KIIAMXACK.t. (bUCKTIIOUN FAMILY.) 113 



not shininjj, heart-shaped, aeuminatc, siiarply and coarselj' toothed, often ob- 

 scurely 3-lubcd ; jKinirlis cniiifioidal, lun/e tiitd hose; lii-rn'cs siikiII, Idiic or Idack 

 with a hloom, vcn/ acerb, ripening' after frosts. — V;ir. imiXkia, has the leaves 

 broader and eut-Jobed. (V. riparia, Miclix.) — 'J likkits iiinl rivur-bauks : com- 

 nion. May, June. — Flowers very sweet-scented. 



4. V. vulpina, L. (Muscadine or Sorriii;i!N Fox-Gijapk.) Lenvrs 

 shiiiiiuj both sides, small, rounded with a heart-shaped base, very coarsely toothed 

 with broad and bluntish teeth, seldom lobed ; ]>titiicles simdl, densel if flowered ; 

 berries lanje (j'-i|' in diameter), musky, purplish without a bloom, with a thick 

 and toufih skiu, ri])e early in autumn. — Hiver-banks, Maryland to Kentucky and 

 southward. May. — Bark of stem close, not separatinj: in strips as in the other 

 species. Branchlets minutely warty. This is the original of the Scitppertiotig 

 Grape, &c. 



§ 2. 'CISSUS, L. Petals (5 in mir species) expanding before or when they fall: 

 disk thick and broad, usually 4 - 5-lobed : flowers commonly perfect : tendrils 

 fwer. 



5. V. indivisa, AVilld. Nearly glabrous; leaves heart-shaped or truncate 

 at the base, coarsely and sharjdy toothed, acuminate, not lobed ; panicle snuiU 

 and loose; style slender; berries of the size of a pea, 1-3-sceded. — River- 

 banks, West Virginia, Ohio, and southward. June. 



6. V. bipinn^ta, Torr. & Gray. Nearly glabrous, Imshy and rather u])- 

 right ; leares twice pinnate or ternate, the leaflets cut-toothed ; flowers cymose ; 

 calyx 5-toothed ; disk very thick, adherent to the ovary; berries black, obovate. 

 — Rich soils, Virginia, Kentucky, and southward. 



2. AMPELOPSIS, .Michx. Virginian CRicErER. 



Calyx slightly 5-toothed. Petals concave, thick, expanding before they fall. 

 Disk none. — Leaves digitate, with 5 oblong-lanceolate sparingly serrate leaf- 

 lets. Flower-elnsters eymose. Tendrils fixing themselves to trunks or walls by 

 dilated suckcr-likc disks at their tips. (Name from dpnf'Kos, a vine, and oyj/is, 

 ap/iearauie. ) 



1. A. quinquef61ia, Michx. — A common woody vine, in low or rich 

 grounds, climbing extensively, sometimes by rootlets as well as by its disk- 

 bearing tendrils, blo>soming in July, ripening its small blackish berries in 

 October. Also called Amerlrnn Try, and still less appropriately, Woodbine. 

 Leaves turning bright crimson in autumn. 



Order 28. KIIAITINACE^. (IkicKTiioRX Family.) 



Shrubs or small In^es, with sitnjde leaves, small and regular floicers (^some- 

 times apelalous), with the 4 or 5 perigynous stamens as many as the valvate 

 sep(ds and alternate with them, accordingly opposite the petals .' Drape or 

 poll with only one erect seed in each cell, not arilled. — Petals folded in- 

 wards in the bud, hooded or concave, in.serted alonp with the stamens 

 into the edge of the fleshy disk wliich lines the siiort tid)e of the calyx 

 and sometimes unites it to the lower part of the 2 - 5-celled ovary. 

 L & M— -J.-. 



