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3. Cherokee and Talladega Counties. 



6A. (?). Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). 



6C. Greene, Hale and Autauga Counties. 



7. Marengo, Dallas, Lowndes, Montgomery and Macon Counties. 



8. Sumter (?), Marengo, Dallas and Wilcox Counties. 



9. Sumter County. 

 lOE. Crenshaw County. 



low. Marengo, Wilcox, Butler and Choctaw Counties. 



11. Washington, Clarke and Conecuh Counties. 



12. Geneva County. 



13. Washington County. 



13 or 14. Mobile County (Mohr). 



14. 15. Baldwin County. 



PARTHENOCISSUS, Planchoii. (Psedera, Neck.; Qitinaria, 



Raf.) 



Parthenocissus quinquefolia (L.) Planch. (Auipelopsis qiiin- 

 qucfoUa, Mx.) Virginia Cree;pe;r. 



A rather handsome vine, sometimes trailing on the ground, but 

 oftener clinging to rocks or trees by its peculiar disk-tipped ten- 

 drils. The sterns are sometimes as much as two inches in diameter, 

 and are very porous. The plant is sometimes mistaken for poison 

 ivy, but is easily distinguished from that by the fact that its leaves 

 normally have five leaflets, which taper gradually to the base. 

 Flowers in June ; berries ripe in fall, in f lattish clusters, small, 

 bluish, not edible. 



This is often cultivated for ornament, and will cover the side 

 of a brick or stone building in. much the same manner as the Eng- 

 lish ivy. It is showy for awhile in fall, when the leaves turn red. 

 The bark and young shoots have some medicinal properties. 



Widely distributed over the state, in rich or damp woods, pro- 

 tected from fire ; sometimes showing weedy tendencies. Not yet 

 observed in regions 1-i or 15, but it may grow in those neverthe- 

 less. 



