70 The Botanical Gazette. [Februay 
BRIEFER ARTICLES. , 
Notes on a variety of Ampelopsis quinquefolia.—For the past tt 
years I have been observing a variety of the Virginia creeper thiti 
quite marked by characteristic points of difference from the Wg 
species. Other students of botany must have noticed this variatio. 
and it is strange if nothing has been published upon the subject, bi 
thus far I have failed to find anything. My attention was first 
to the variation by neighbors who had transplanted the V. 
creeper from the woods but complained that it failed to cling 
side of the house. That was in the Miami valley in Ohio. I} 
since observed it in southern Iowa and in eastern Kansas. It di 
seem to me that the peculiarities are sufficient to distinguish ital 
Structure of its tendrils. It climbs more like the grape an 
clematis by trailing over low shrubbery to that which is higher, unt 
may reach the lower branches of a tree when it may rise to acon 
able height by reaching from branch to branch rather than by 
close to the body of the tree and larger branches. ‘ 
Sometimes in transplanting the Virginia creeper this variety ®* 
the house. On examination the tendrils will be found to be more 
stem are much longer in the variety, causing the leaves to be ms 
more scattered. The nodes are more swollen as are the leaf 
at the base, making a much larger leaf scar, but the axillary D 
ler. ao 
The stem of the type species is quite rough, furrowed and 
especially as it grows older, while the variety is much smoother. 
fruit of the variety is more abundant, berries larger and in m 
corymbs. 
1[See W. R. Lazenby in this journal xm. 233 and xv. 233.—Eps.]__ 
