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cymes. Calyx entire or 4-5-toothed. Petals 4-5, separ- 

 ate or coherent, valvate. Stamens 4-5, opposite the 

 petals ; filaments subulate, inserted at the base of the 

 disk or between its lobes. Disk sometimes obsolete or 

 wanting ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 1, generally immersed 

 in the disk, 2-6-celled ; ovules 1-2 in each cell, ascend- 

 ing, anatropous. Fruit a 1-6-celled, commonly 2-celled, 

 berry. Testa bony ; endosperm cartilaginous ; embryo 

 short. 



1. VITIS L. WILD GRAPE. 



Climbing or trailing woody vines, mostly with tendrils. 

 Leaves simple, usually palmately lobed or detate. Stip- 

 ules generally small, caducous. Flowers mostly dioe- 

 cious, or polygamo-dioecious, rarely perfect. Petals 

 hypogynous or perigynous, coherent in a cap and decidu- 

 ous without expanding. Ovary 2-celled, rarely 3-4-celled ; 

 style very short, conic ; ovules 2 in each cell. Berry 

 globose or ovoid, pulpy. 



1. V. Girdiana Munson. Strong climbing vine with thick 

 diaphragms; leaves 15 cm. broad or less, broadly cordate-ovate, 

 with a rather deep and narrow sinus, obscurely 3-lobed, and with 

 many small and acute teeth, closely ashy tomentose beneath; 

 flower clusters large, very compound; berries small, black, 

 slightly glaucous; seeds pyriform. 



Occasional along streams in the foothills. June. 



Family 54. MALVACEAE. MALLOW FAMILY. 



Herbs or shrubs with alternate mostly palmately 

 veined leaves. Stipules small, deciduous. Flowers regu- 

 lar, perfect, or rarely dioecious or polygamous. Calyx 

 often bracted at the base. Sepals 5, rarely 3 or 4, more 

 or less united, usually valvate. Petals 5, hypogynous, 

 convolute. Stamens many, hypogynous, monadelphous, 

 forming a central column around the pistil, united with 



