112 VITACE.E. (VINE FAMILY.) 



§ 3. LOBADIUM, Raf. Flowers polygamo-diaxious, in dusUred scnlji-bracted 



spiL-es like calkins, ptecrdim] the leaves : disk b-parted, large : fruit as in ^l, but 



Jlatlish : harts ^-fuliolate. (Sot jioisonous.) 



6. il. arom^tiea, Ait. (Fkaukant S.) Leaves pubescent when young, 



thickisli wlien old; IcaHi-'ts 3, rhombic-ovate, unequally cut-toothed, the middle 



one wedge-shaped at tlic base; flowers pale yellow. — Ury rocky soil, fVonv 



Vermont westward and southward. April, May. — A straggling bush ; the 



crushed leaves sweet-scented. 



OitDEit 27. VITACE.E. (Vixk Family.) 



Shrubs with ivalery juice, usuatlij climbing by tendrils, with small regular 

 Jluicers, a minute or truncated calyx, its limb mostly obsolete, and the stamens 

 as many as the valvule petals and opposite them I Berry 2-celled, usualUj 4- 

 seeded. — Petals 4-5, very deciduous, hypogynous or perigynous. Fila- 

 ments slender : anthers introrse. Pistil with a short style or none, and a 

 slightly 2-lobed stigma: ovary 2-eelled, with 2 erect anatropous ovules 

 li'oiu the base of each cell. Seeds bony, with a minute embryo at the base 

 of the hard albumen, which is grooved on one side. — Stipules deciduous. 

 Leaves palmately veined or compound : tendrils and flower-clusters oppo- 

 site the leaves. Flowers small, greenish. (Young shoots, foliage, &c., 

 acid.) — Consists of Vitis and one or two nearly allied genera. 



1. VITIS, Touni. Gkape. 



Calyx very short, usunlly with a nenrly entire border or none at all, filled with 

 an adnate fleshy disk which bears the petals and stamens. — Flowers in a com- 

 pound tiiyrsus ; pedicels mostly umbellate-clustered. (The classical Latin name.) 

 § I. VITIS proper. Petals 5, cohering at tJie top, spparating at the base, and so 

 the corolla usually falls officilhoiit expanding: 5 thick glands or lobes of the disk 

 altcrmitivg ivilh the stamens: flowers polygamous or dioecious in all the Americm 

 sjiecies, exhaling a fragrance like tlmt of Mignonette: leaves simple, rounded and 

 heart-shapid, often variously and variably lobed. 



* Tjraves wooUy beneath, when lobed having obtuse or rounded sinuses. 



1. V. Labrusca, L. (Northeux Fox-Guai'E.) Branddels and young 

 leaves very woolly: leaves continuing rusiy-ivoolly beneath ; fertile panicles compact; 

 bcrrii-s large. — Moist thickets: common. June. Fruit ripe in Se])t. or Oct., 

 diirk purple or amber-color, with a tough musky pulp. Improved by cultivation, 

 it has given rise to the Isabella, Catawba, Concord, and other varieties. 



2. v. aestivalis, Mich.x. (Summer Grape.) Young leaves downy ivith 

 loose cobivebby hairs beneath, smoothish when old, green above; fertile panicles com- 

 pound, long and slender: ben-icx sm/f//, black with a bloom. — Thickets: com- 

 mon. M:iy, June. — Berries pleasant, ripe in Oct. 



♦ * Leaves smooth or nearly so and bright green both sid(S, commonly pubescent on the 

 rein^i beneath, either incisdy lobed or undivided. 



3. V. cordifblia, Michx. (Winter or Frost Grape.) Leaves thin. 



