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VINE 



Style short ; stigma simple, lobed. Entomophilous. Pollen 

 greenish-yellow, large, ellipsoid-truncate, with 3 longi- 



Fig. 111. Vine. Plan-diagram of shoot-system ; rk, tendril, ending the 

 axis; It, shoot; st, stipules of the leaf on It, and shown below them; v, 

 bract from the axil of which spring two shoots, viz. gz, which begins with 

 a leaf l lt and its two stipules st, and of which 1 2 is the second leaf, &c. , and 

 It-i, which begins with a bract v l from the axil of which similar shoots 

 arise, and so on, p. 291 (Ei). 



tudinal folds, finely alveolate, about 53 JJL long. Berry 

 1 -chambered, 2 4-seeded. 



Jf $ Petals expanded and not pushed off. 



Ampelopsis hederacea, Mchx. Virginian Creeper (Fig. 

 112). Climber, with leaf-opposed tendrils, palmate leaves, 

 and small, protandrous, honey-bearing flowers in complex 

 panicles. 



Calyx almost entire or obsolete ; petals and stamens 5, 

 the former spreading, and not coherent into a cap. Ento- 

 mophilous. Pollen sulphur-yellow, ellipsoid-truncate, with 

 3 longitudinal folds, finely alveolate, about 53 //, long. 



Flowers large, irregular, more or less obliquely 

 zygomorphic ; stamens about 7. Inflores- 

 cence large, pyramidal, panicle-like but 

 with cymose ends to the branches (thyrsus). 



