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POPULAR FLORA. 



1. European Grape. Flowers all perfect; leaves deeply and sharply lobed. Cult, in several varie. 

 ties, viz. Sweetwater Grape, Black Hamburg, &c., V. vinifera. 



%. NoKTHEKN Fox-Grape. Leaves very woolly when young, remaining rusty-woolly beneath; ber- 

 ries large, purple or amber-colored. — Improved varieties of this, without the foxy taste and the 

 iough pulp, are the Isabella and the Catawba Grapes. V. Labriisca. 



3- Summer Grape. Leaves with loose cobwebby down underneath, smoothish when old ; panicles of 

 fertile flowers very long and slender; berries small, ripe with first frost. V. cEstivalis. 



i. Frost Grape. Leaves thin, heart-shaped, never woolly, not shining, sharply and coarsely toothed, 

 little or not at all lobed ; panicles loose ; berries blue or black with a bloom, sour, ripening late. 

 Common along river-banks, &o. V. cordifdKa. 



6. Muscadine or Southern Fox-Grape. Bark of the stem close, not thrown off in loose strips, as 

 in the others ; leaves round-heart-shaped, shining, not downy, very coarsely toothed ; panicles small, 

 with crowded flowers ; berry large, musky, with a very thick and tough skin. A variety is the 



Scuppernong Grape. Common S. 

 Virginia-Creeper. Ampeldpsis. 



Petals 6, thick, opening before 

 they fall. Leaves palmate with 5 

 leaflets (Fig. 74). Berries small, 

 blackish. A very common tall- 

 climbing vine, wild and culti- 

 vated. A. quinquefdlia. 



F. milpina. 



340. Flower opening 



341. Same, with the 



peiuls fallen. 



Twig of Grape-vine. 



29. BUCKTHORN FAMILY. Order RHAMNACE^. 

 Woody plants, with simple alternate leaves, known by having the stamens as many as the 



small petals (4 or 5) and one before each of them, 

 both inserted on the calyx or on a fleshy cup which 

 lines the tube of the calyx ; the lobes of the latter 

 valvate, i. e. edge to edge in the bud. Fruit of 2 to 

 5 cells, and one large seed in each. 



342. Flowen of a Buckthorn, 343. Same, cut through lengthwiM. 

 342 343 



Calyx free from the ovary, greenish. Petals shorter than the calyx, or none, (Rhamnm) Buckthorn. 

 Calyx below adherent to the ovary, its lobes petal-like (white in our species) and 



bent inwards, shorter than the stamens and long-clawed petals, (Ceanithus) New-Jersey Tka. 



