DESCRIPTION OF FOREIGN VINES 
1. Ampelopsis. ‘‘ Boston Ivy.’’ (A. veitchii.) 
LEAF: simple or pinnate, alternate ; leaflets, 3 or 5, 1'-4', 
coarse-serrate, glossy, ovate-long-pointed or elliptical, smooth ; 
sometimes, especially in young plants only simple, ivy-lobed. 
FLOWER: inconspicuous (petals 4-5, soon falling, stamens 4-5), 
clustered ; a delicate climber; deciduous; climbing by rootlets 
with sucker-like disks ; var. tricolor has variegated foliage. (PI.I.) 
2. Irish or Scotch Ivy. (Hedera hibernica.) 
LEAF: 2-3’, simple, alternate, 3-5-lobed (sometimes entire), 
evergreen, glossy. FLOWER: p. greenish-yellow (petals, stamens 
and styles 5 or 10), clustered ; berries black; not essentially dif- 
ferent from common ivy, of which it is perhaps only a variety - 
climbing by rootlets. (PI. I.) 
3. Schizophragma hydrangeoides. 
LEAF: 2’-4', simple, opposite, serrate, ovate-cordate to rouna- 
ish, long-pointed, glossy, long-stemmed. FLOWER: p. white or 
flesh-colored (petals 5), in terminal cymes 6’ across, fall; vigor- 
ous, climbing by rootlets. Japan. (PI. I.) 
4. Great-flowered Trumpet-flower. (Tecoma grandiflora.) 
LEAF: pinnate, opposite ; leaflets, 5—II, 2'-3', serrate, lance- 
shaped, narrower than in native species radicans. FLOWER: 
scarlet and orange-yellow, 3’ broad and long (corolla wide-bell- 
shaped, 5-lobed); climbing less than radicans, by rootlets. 
Japan. 
5. Spindle-tree. (Euonymus radicans.) 
LEAF: 114’, simple, opposite, serrate, roundish or oval, rather 
leathery, evergreen. FLOWER: greenish, small (petals and sta- 
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