WATSON—Plants of Bernalillo County 
29. AMPELIDACEAE. Vine Famtry. 
Shrubs climbing bv tendrills, with alternate pal- 
mately-veined or compound leaves, tendrils and clus- 
ters or small greenish flowers opposite the leaves. 
Palnts clumbing by the Py ished ai pam 27 ten- 
drils, - - (1) virts. 
Climbing by the nahshon . the dilated tips of the 
tendril branches, - - -(2) AMPELOPSIS. 
1. vitis, Tourn, Geis 
v. aRizonica, Hngelm. (Arizona grape.) Branches 
angular; leaves cordate, obscurely if at all lobed, cot- 
tony when young, glabrous when older, thick, rigid and 
rough. Berries small or middle-sized. Common in the 
more mesophytic canons. 
27. amprtopsis, Mt. Virginia Creeper, 
American Ivy. 
A. QuinquEFotIA, Mz. Leaflets mostly 5. Com- 
monly planted and rarely wild in the mountains. Ti- 
jeras Canon, climbing over rocks. (Look for A. hepta- 
phylla with smaller, six or seven leaflets. It may 
grow here. 
30. RHAMNEAE, suckTHorN FAMILY. 
Shrubs or small trees with simple undivided leaves, 
small and often caducous stipules, small flowers, a 
conspicuous disk lining the calyx tube; valvate calyx. 
cranotuus, L. New Jersey Tea, Red Root. 
Shrubs, spinose or unarmed (in ours), with alter- 
nate leaves, three-nerved, and small but showy white 
flowers, in dense clusters (racemes in ours.) 
Cc. FENDLERI, Gray, Silky pubescent, leaves narrow- 
—ly-oblong to elliptic, 1-3 to 1 inch long, entire and 
somewhat coriaceous. Mountains in the Quescus-un- 
dulatus jamesu Society especially. July. 
31. CELASTRINEAE, starr TREE FAMILY. 
Low shrub, with small, dull-colored flowers, and 
stamens inserted on a broad disk, which lines the calyx- 
tube. 
pacuystTiMaA, Raf. Western Strawberry Bush 
Calyx with a short tube, and 4 rounded lobes; petals 
four; ovary free, 2-celled; style very short. Seeds en- 
closed in a white membranaceous aril. Low evergreen 
shrub, leaves smooth, opposite, very shortly petioled, 
serrate or serrulate. ‘Flowers green,” but in ours 
quite reddish. 
p. myrstniTEs, Raf. Leaves ovate to oblanceolate, 
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