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II. 

 DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 



I. Broadleaf shrubs. 

 A. Leaves simple. 

 1. Leaves alternate. 



a. Stems climbing or twining (vines), 

 b. With prickles. 

 c. With tendrils. 



d. Leaves 2-5 cm. long, ovate, bearing a pair 

 of tendrils at base; fruit a round cluster 

 of black berries ; stems with long weak 



blackish prickles (Smila.v) Greenbrier 



bb. Without prickles. 

 c. With tendrils. 



d. Leaves usually palmately lobed or dentate; 

 fruit an elongated cluster of round pulpy 



edible berries (Vitis) Grape 



cc. Without tendrils. 



d. Leaves 1-2 dm. wide, ovate or with 3-7 

 lobes ; flowers greenish white, 3-4 mm. 

 wide ; fruit a black berry 6-8 mm. in diam- 

 eter, with a spiral shaped seed 



(Menispermum) Moonseed 



dd. Leaves 2.5-5 cm. wide, 5-10 cm. long, with 

 wavy margins ; flowers greenish, about 4 

 mm. broad, in clusters 5-10 cm. long, fruit 

 a yellow or orange capsule 10-12 mm. in 

 diameter; seeds red . . . (Celast rus) Bittersweet 

 aa. Stems erect, 

 b. With prickles. 



c. Leaves entire, linear, 1-4 cm. long, 2-3 mm. 

 wide ; fruit surrounded by a distinctly vein- 

 ed wing 8-12 mm. broad 



(Sarcobatus) Greasewood 



cc. Leaves lobed, broadly ovate, 2-5 cm. long; 

 fruit a berry with shriveled remains of 



calyx at tip, in clusters of 1-5 



(Ribes) Gooseberry 



bb. Without prickles. 



c. Leaves with entire margins (edge neither 



