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pelopsis). 
name Ampelopsis. 
VITACEAE. 
AMPELOPSIS. 
(Family Vitaceae). 
Rather soft-wooded climbers, 
sometimes with tendrils only on 
the upper branches, these opposite 
the leaf-scars when present and 
not thickened at tip: foliage de- 
ciduous. Stems angled or nearly 
terete, moderate: pith moderate, 
white, without firmer diaphragms 
even at the nodes, soon dividing 
into thin plates by transverse 
fissures beginning at the peri- 
phery. Buds subglobose, solitary 
though collaterally branched in 
development, sessile, with 2 or 3 
scales. Leaf-scars alternate, 2- 
ranked, rounded: bundle-traces 
about a dozen in an ellipse, rather 
small and _ indistinct:  stipule- 
sears long and narrow. (Cissus). 
Winter-character references: — 
Ampelopsis cordata (Cissus Am- 
Hitchcock (3), 10, (4), 135, f. 21. 
A long time will be required to get uniform usage of the 
Popularly it is applied almost universally 
to the Virginia creeper and Boston ivy, now called variously 
Parthenocissus or Psedera by botanists. 
1. Bushy and usually without tendrils. (1). A. cordata. 
Climbing. 
2. Stems subterete: tendrils rather few. 
Stems angular. 
(Pepper vine). A. arborea. 
(Turquoise berry). (2). A. heterophylla. 
