Viscaria 



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Vitis 



VISCARIA (sec LYCHNIS). 



VISCUM. 



Shrubby parasites (ord. Loranthaceaj), found 

 growing on trees of various kinds. There are 

 about thirty species, the larger number occurring 

 in tropical countries, whence they have never yet 

 been successfully introduced. Only one species, 

 the native album, 2', May, green, is generally 

 known, for those not familiar with the plant in a 

 growing state recognise the berried growths im- 

 ported so largely from Normandy as an indis- 

 pensable item in Christmas decorations. (See 

 MISTLETOE.) Cruciatum, 1' to 2', March, red fruit, 

 a parasite on the common Olive, is cultivated in 

 some gardens. At Kew it is growing on a plant 

 of Pyrus torminalis. 



VISMIA. 



Stove evergreen shrubs (i>rd. Hypericineie). Prop- 

 agation, by cuttings of side growths, getting firm 

 at the base, in sand. Soil, fibrous loam and peat 

 in equal parts, with sand and a little charcoal. 



Principal Species : 



brasiliensis, 8', Aug., yd. guianeusis, 8', Aug., yel. 

 glabra, 10', Jy., red. guiueensis, 6', My., yel. 



sessilifolia, 6', My., yel. 



VISNEA. 



Greenhouse evergreen trees (ord. Temstru'ini- 

 acese). Propagation, by cuttings, in sand, beneath 

 a bell-glass. Soil, equal parts of loam and peat. 



Principal Species : 



Mocanera, C', Mch., whitish grn. 



VITEX. 



Hardy deciduous or stove evergreen trees and 

 shrubs (ord. Verbenaceso). Propagation, by cut- 

 tings in autumn, the hardy species under a hand- 

 light, and the stove species in heat. Light, well- 

 drained soil suits the hardy forms, and a mixture 

 of loam, peat, and sand the tender ones, 



Principal Species : 



Agnus-castus, 6', Aug., capitata, G', Je., bl. 



pale lil., almost wh., Negundo, 4', sum., pur. 



.My. trifolia, 5', Jy., bl. ; there 



biguonioides, 8', Jy., st., isavar. with variegated 



bl. Ivs. 



umbrosa, 25', sum., pur. 



VITIS. (VINE.) 



Description. A great and important genus of 

 greenhouse, stove, or hardy creeping or climbing 

 shrubs (ord. Ampelidea;), some of which vinifera, 

 the original of our Grape Vines (sec GRAPES), is 

 the chief are valued for their fruit, and manv are 

 ornamental on trelliswork, walls, or trees. " The 

 cultivation of these hardy, ornarnental-foliaged 

 Vines is greatly on the increase, and the fine tints 

 the leaves assume in autumn add greatly to their 

 value. Ampelopsis and Cissus may also be re- 

 ferred to for some of the species botanically 

 included with Vitis, but known in gardens by 

 those names. 



Propagation. By eves or by cuttinsrs, the former 

 being the general method for Grape Vines in this 

 country, and the latter for the species. Layering, 

 grafting, budding, and inarching may also be 

 practised, and some of the species are occasionally 

 raised from seeds. 



Soil. Good fibrous loam for the species. (&e 

 GRAPES for the Grape Vines.) 



Principal Species and Varieties : 

 [NOTE. f r. = fruit.] 



1 a>stivalis, My., hdy. cl., cl., sweet scented, 



fr. blk. American Sum- fr. pur. or yellowish, 



mer Grape. Ivs. heart shaped, round- 



califomica, sum., hdy. cl., ish. The parent of a 



fr. blk. , Ivs. small, crim. number of vars., and 



ill aut. used in raising new 



candicans, hdy. cl., fr. Vines to withstand 



blk., Ivs. handsome, Phylloxera Fox Grape, 



heart shaped, wh. be- Pluiu Grape, Isabella 



neath. Grape. 



