118 PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 



Germ surrounded with a glandulous disk. 

 Berry 2-celled, 2 to 4-seeded. (Stamina 

 sometimes 4.) — JVutt. 



Hederacea. \ % C. stem radicant, climbing; leaves digitate, by 

 fives ; panicles compound, opposite the leaves ; 

 nectary wanting ? 



Ampelopsis quinquefolia, Mich. 



Hedera quinquefolia, L. Hort. Cliff. 



Vitis Hederacea, Willd. 



V. quinquefolia, Lamark and Smith. 

 Icon. Corn. Canad. t. 100. (Parsh.) 



Common Creeper. 



Nothing is better known than this Creeper. It covers whole 

 sides of our houses creeping up to chimney tops, and forms 

 a beautiful clothing for blank, or old stone walls. The va- 

 riegated hues of its leaves, a month previous to defoliation, 

 in the autumn, render the plant, at that time, strikingly 

 beautiful. It grows wild along the fences bordering sandy 

 fields, in Jersey, just opposite the city. On the rocks of the 

 Wissahickon, and elsewhere. 13. June. 



114. ITEA. Gen. pi 381. Mich. Gen. pi. 1. p. 156. 

 ( ' Rhododendra-J 



Calix small, 5- cleft. Petals 5, linear, refiexly 

 spreading, inserted upon the calix. Stigma 

 capitate, 2-lobed. Capsule 2-celled, 2-valv- 

 ed, many-seeded ; the seeds attached to the 

 inflected margins of the valves. — Nutt. 



virgiiiica. l. I. leaves oblong, serrated, spikes pubescent. — 

 Willd. 



Icon. Duham. arb. 1. t. 126. (Pursh.) 



A shrub, from four to eight feet high, with spikes of white 

 flowers. On the borders of the damp shady woods on the road 

 to Woodbury, and in the swampy thickets, a short distance 

 from the ferry-house, opposite Gloucester Point, Jersey Not 

 very frequent, though abundant in these places. \i . June, 

 July. 



