Ampelopsis. VITACE^. 431 



pale green, 3-parted or trifoliolate, very fleshy; the divisions or leaflets wedge-ovate and 

 mostly notched on the sides as well as on the top, and the middle one sometimes lobed : 

 inflorescence umbelliform : berry obovoid, blackish, with 1 or 2 seeds, the pedicel strongly 

 recurved. — Desmoul. in Duraud, Monogr. Vit. 59 ; Planch. 1. c. 535. C. incisa, var. Rocheann, 

 Carr. Rev, Hort. Ivi. 272, figs. C. Rocheana, Planch. Jour. Vigne Am. 1888, 102. Vitis 

 incisa, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 243 ; Chapm. Fl. 70. V. acida, Planch. 1. c, in part. — 

 Arkansas and Texas; also Florida, St. Vincent's Isl. and Hillsboro River, Curtiss, no. 458, 

 and probably southward. Leaves various. Not unlikely a geographical form of the last. 

 Root sometimes tuberous-thickened. 



* * Leaves not lobed. 



C. sicyoides, L., var. Ploridana, Planch. Climbing, with pilose striate branches : 

 leaves ovate-oblong and often acuminate, subcordate at the base, strongly nerved, pubes- 

 cent below (at least on the veins), the margin beset with small ascending mucrouate teeth: 

 inflorescence umbel-like and peduncled ; berry nearly globular, black, 1-seeded. — Planch, 

 in DC. Monogr. Phaner. v. 530. — S. Florida: Caloosahatchee River to Cape Sable, Curtiss, 

 no. 457*. A form in which the flowers are transformed (by the fungus Ustilayo Cissi) into 

 cigar-form bodies, the cluster becoming elongated, is Spond ylantha aphijlla, Presl. — Cape 

 Romano, Florida, Curtiss, and the West Indies. 



3. AMPEL6PSIS,^ Michx., iu part. ("A/attcXo?, the vine, ot/^is, likeness.) 

 — E. North American and Asiatic woody climbers, with short and branched ten- 

 drils, their tips often with disk-like dilatations which adhere to impinged surfaces. 

 tCymes not tendriliferous. Flowers greenish, sestival. Leaves various. — Fl. 

 i. 159, in part; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 245; Gray, Man. ed. 1-6, & Gen. 111. ii. 

 165, t. 162. Quinaria, Raf. Am. Man. Vines (1830), G, & Med. Bot. ii. 122. 

 Landuhia & Parthenocissus, Planch, in DC. Monogr. Phaner. v. 446, 447 

 (1887). 



A. tricuspidAta, Sieb. & Zucc. Fam. Nat. Fl. Jap. (Abh. Akad. Miinchen, iv.) i. 88 (the 

 A. Veitchii of gardens), — a Japanese species, remarkable for its three forms of leaves, two 

 of them simple, and the greater development of what answers to ovarian disk, — is in common 

 cultivation as Japanese Ivy, Japanese Creeper, or Boston Vine. It promptly covers walls, attach- 

 ing itself firmly by means of its very short disciferous tendrils. A. heterophtjlla, Blume {Lan- 

 dukia Landuk, Planch.) is a clear congener. 



A. quinquefolia, Michx. (Virginia Creeper, Woodbine erroneously.) Tall vine, 

 climbing by both disciferous tendrils and aerial rootlets, with warty and dark-colored canes : 

 leaves palmately 3-7-foliolate, but normally 5-foliolate, the leaflets ovate or obovate to oblong- 

 ovate, cuneate-obovate or even oblong-lanceolate, upon distinct petiolules, ranging from 

 coarsely serrate to dentate, notched or even incised -dentate, mostly acuminate, generally 

 glabrous or soon becoming so : cymes various but mostly broadly dichotomous, sometimes 

 elongated and leafy : berries globular, the size of peas, purple with a dark blue bloom, the 

 pulp thin and subacid. — Fl. i. 160; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 114 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 245 (and 

 var. hirsuta) ; Gray, Gen. Ill ii. t. 162. A. hederacea, DC. Prodr. i. 633 ; Loud. Arb. i. 482, 

 f. 146. A. hirsuta, Doun, Hort. Cantab, ed. 6, 62; DC. I.e. 6.33. Vitis hederacea, Ehrh. 

 Beitr. vi. 85. V. qninfjuefoUa, Lam. 111. ii. 135. Hedera quinquefolia, L. Spec. i. 202. Quinaria 

 hederacea, & Q. hirsuta, Raf. Med. Bot. ii. 122. CIssus hederacea, Pers. Syn. i. 143. Par- 

 thenocissus quinquefolia and vars. tijpica, hirsuta, & laciniata. Planch, in DC. Monogr. Phaner. 

 V. 449. — Rich woods and banks, Quebec to Winnipeg and the Rocky Mountains, and to 

 S. Florida, Texas, and New Mexico. (Cul)a.) 



Var. vitdcea, Knerr. Aerial roots none, and tendrils little or not at all disciferous 

 (the vine therefore not clinging well) ; the canes smootlier : cymes rather more dichoto- 

 mous and open : berries larger and earlier. — Bot. Gaz. xviii. 70. Parthenocissus vitacea, 

 Hitchcock, Spring Fl. Manhattan, 20 (1894). — Michigan to Kansas. 



1 Remarks under genus, and account of A. tricuspidata, by A. Gray. 