! Coignetia?, Ivs. very hand- lanata, hdy. cl., gru., fr. 



some, large, becom- pur., Ivs. pubescent, 



ing crim. or claret finely coloured in aut. 



coloured in aut. ptcrophora, st. cl., with 



Engelmaimi, Ivs. palmate, interesting habit, Ivs. 



climbs by means of stem trifoliolate, on long 



roots ; an excellent stalks ; tubers formed 



species for walls or at end of branches, and 



trees. detached, make young 



flexuosa major, fine, decor- plants (SI/H. gongyl- 



ative, hdy. Vine ; the odes), 



three-lobed Ivs. are 6" Komanetii, hdy. cl., Ivs. 



or more across, finely variable, grn. above, 



coloured in aut. wh. below (*//*. pseudo- 



heterophylla humulifolia, spina and Ampulovitis 



low hdy. cl., pretty Komanetii). 



foliage, fr. china bl., obtusifolia, heart 



blk. spotted. Turquoise- shaped, wh. 



berry Vine. serotina, later fruiter. 



humulifolia variegata, variegata (Mine. Cap- 



Ivs. variegated. lat). 



inconstaus, the correct vinifera, hdy. cl., fr. vari- 



name of Ampelopsis able : the original of 



tricuspidata (Veitchii; the Grape Vines (see 



ayn. japonica of gar- Grapes), 



dens). Small -leaved laciniosa, Ivs. in five 



Virginian Creeper. deeply cleft segments 



Labrusca, 20' and up- (*!/H. apiifolia). 

 wards, Je., very hdy. 



Other Species and Varieties : 



acumiiiata, grh. or st. capreolata, hdy. cl. on 



cl., Ivs. rounded, wall in the south of 



pointed, toothed, glab- England, fr. small, blk., 



rous above, glaucous Ivs. pretty, five-foliate. 



wh. below, fr. blk. chontaletisis', Dec., st. cl., 



segirophylla, hdy. cl., Ivs. sc., Ivs. bright gru., 



pale, glabrous, ovate, trifoliolate (xyii. Cissus 



pointed, fr. small. choutalensis). 



albo-nitens, st. cl., Ivs. cinerea, hdy. cl., Ivs. 



marked silvery wh. (,</. about 1' across, glossy 



Cissus albo-nitens). a hove. 



amazonica, st. cl., Ivs. canesceus, Ivs. smaller, 



large, oval, pointed, prettier. 



silver veined, red below cirrhosa, grh. shr., stems 



(S//H. Cissus amazonica). with long tendrils, Ivs. 



amurensis, Ivs. entire or glabrous. 



lobed, woolly (sijn. viui- cordifolia, My., hdy. cl., 



fera amureusis). fragrant, fr. lil. or 



antarctica, grh. cl., Ivs. blk., Ivs. heart shaped, 



ovate or oblong, fr. toothed, three lobrd. 



round (syn. Cissus ant- Winter, Chicken, or 



arctica). Kangaroo Frost Grape. 



, Vine. davidiana (we hetero- 



apiifolia (see vinifera laci- phylla). 



niosal. doauiana, hdy. cl., Ivs. 



argyrophylla (an error for and branches whitish, 



a-girophylla). Endresii, st. cl., Ivs. deep 



Bainesii, 4 j', succulent st. grn.. red veined, heart 



tree, non-climbing. shaped. 



Berlandieri, hdy. or hlf- flexuosa, hdy. cl., Ivs. 



hdy., steins pubescent, heart shaped, toothed. 



IYB. round, heart shaped, gongy lodes (we ptero- 



with three lobes, fr. phora). 



dark vio. (SI/H. inouti- hetprophylln, tall cl., fr. 



cola of Engeimami). inedible, Ivs. palmately 



capeiisis, grh. trailer, Ivs. lobed. 



kidney shaped, angled, hypoglauca, grh. shr., 



toothed, fr. dark red. 



