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BITTERSWEET ORDER 



VITIS Linne 1753 GRAPE 

 (The Latin name) 



Sepals 4-5, united into a calyx, petals greenish, coherent and falling 

 without expanding, stamens 4-5, ovary mostly 2-celled, berry globose, or 

 ovoid, few-seeded; flowers mostly dioecious or polygamous, in racemes or 

 panicles; leaves simple, usually digitately lobed; climbing or trailing 

 woody vines with tendrils. 

 Leaves 3-7-lobed, 4-6 in. long ; berry 8-12 mm. wide V. vulpina 



PARTHENOCISSUS Planchon 1887 VIRGINIA CREEPER, AMERICAN IVY 

 (Gr. parthenos, maiden, kissos, ivy) 

 PL 33, fig. 7. 



Sepals 5, united into a calyx, petals 5, greenish, stamens 5, ovary 2- 

 celled, berry 1-4-seeded, not edible ; flowers perfect or polygamous-mon- 

 oecious, in compound cymes or panicles ; leaves digitate, leaflets 5-7 ; climb- 

 ing or trailing woody vines, the tendrils coiling, or with adhering disks. 

 Leaflets lance-oblong to ovate, 2-6 in. long; berry 10- 



12 mm. wide P. quinquefolia 



RHAMNACEAE BUCKTHORN FAMILY 



Sepals 4-5, united into a tube, petals 4-5, or none, stamens 4-5, inserted 

 with the petals on the calyx, ovary 2-5-celled, free or immersed in the disk, 

 fruit a drupe or capsule, often 3-celled; flowers in axillary or terminal 

 cymes or panicles, perfect or polygamous; trees or shrubs, often thorny, 

 with alternate simple leaves. 



1. Fruit fleshy, berry-like; petals with a short claw 



or wanting RHAMNUS 



2. Fruit dry, 3-lobed, becoming 3 nutlets ; petals 



with a long claw CEANOTHUS 



CEANOTHUS Linne 1753 REDROOT 



(Greek name of a plant) 



PL 33, fig. 4-6. 



Sepals 5, united into a hemispheric or top-shaped calyx, petals 5, white 

 to pink, hood-like, clawed, stamens 5, ovary immersed in the disk and grown 

 to it at the base, 3-lobed, style 3-cleft, fruit dry, 3-lobed, separating into 3 

 nutlets when ripe ; flowers in terminal or axillary cyme-like panicles ; leaves 

 alternate, simple; shrubs. 



