VINE FAMILY. 81 
Panicles slender, racemose, on short axillary peduncles. Drupes about the size of those in 
the ora species, dry, smooth, and shinin ng, pale brown. 
Woodlands and usr aoe rows: Can to Georgia, and the Rocky Mountains, Fl. 
May - ee ” Fr Se 
a plants ae ts ae immediatly so to the praeta 
‘Agriealtarist:- The Venetian Sumach (R. Corrnus) is often in 
ivati h: 
fas 
printing and for tanning morocco leather. The leaves of R, glabra, R. 
ina and rhaps others of our native species are used for the same 
purposes. Doct. Daclington has in his garden, at Westchester, a re- 
markable variety of R. glabra, in whieh the leaves are more or less 
completely bipinnate ; 2 was found in eyeen ae and is ht. 
of being propagated by the curious in such ma 
Orper XIX. VITA’CEA. (Vine Famizy.) 
plants, generally with a loose stringy bark, and stems ae by tendrils 
sropte compound leaves opposite the racemes acs! are sometim gee tly or whale 
changed tendrils. Flowers mostly in compound racemes nm polygamous or 
dicecious, peat g eenish. Calyx very small, entire, mee 5 toothed, lined with a perigy- 
nous disk. "Pale 4-5, valvate in sstiv: ation, sometimes wsvench § by the tips, caducous, 
matt os as the petals, and opposite them Ovary 2- with 2 erect collateral 
ovules in each cell. Prost a verry. Seeds with a bony testa ; “toa gp much shorte: r than 
umen. 
Bs bas ar. LL. Grape. 
[The ancient Latin name of the viné.] 
— ance 5-toothed, i ned with a fleshy disk which bears the 
and pistils. Petals 5, cohering at apex and speedily falling rs 
(pushed off at Be the stam oa. Stigma subsessile, obtuse y 
celled, 4-seeded,—some of the cells sand seeds often deta Perennial 
dating shrubs. a 
* Flowers een (Foreign species) eee 
1. V. vinir’era, L. Leaves lobed, sinuate-dentate, lil or a, 
mentose ; fruit of various sizes and colors. ‘ 
Wine-propuctne Viris. Wine Caan F G 
Fr. La Vigne. Germ. Der Weinstoc Spon La Vi 
or lose deat Lato ay cae ead Bestar 
Se Berries often large, of Memes ines 
a ae M lat 
Obs. Man: 
