AmjKlupsls. VITACE.E. 431 



pale green, 3-parted or trifoliolate, very fleshy; the divisions or leaflets wedge-ovate and 

 mostly notched on the sides as well as on tlie top, and the middle one sometimes luhed : 

 inflorescence umliflliform : herry obovuid, bhickisli, with 1 or 2 seeds, the pedicel gtrongly 

 recurved. — Desniuul. in Durand, Monogr. Vit. 59 ; Planch. 1. c. 5.35. C. iwisa, var. Jiocfuaiiu, 

 Carr. Uev. Hurt. hi. 272, Hgs. C. Rorluuiui, I'lanch. Jour. Vigne Am. 1888,102. Vitl» 

 iiirisd, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 24.'}; Ciiapm. Fl. 70. 1'. aridn, riancli. 1. c., in jiart. — 

 Arkansas and Te.xas; also Florida, St. Vincent's I.sl. and Ilillshuro Hiv.r, Curti.sx, no. 458, 

 and probably southward. Leaves various. Nut unlikely a geogra))lii(;il form of tiie liL^t. 

 Root sometimes tuberous-thickened. 



# * Leaves not lobcd. 

 C. sicyoides, L., var. Floridana, Planch. Climbing, witli pilose Ptriato brandios: 

 leaves ovate-oblong and often acuminate, subcordate at tlie base, strongly nerved, pubes- 

 cent below (at least on the veins), tiie margin beset witii small ascending nmcronate teeth: 

 inflorescence umbel-like and peduncled ; berry nearly gloimlar, black, 1-seeded. — I'lanch. 

 in DC. Monogr. Phaner. v. 530. — S. Florida: Caluosaliatchee Hirer to Cape Sable, C'nrtiss, 

 no. 457*. A form in whicii the flowers are transformed (by the fungus UsiIUkjo Cissi) into 

 cigar-form bodies, tlie duster becoming elongated, is S pond y I ant ha aji/iylla, Presl. — Cape 

 Romano, Florida, Curtiss, and the West Indies. 



3. AMPEL6PSIS,^ Michx., in part. ("A/ATreXo?, tlic vine, oi/^is, likeness.) 

 — E. North American and Asiatic woody climbers, with short and branched ten- 

 drils, their tips often with di.sk-like dilatations which adhere to impinged surfaces. 

 Cymes not tendriliferous. Flowers greenish, sestival. Leaves various. — Fl. 

 i. 159, in part; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 245; Gray, Man. ed. 1-6, & Gen. 111. ii. 

 165, t. 162. Quinaria, Raf. Am. Man. Vines (1830), 6, & Med. Bot. ii. 122. 

 Landukia &, Parthenocissus, Planch, in DC. Monogr. Phaner. v. 446, 447 

 (1887). 



A. tricuspidAta, Sieb. & Zucc. Fam. Nat. Fl. Jap. (Ahh. Akad. Miinchen, iv.) i. 88 (the 

 A. Veltchii of gardens), — a Japanese species, remarkable for its three forms of leaves, two 

 of them simple, and the greater development of what answers to ovarian disk, — is in common 

 cultivation as Jn/mnese In/, Jajianese Creeper, or Boston Vine. It promptly covers walls, attach- 

 ing itself firmly by means of its very short disciferous tendrils. .^1. hetcrophijlla, Blume (Lan- 

 dukia Landuk, Planch.) is a clear congener. 



A. quinquefolia, Michx. (Virginia Creeper, "Woodhine erroneously.) Tall vine, 

 climbing by both disciferous tendrils and aerial rootlets, with warty and dark-colored canes: 

 leaves palmately .3-7-foliolate, but normally 5-foliolate, the leaflets ovate or obovate to oblong- 

 ovate, cuneate-obovate or even oblong-lanceolate, upon distinct petiolules, ranging from 

 coarsely serrate to dentate, notched or even incised-dentate, mostly acuminate, generally 

 glabnms or soon becoming so: cymes various but mostly broadly dichotomous, sometimes 

 elong.ated and leafy : berries globular, the size of pea.s, purjde witii a dark blue bloom, the 

 pulp thin and subacid. — Fl. i. 160; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 114; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 245 (and 

 var. hirsuta); Gray, Gen. Ill ii. t. 162. .1. hederacea, DC. Prodr. i. 633 ; Loud. Arb. i. 482, 

 f. 146. A. hirsuta, Donn, Hort. Cantab, ed. 6, 62; DC. I.e. 633. Vitis hederacea, Ehrh. 

 Beitr. vi. 85. V. quinqnefolia, Lam. 111. ii. 135. Hedera quinquefolia, L. Spec. i. 202. Quinaria 

 hederacea, & Q. hirsuta, Raf. Med. Bot. ii. 122. Cissus hederacea, Pers. Syn. i. 143. Par- 

 thenocissus quinquefolia and vars. ti/j>ica, hirsuta, & laciniata. Planch, in DC. Monogr. Phaner. 

 V. 449. — Rich woods and banks, Quebec to Winnipeg and the Rocky Mountains, and to 

 S. Florida, Texas, and New Mexico. (Cul)a.) 



Var. vitdcea, Knerr. Aerial roots none, and tendrils little or not at all disciferous 

 (the vine tlierofore not dinging well) ; the canes smoother: cymes rather more dichotO" 

 mous and open : berries larger and earlier. — Bot. Gaz. xviii. 70. Parthenocissus vitaceot 

 Hitchcock, Spring Fl. Maniiattan, 26 (1894). — Michigan to Kansas. 



1 Remarks under genus, and account of A. tricuspidala, by A. Gray. 



