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Series 7. Cordifolio-Riparie. 
V. cordifolia Michx. Frost Grape. New York to 
Nebraska, and southward to the Gulf of Mexico. 
riparia Michx. Riverside Grape. Labrador to 
Florida, and West to the Rocky Mountains; This 
N 
Related to, and generally confused with, the preced- 
ing species. 
Section II. Muscap1n 
Vz rotundifolia Michx. (=V. vulpina L. Gray’s 
anual, p. 113). Muscadine Grape. preni 
and Kentucky to Arkansas and southward. 
Two other species are described, but for want of full FAFE 
their places in the adopted scheme are not assigned. The 
V. araneosa Leconte, from northern Georgia and Illinois. 
V. monticola Buckley, from Texas is is re 
by Watson (Bibl. Index N. A. Bot., p. 171) as a 
variety of V. estivalis Michx. 
The genus Parthenocissus includes seven species, one of which is 
P. quinquefolia Planch., the well-known “ Virginia Creeper,” of the 
United States, hitherto known as Ampelopsis quinquefolia Michx. 
In this genus is found, also, the Japan Creeper (Ampelopsis veitchii 
es “rl gardeners), hereafter to bear the name of P. tricuspidata 
a 
a as te se neice contains two North American 
hic the 
3.0. acida L. tgp xt Florida; C. incisa Desm., Florida to 
Teras —Charles E. 
PosraL REGULATIONS AS TO BOTANICAL SPECIMENS.—In a 
or a alee rane dated Feb. llth, 1888, to Dr. Charles R. Barnes, — 
the University of Wisconsin, the Third Assistant Postmaster- 
“Under the recent Act o ress in n relation to permisible 
n rinting and writing upon ps ara 
ere may be placed upon specimens r dried plants, or on any other 
