NO. s] Vine ( Vitacece). 17 



Leaves, simple in the genus Vitis (Grape), compound in 

 the genus Ampelopsis (Virginia Creeper) ; alternate, 

 the lower ones often opposite ; edge various. 



Fruit, one- or two-celled, usually four-seeded. Seeds, 

 bony. A berry. 



Woody vines, with watery juice and swollen joints ; 

 climbing by tendrils ; the foliage and young shoots acid. 



GUIDE TO GENERA. 

 Leaves simple (i) Vitis (Grape). 

 Leaves compound (2) Ampelopsis (Virginia Creeper). 



(i) Genus VITIS, Tourn. (Grape.) 



Flowers, in compound clusters, very fragrant. Petals, 

 separating only at their base. The disk at the base 

 of the seed-case set with five honey-glands alternating 

 with the stamens. 



Leaves, simple, rounded and heart-shaped. Edge, entire or 

 variously lobed or toothed. Tendrils, forked. 



Bark, loose and shredded (except in Southern Fox-Grape, 

 V. rotundifolia, MX.). 



Fruit, pulpy. 



Stems, climbing by help of slender and naked-tipped coil- 

 ing tendrils. 



" The wilde Vine with her branches few & clusters thinne 

 Adorns our countrey Bowre, a seemly thing I winne." 



GERARD'S HERBALL, London, 1597. 



" The subtlest, most evanescent of all sweet odors, that 

 of the wild grape-vine !" ATLANTIC MONTHLY, September, 

 1893- 



