No. 5] Vine (Vitacece). 17 



Leaves, simple in the genus Vkis (Grape), compound in 

 the genus Ampelopsis (Virginia Creeper) ; alternate, 

 the lower ones often opposite ; edge various. 



Fruit, one- or two-celled, usually four-seeded. Seeds, 

 bony. A berry. 



Woody vines, with watery juice and swollen joints ; 

 climbing by tendrils ; the foliage and young shoots acid. 



GUIDE TO GENERA. 

 Leaves simple — (i) Vkis (Grape). 

 Leaves compound — (2) Ampelopsis (Virginia Creeper). 



(1) Genus Vitis, Tourn. (Grape.) 



Flowers, in compound clusters, very fragrant. Petals, 

 separating only at their base. The disk at the base 

 of the seed-case set with five honey-glands alternating 

 with the stamens. 



Leaves, simple, rounded and heart-shaped. Edge, entire or 

 variously lobed or toothed. Tendrils, forked. 



Bark, loose and shredded (except in Southern Fox-Grape, 

 V. rotundifolia, Mx.). 



Fruit, pulpy. 



Stems, climbing by help of slender and naked-tipped coil- 

 ing tendrils. 



" The wilde Vine with her branches few & clusters thinne 

 Adorns our countrey Bowre, a seemly thing I winne." 



Gerard's Herball, London, 1597. 



" The subtlest, most evanescent of all sweet odors, that 

 of the wild grape-vine!" — Atlantic Monthly, September, 

 1893. 



