252 General Notes. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or pseudo-hermaphrodite; petals 5-7,. 
thick, spreading; disk annular; berries 1-2—3—4 seeded; climbing 
shrubs with trifoliate, unifoliate, undivided or palmatilobed leaves. 
ars IX. Rhoicissus. 
Flowers hermaphrodite ; petals 4, spreading or sometimes coher- 
ing; style subulate, slender; disk cup-like; berries 1-2-3-4 seeded ; 
creeping, erect or climbing shrubs with undivided, lobed or com- 
pound deaves......... ii... X. Cissus. 
The species of Vitis are arranged in two sections, viz., I. Euvitis 
and II. Muscadinia, the former containing seven series. The dis- 
position of our North American species under this arrangement is- 
as follows — : 
Section I. Euviris. 
Series 1. Labruscee. 
V. labrusca L. Fox Grape. Atlantic States. 
Series 2. Labruscoideæ. 
V. candicans Engelm. Mustang Grape. Texas. 
_ V. caribæa D. C. South Florida. 
Series 3. Æstivales. 
V. œstivalis Michx. Summer Grape. Atlantic States- 
and Mississippi Valley. 
V. lincecumii Buckl. (=V. estivalis Michx., var. lincecu- 
mii Engelm). Post Oak Grape. Texas. 
Series 4. Leucobryæ. 
V. californica Benth. California. 
V. arizonica Engelm. Arizona. 
Series 5. Cinerascentes. 
V. berlandieri Planch. (= V. monticola Durand in Bull. 
c. d’Acclim., ix., p. 434,— V. monticola Engelm. in 
Bush. Cat.— V. estivalis A. Gray in Plante Lind- 
heimerianæ). Texas and New Mexico. ‘ 
V. cinerea Engelm. (= Vitis estivalis Michx. var.? em- 
erea Engelm. in Gray’s Manual, p. 679). Missis- 
sippi Valley from Illinois southward. 
V. coriacea Shuttl. (=V. caribea? in Chapman’s Flora 
of the Southern States.— V. candicans in Watson s- 
Bibliographical Index to N. A. Botany). South 
Florida to Louisiana, 
Series 6. Rupestres. . 
V. rupestris Scheele. Sugar Grape. Tennessee, Mis- 
souri and southwestward. 
