74 VITACE-S. 



1. K. ALNIFOLIUS, L'Herit. Alder-leaved Buckthorn. 



Shrub erect with unarmed branches : leaves alternate, ovate, acuminate, serrate, 

 pubescent on the veins beneath ; pediatries aggregate, 1-flowcml ; flowers mostly 

 pentandrous; calyx acute, styles 3> united, very short; fruit top-shaded . 



Sphagnous swamp?. May, June. A spreading shrub 2 to 4 feet high. Leares 

 1 to 3 inches long, *4 as wide, acute at base. Flowers small, greeniah, mostly 

 •petalous. Berries about as large as small peas, black. 



2. R. lanceolatus, Pursh. Lance-leaved Buckthorn. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate : (floral ones obtuse, mostly ovate or round- 

 ish), closely serrulate, minutely downy underneath ; petals 4, deeply obcordate* 

 •bout as long as the short stamens ; se 



Hills and river tanks : Bfereersbnrg, Franklin Co. Prof. Traill Grf>:n. Mav. A 

 tall shrub, not thorny. L<rt<-r leaves lonix. often oblong-ovate. Flowers vello wish- 

 green, dioecious-polygamous : QtepedieeU usually single in the more fertile plant, 

 whio'i has the 2-L-left style snorted, and produces abundant globular drapes about 

 the size of a pepper-corn. The less fertile plant bears rather larger flower-, on 

 clustered pedicels, with a very short and included style. Drupes large top-shaped* 

 distinctly pointed with the short style. Seeds obovate, deeply grooved. 



Order 36. VITACEJE— Tlie Tine Family. 



Shrubs, climbing by tendrils, with simple or compound leaves, and small, regular, 

 often polygamous or dioecious flowers icitu a minute truncate nearly entire calyx. 

 Petals 4 to 5. very deciduous, inserted on the outside of the disk. Stamens 4 to 5 

 opposite the petals, inserted on the disk, sometimes sterile, by abortion. Pistil* 

 with a short style, or none, and a slightly "2-lobed stigma. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 

 erect anatropous ovules from the base of each. Fecit a globose pulpy berry, with 

 hard albumen. 



1. VITIS. Linn. Vine. 



Calyx somewhat 4 to 5-toothed. Petals 4 to 5, cohering 

 at their apex, usually falling off without expanding. Sta- 

 mens 5. Style none. Base of the ovary surrounded with 

 Si 4 or 5-lobed ring, or 4 to 5 glands alternate with the 

 stamens. Berry 2-celled, 1 to 4-seeded j cells and seeds 

 often abortive. — Flowers fragrant in a compound thyrsc 

 Peduncles often changed into tendrils. 



1. V. Labrusca, L. Northern Fox Grape. 



Leaves very large, broad-cordate, angular-lobed, acutely toothed, smooth atov% 

 Tory woolly beneath, racemes small, panicled ; berries large. 



Moist thickets and woods: common. June. St<m climbing to a great height. 

 Leaves and young branches very woolly. Flowers small, green. Fruit larg6, 

 purple, often green or red. ripe in Sept. The Isabella, Catawba, Blands and other 

 sorts known in cultivation, are varieties of this species. 



2. V. aestivalis, Michx. Frost Grape. Winter Grape, 



Young leaves downy with loose ferruginous hairs beneath, smoothish when old, 

 green above, broadly cordate, 3 to 5-lobed or palmate-sinuate, coarsely dentate; 

 Jortik raeetM long, panicled, opposite the leaves; bcrrut small. 



