1386 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
abortion; embryo erect; albumen hard. — Climbing shrubs, with tumid 
separable joints. ; : A 
Leaves simple or compound, opposite or alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; 
the lower ones opposite, the upper alternate. Fowers axillary, racemose, 
sometimes by abortion changing to tendrils, which are generally opposite to 
the leaves ; small, green. — Shrubs, trailing and climbing, deciduous, and 
including the grape vine, which may be considered as the type of the 
order. The genera which contain hardy species are three, which are thus 
contradistinguished : — 
Vi'ris. Style wanting. Petals 5. 
AmPELo’psis. Style 1. Petals 5. 
Cr’ssus. Style 1. Petals 4, 
Genus I. 
FAM, 
PITIS L. Tue Grape Vine. Lin. Syst. Pentandria Monogynia. 
Identification. Lin. Gen., 284.; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 633.; Don’s Mill., 1. p. 695. 
Synonymes, Giud, Celtic; Vid, Span.; Vigne, Fr.; Vite, Ital. ; Wein, Ger. 
Gen. Char. Flowers hermaphrodite, dicecious or tricecious. Calyx commonly 
5-toothed. Petals 5, cohering at the top, separating at the base, and de- 
ciduous. Stamens 5. (Dec. Prod.)— Climbing tendriled shrubs, deciduous ; 
natives of Asia and North America. 
Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, lobed or serrated. Flowers in thyr- 
soid racemes, small, and of a greenish yellow.— There are several species in 
British gardens, the principal of which is the grape vine. 
Al. V.vini’Fera L. The wine-bearing Vine. 
Identification. Lin. Spec., 293. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 633. 3 Don’s Mill., 1. p. 695. 
Synonymes. Vigne, Fr.; gemeiner Weinstock, Ger.; Vite da Vino, Ital. 
Engravings. Duh. Arb. Fr., 2. t.16.; Jacq. Ic., 1. p. 53. ; and our fig. 181 
Spec. Char.,§c. Leaves 
lobed, toothed, si- 
nuated, or serrated, 
naked or downy. 
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ripe in October. 
Decaying leaves yel- 181. Vitis vinifera. 
low or red. Naked young wood yellowish brown. 
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Varieties. The grape vine has been in cultivation from the remotest period of 
history, in the warmest parts of the temperate zones of the Old World. 
The varieties have been described at length by Du Hamel in France, Don 
Roxas de Clementi in Spain, and Sickler in Germany. The varieties of the 
vine as a fruit shrub, and all that relates to their propagation and culture, 
will be found treated of in our Encyclopedia of Gardening ; and we shall 
