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Hills, woods ami river banks. June. Stem very Iornr, slender, climbing. Leaves 

 very large, clothed beneath when young with cobweb-like, rust-colored pubescence. 

 Tendrils from the peduncles, with an opposite leaf. Berries deep blue, with a 

 bloom well flavored, but small, ripe in Sept 



3. V. CORDIFOLIA, Michx. Frost Grape. Winter Grape. 



Leaves cordate, acuminate, somewhat equally but coarsely toothed, smooth on 

 hoth sides; raceme loose, many-flowered; berries small. 



Thickets by river banks : common. June. Stem ascending, shrubs and trees to 

 the height of 10 to 20 feet Leave* large, membraneous, often 3-lobed, with pubes- 

 cent reins when young, and a few mncronate teeth. Berries nearly black, small, 

 late, acid, but well flavored after being frosted. 



4. V. VINIFERA. Common Wine Grajie. 



Leases cordate, sinuately 5-lobed. smooth ; flowers all perfect. Naturalized in 

 nearly all temperate climate-. Varieties without end may be raised from the seed, 

 which will bear fruit the 4th or 5th year. 



2. AMPELOPSIS. Michx. 



Qr. ampelos, the vine, and ops;'?, appearance; resembling the vine. 



Calyx slightly 5-stalked. Petals concave, spreading 

 deciduous after expansion. Stigmas capitate. Ovary with- 

 out a 5-lobed ring, 2 to 4-seeded. — Fine shrubby creepers with 

 diytikiti or cordate leaves and cymose clusters of flowers: sup- 

 ported by radiating tendrils. 



1. A. QUINQUEFOLIA, Michx. Virginian Creeper. 



Leaves quinate, digitate; leaflets oblong, acuminate, pctiolate. dentate, smooth, 

 racemes somewhat dichotomously cymose. 



Woods anl thickets. June. July. A vigorous climber, cultivate! as a covering 

 for walls, trellises. Ac. floteers inconspicuous, greenish, in forked cl asters. Berries 

 dark blue, smaller than peas. 



2. E. cordata, Michx. Heart-leaved Creeper. 



Stem climbing, with slender branches; leaves cordate, acuminate, toothed and 

 angular; nerves beneath, pubescent; racemes dichtomons. few-flowered. 



Banks of streams. June. July. PanicUs opposite the leaves. Berries pale-red. 

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Order 37. P0LYGALACE3I. 



Plants, shrubby or herbaceous, with simple, entire, alternate or rarely opposite, 

 leaves destitute of stipules, and irregular papiliemacious flowers, with 4 to S diadcl- 

 pho'xs stameiis. Sepals 5, very irregular, distinct, 3 exterior, of which 1 is superior 

 and 2 inferior, 2 inner ones called the icings much larger, and colored like the 

 petals. Petals 3, hypogynous the anterior {led) larger than the rest, and usuallj 

 crested. Stamens 6 or S, with their filaments combined in a tube which is split on 

 the upper side, cohering more or less with the petals, free above. Anthers 1-celled, 

 opening by a terminal pore. Ovary superior, 2-celled. Style and stigma simple. 

 Fruit usually a capsule generally rounded or notched at the apex. Sssds with an 

 Attendant albumen. 



