30 Vine ( Vitacece). [No. 5 



Bark, pale and smooth, not shredded. Pith, continuous 

 through the joints. 



Branchlets, with minute dots. 



Fruit, large (half to three quarters inch in diameter), 

 purplish, without bloom, very tough-skinned, with 

 pleasant musky flavor ; few in a bunch ; ripening 

 late. Seeds, with wrinkles across both sides. 



found, often in cultivation, and native just south of our 

 limits, from Maryland to Kentucky and Kansas, and 

 southward. 



The cultivated Scuppernong common in Southern gar- 

 dens is derived from this species. 



(2) Genus AMPELOPSIS, MX. 



From two Greek words meaning " vine " and " appearance." 



Fig. 14. Virginia-Creeper. American Ivy. Woodbine. A. 



quinque folia, MX. 



Flowers, small, greenish, in clusters. Petals, five, concave, 

 spreading, thick. Calyx, slightly five-toothed. Seed- 

 case, two-celled, each cell with two young seeds. 

 Style, very short. July. 



Leaves, alternate, compound. Leaflets, three to seven 

 (usually five), long and pointed, radiating from a 

 centre ; edges coarsely sharp-toothed above the mid- 

 dle, entire toward the base ; smooth, brilliantly colored 

 in the fall. Tendrils, swelling at the tips into sucker- 

 like disks by means of which the plant clings firmly 

 to walls and trees in its extensive climbing. 



