DESCRIPTION OF FOREIGN VINES 



I. Ampelopsis. " Boston Ivy." (A. veitchii.) 

 Leaf: simple or pinnate, alternate ; leaflets, 3 or 5, i'-4', 

 coarse-serrate, glossy, ovate-long- pointed or elliptical, smooth ; 

 sometimes, especially in young plants only simple, ivy-lobed. 

 Flower: inconspicuous (petals 4-5, soon falling, stamens 4-5), 

 clustered ; a delicate climber ; deciduous ; climbing by rootlets 

 with sucker-like disks ; var. /rzV^/<7r has variegated foliage. (PI. I.) 



2. Irish or Scotch Ivy. (Hedera hibernica.) 

 Leaf: 2-3', simple, alternate, 3-5-lobed (sometimes entire), 

 evergreen, glossy. Flower : p. greenish-yellow (petals, stamens 

 and styles 5 or 10), clustered ; berries black ; not essentially dif- 

 ferent from common ivy, of which it is perhaps only a variety % 

 climbing by rootlets. (PI. I.) 



3. Schizophragma hydrangeoides. 



Leaf : 2-4', simple, opposite, serrate, ovate-cordate to rouna- 

 ish, long-pointed, glossy, long-stemmed. Flower : p. white or 

 flesh-colored (petals 5), in terminal cymes 6' across, fall ; vigor- 

 ous, climbing by rootlets. Japan. (PI. I.) 



4. Great-flowered Trumpet-flower. (Tecoma grandiflora.) 

 Leaf: pinnate, opposite; leaflets, 5-11, 2-3', serrate, lance- 

 shaped, narrower than in native species radicans. Flower : 

 scarlet and orange-yellow, 3' broad and long (corolla wide-bell- 

 shaped, 5-lobed) ; climbing less than radicans, by rootlets. 

 Japan. 



5. Spindle-tree. (Euonymus radicans.) 

 Leaf: i>^', simple, opposite, serrate, roundish or oval, rather 

 leathery, evergreen. Flower : greenish, small (petals and sta- 

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