60 BOTANY OP LA SALLE COUNTY. 



pleasant smell. Does not stand our climate 

 well. Planted for shade. 



Order 28 VITA CEAE. GRAPES. 

 VITIS. Grape. Plants climbing- by woody tendrils. 



V. aestiva lis. Summer Grape. Leaves wooly and 

 rusty when young-, entire or 3 to 5 lobed, berries 

 black with a bloom. M. Ju., ripe Sept. 



V. cordi folia. Frost Grape, leaves entire or 

 slightly 3 lobed, cordate with a deep acute 

 sinus, accuminate coarsely and sharply toothed, 

 berries small, black, ripening- after frosts. 

 AMPELOPSIS. Virg-inia Creeper. Five Fing-er. 



A. quinque folia. A woody vine climbing- tall trees 

 by both rootlets and tendrils, leaves 3 to 7, g-en- 

 erally 5 lobed, flowers G. Y. Berries Bl. Leaves 

 become crimson in autumn. This plant is not 

 poisonous and is often planted to run over 

 houses and walls, for which it is well adapted. 



Order 29. SAPINDACEAE. Maples. Soapberries. 

 AES CULUS. Horse chestnut. Buckeye. Trees. 



fib. g-labra. Leaves dig-itate of 5 oblong-, acumi- 

 nate, serrate, leaflets; flowers Y. W., not showy, 

 fruit a larg-e, 1 in. dia. nut-like, nearly smooth 

 pod containing- 1 to 4 smooth, brown seeds. Val. 

 Big- Vermillion, near Og-lesby and W. 

 A CKR. Maple. Trees or shrubs with larg-e pal- 

 mately lobed leaves, small flowers and wingfed 

 seeds. 



A. saccharinum. Sugar Maple. Hard Maple. 



Flowers greenish yellow appearing- with the 

 leaves; branches making- a nearly rig-ht ang-le 

 with trunks. Ap. M. 70 to 80 ft. Wood hard 

 and handsomely grained. 



A. dasycar pum. Leaves silverv W. below. Flow- 

 ers G. W. 



A. rubrum. Red Swamp or Soft Maple. Flowers 



