224 CLIMBERS 



O Twigs roiind, xoith prominent lenticels: 

 periderm of the supple and pendent 

 branches reddish-grey^ fissured and corky. 

 Leaves compound, digitate. 



Ampelopsis hederacea, Michx. Virgiuian Creeper (Fig. 

 50). The plant may reach the roof of a tall house, 30 feet 

 being by no means an uncommon height. The tendrils may 

 expand at the tips and form sucker-like discs gluing them to 

 bricks, bark, &c. Flowers small in dense clusters, drooping 

 in fruit, which rarely ripens in England. Twigs round, 

 finely striate and cracked: periderm superficial, olive- 

 tawny. The brilliant autumn foliage very striking. 



£70 Twigs striated and grooved, snwoth, 

 yellow-hrown, stif and zig-zagged: the 

 deep periderm of older branches bursting 

 the cortex in torn and twisted fibres. 

 Berries {grapes) purple or yellowish. 



Vitis vimfera, L. Vine (Fig. 49). The Vine may climb 

 up to 20 — 30 feet, but is rarely seen uupruued. About 

 every third leaf is without an opposed tendril : the latter 

 twisting only. The ragged fibrous bark is greyish. 



t+ No tendrils: the plant merely flings its 

 shoots over the support, or scrambles over 

 or through it. 



[For ( G ) ® Scrambling by the aid of recurved prickles, 



see p. 225.] flattened at the sides and broad at the base, 



like claws, which act as hooks preventing 

 the shoots from slipping back. Leaves 

 compound. Flowers rosaceous, in panicles 

 or corymbs. 



£7 Branches angxdar, arching, green, or pxir- 

 plish. Leaves falsely ternate or digitate. 

 Flowers in corymbose panicles. Fruit a 

 collection of drupels. 



Ruhus fruticosus, L. Blackberry. The Brambles may 



