchii of the gardeners, 
a Japanese vine, clinging to walls by its very numerous disk-tipped tendrils, has the leaves sharply 
3-lobed or sometimes 3-divided; it is freely planted for ornament. 
Family 73. TILIACEAE Juss. Gen. 289. 1789. 
LINDEN FAMILY. 
Trees, shrubs or rarely herbs, with alternate (rarely opposite) simple leaves, 
mostly small and deciduous stipules, and axillary or terminal generally cymose 
or paniculate flowers. Sepals 5, rarely 3-4, valvate, deciduous. Petals of the 
same number, or fewer, or none, alternate with the sepals, mostly imbricated in 
the bud. Stamens , mostly 5~-10-adelphous; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 1, ses- 
sile, 2-10-celled; style entire or lobed; ovules anatropous. Fruit 1~-10-celled, 
drupaceous or baccate. Embryo straight, rarely curved; cotyledons ovate or 
orbicular; endosperm fleshy, rarely wanting. 
About 35 genera and 245 species, widely distributed in warm and tropical regions, a few in the 
temperate zones, F 
Ta ALAS Spy bl. 514. st7 56s 
Trees, with serrate cordate mainly inequilateral leaves, and axillary or terminal, cymose 
white or yellowish perfect flowers, the peduncles subtended by and partly adnate to broad 
membranous bracts. Sepals 5. Petals 5, spatulate, often with small scales at the base. 
Stamens ~; filaments cohering with the petal-scales or with each other in 5 sets. Ovary 
5-celled; cells 2-ovuled; style simple; stigma 5-toothed. Fruit dry, drupaceous, globose or 
ovoid, indehiscent, 1-2-seeded. Seeds ascending; endosperm hard; cotyledons broad, 5-lobed, 
corrugated. [The ancient Latin name. ] 
