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4. V. indivisa, Willd. Leaves simple, undivided, ovate, truncate, or cor- 

 date at the base, acuminate, toothed-serrate, pubescent ; peduncles forking ; petals 

 and stamens 5 ; style slender; disk cup-shaped ; berry 1-3-soedcd. — Banks of 

 rivers, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. June. — Stem climbing high. 

 Berry small, black. 



5 2. VlTis. — Flcwers polygamous : petals 5, cohering at the top, free at the base: 

 stamens 5 : st^le short : disk thick, 5-tobed ; leaves simple, cordate, entire or variouslj/ 

 lobed. 



* Leaves and branches woolli/. . 



5. V. LabrUsea, L. (Fox-Grape. ) Leaves broadly cordate, angularly 

 3 - 5-lobed, mucronate-serrate, very woolly when young, at length sraoothish 

 above; fertile panicles or racemes few-flowered; berry large. — River-swamps, 

 Mississippi to North Carolina, and northward. May and Juno. — Leaves 4' - 6' 

 wide. Berry J' in diameter, purple or whitish, pleasant-flavored. 



6. V. Caribsea, DC Leaves round-cordate, with a broad and shallow 

 sinus, entire or 3-lobed, wavy-serrate, acute or acuminate, soon smooth above, 

 the lower surface, like the branches, petioles, and panicles, clothed with soft ash- 

 colored down ; panicles equalling or longer than the leaves ; pedicels smooth. 

 (Y. coriacea, Shuttt.'i a form with smaller and more rigid leaves.) — South 

 Florida. Ben-y ^' in diameter. 



7. V. aestivalis, Michx. (Summer Grape.) Leaves broadly cordate, 

 entire or 3 - 5-lobed, or on young plants pinnatifid, mucronate-serrate, covered 

 with a loose cobwebby down, at length smooth or nearly so on both sides ; pani- 

 cles long, many-flowered ; berry small. — Rich woods, Florida to Mississippi, 

 and northward. June. — Stem climbing high. Leaves 4' -7' wide. Panicle 

 6' -12' long, compound. Berry deep blue, very austere. 



* * Leaves and branches smoothish. 



8. V. COrdifolia, Michx. (Frost Grape.) Leaves thin, broadly cor- 

 date, entire or slightly 3-lobcd, mucronate-serrate; pubescence, when present, 

 soon vanishing ; panicles compound, many-flowered ; berry sraajl. — River- 

 swamps, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. May and June. — Leaves 3' - 6' 

 wide. Berry almost black, very acid. — A form with broader incisely lobed and 

 toothed leaves is V. riparia, Michx. 



9. V. vulpina, L. (Muscadine Bcllace.) Leaves broadly cordate, 

 toothed-serrate, smooth and glossy on both sides, or rarely, like the branches, 

 pubescent, the sinus at the base broad and rounded, or narrow and acute ; panicle 

 small; berry large. (V. rotundlfolia, Mickr.) — Banks of rivers, Florida to 

 North Carolina, and westward. June — Stem climbing high, with pale and 

 smooth bark. Leaves 2' - 3' wide. Berry J' -5' in diameter, purple, rfeasant- 

 flavored. — A form with smaller leaves and hemes, the latter very austere, is 

 sometimes called the Mostang Grape. 



2. AMPELOPSIS, Michx. 

 Petals distinct, spreading, concave. Disk none. — Leaves digitate. Flowers 

 clustered, in corymbose panicles. 



