70 vii.w i..K. (vim; family.) 



# # # # # Flower* p er fe ct, in an open panicle, the pedicels mostly abortive, elongat- 

 ing, and ptumoae: drupe smooth. 

 9. R. cotinoides, Nutt Smooth ; leaves simple, membranaceous, oval, 

 obtuse, entire, acute at the base, the upper ones Long-petiolcd ; panicle nearly 

 sessile, narrow, with erect branches; flowers minute. — Interior of Alabama, 

 Buckley. Leaves, with the petiole, .'*'-4' long. 



Order 38. VITACEiE. (Vine Family.) 



Climbing shrubs, -with watery juice, opposite stipulate leaves, and small 

 greenish flowers in panicled clusters opposite the leaves. — Calyx minute, 

 truncated. Petals 4— 5, hypogynous or perigynous, valvate in the bud, 

 deciduous. Stamens 4 - 5, opposite the petals: anthers introrse. Ovary 

 2-celled, with 2 ereel collateral ovules in each cell. Style short or none: 

 stigma slightly 2-lobed. Berry I— 4-seeded. Seeds anatropous, bony. 

 Embryo minute at the base of hard or fleshy albumen. Radicle inferior. 

 — Leaves simple or compound. Tendrils opposite the leaves. Flowers 

 perfect or polygamous, 



1. VITIS, L. Vine. Grape. 



Petals (listincr, or remaining united at the apex and separating at the ba<e, 

 inserted into a 4-5dobcd or cup-shaped disk which surrounds the ovary. 

 § 1. Cissus. — Floicers perfect: petals and stamens 4-5: style conspicuous: 

 stigma minute: leave* simple or compound. 



1. V. bipinnata, Torr. & Gray. Leaves bipinnate, smoothish; leaflets 

 small, ovate, sharply toothed; flowers somewhat cymose, on a long forking 

 peduncle ; petals 4-5, united at the apex, separating at the base ; style conical ; 

 disk 4 - 5-lobed ; berry 2-^-4-seeded. (Ampelop6is bipinnata, Mich.r.) — Margin 

 of Bwamps, Florida and northward. June and July. — Tendrils none. Leaflets 

 1' long. Berry small, black. 



2. V. acida, L. Branches geniculate ; leaves trifoliolate, thick and rigid; 

 leaflets small., cuneate-obovate, sharply toothed at the apex; flowers in com- 

 pound umbels; petals 4, united at the apex, separating at the base; style slen- 

 der; disk CUP-shaped, entire; berry black, 1 -seeded. — Key West -Tendrils 



Btoul and elongated. Leaflets V long. Branchteta and peduncles Battened 



and elongated. Leaves and parts Of the panicle separating in drying, as also in 



the next Bp 



8. V. incisa, Nutt Smooth; stem climbing, warty; leaves trifoliolate, 

 very thick and fleshy; leaflets stalked, wedge-shaped and entire near the base, 

 the lateral ones 2-lobed, the middle 8-lobed, all mucronate-toothed or serrate; 

 berry i purple) globose o\ ate, nodding, pointed with the conspicuous slender style, 



,|. _San.lv shores Of St Vincent's Maud, West Florida and westward. 

 Fruiting in Boveraber. — Stem 6°-12° long. Leaflets l'-3' long. Panicles 

 Berry 5 ' - <»" long, Flowers not Men. 



