VITACE^ 



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separate or united; stamens 4 or 5, opposite the petals, inserted on 

 a disk at the bottom of the calyx; ovary 2-6-oelled; fruit berry- 

 like. 



1. PSEDERA. Virginia Creeper. Woodbine. 



Calyx slightly 5-toothed; petals 5, separate, spreading; berry 

 2-4-seeded, inedible. Climbing vines with digitate leaves, and 

 flowers in cymose clusters. (Ampelopsis, Michx.) 



1. P. vitacea, (Knerr.) Greene. 



Leaflets 5, coarsely serrate, glabrous, turning red in the fall; tendrils 

 branched and with few, if any, adhesive disks at the ends; fruit dark purple. 

 (A. quinguefolia, Michx.), Moist woods, Man. 



Fio. 66, — Vitis vulpine 



