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leaves on short petioles; spikes slender; drupe dark purple. Sandy soil 

 along the coast. Spring. 



110. Vitaceae, Grape Family. 

 Climbing shrubs with opposite and alternate leaves, 

 and small greenish flowers in an axillary inflorescence; 

 calyx truncate or obsolete, with or without disk; petals 

 4-5. perigynous or hypogynous, often caducous; stamens 

 4-5. opposite the petals; ovary 2-celled, or 3-6 celled; style 

 short or none, stigma capitate or peltate; ovules 1-2 in 

 each cell; fruit a berry. 



1. Calyx-disk present; leaves simple or compound. ------ 2 



1. Calyx-disk wanting; leaves digitately 5-7 foliate; — climbing vine with 



forking tendrils and alternate leaves; flowers in corymbs; pet- 

 als and stamens 5, ovary 2-celled. the cells 2-ovuled; berries in- 

 edible. - Parthenocissus, Virginia Creeper, American Ivy 

 P. (Ampelopsis) quinquefolia. Tendrils adhering by disks; leaflets 5; berries 

 deep blue, sometimes quite pulpy. Low grounds and planted. Early 

 Summer. 



2. Petals cohering, caducous; bark shreddy, tendrils forking; — vines 



with alternate leaves, simple or palmately lobed, angled, or 

 coarsely toothed; flowers with minute calyx, caducous corolla, 

 and exserted stamens which alternate with the lobes or glands 

 of the calyx-disk; berries juicy, mostly edible, - Vitis, Crape 



V. cordif olia, Frost-Crape, Chicken-grape. Leaves ovate in outline, or 3-lobed 

 near the apex, coarsely toothed, cordate at the base, long-pet ioled; panicles 

 drooping; berries black, acid. Thickets. Early Summer. 



V. vulpina, Muscadine. Leaves glossy, 3-lobed and irregularly toothed, teeth 

 and lobes acuminate, cordate or truncate at the base; stipules commonly 

 ample; flowers in panicles; fruit dark purple with copious bloom and sour 

 pulp. Riverbanks. Early Summer. — A form with small leaves, and very 

 sour small berries is called Mustang-grape. 



2. Petals distinct, spreading. -------- -.3 



3. Climbing vines with few tendrils and alternate, lobed or pinnate ly 



compound leaves; flowers in flat cymes; petals and stamens 

 mostly 5, the latter exserted; berries inedible, - - - Ampelopsi s 

 A. arborea (bipinnata), Pepper-vine. Few forking tendrils; leaves bipinnat e> 

 cymes long-peduncled but shorter than the leaves; lisk surpassed by t^ e 

 ovary; berries dark purple. Margins of swamps. Summer. 

 3. Climbing vines with strong tendrils; leaves alternate. 3-foliate or 

 3-parted; flowers in small cymes; petals and stamens mostly 4; 



berries inedible. -.------. Ciss a3 



C. acida. Shoestring vine. Ten Irils 3 m. and more long. Cult. 

 The principal cultivated Florida grapes are: the James, with a very la r g e 

 nearly black berry; the Metsch, with a medium sired purple berry, and the Scupper, 

 nong. with a greenish-amber large berry; fruit August and September. 



111. Malvaceae, Mallow Family. 



Herbs and shrubs with palmately-veined, alternate. 



stipulate leaves, and regular, perfect flowers; sepals 5, 



