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Minnesota Plant Life. 



Wild grapes. The wild grapes can scarcely be mistaken for 

 any other plants, except, perhaps, the moonseeds, from which 

 they are known at once by their more or less pear-shaped seeds. 



FIG. 157. _Tree covered by grape-vine. After photograph by Williams. 



They are all of them tendril-bearing, climbing, shrubby vines, 

 with characteristic maple-like leaves. The flowers are either 

 altogether separated, or of two sorts on the same plant. It 



