XXX. 2. THE VIRGINIAN CREEPER. A7I 
The flowers of all the wild grapes have a pleasant fragrance, 
not unlike that of mignonette: of this species the flowers are 
still more fragrant. 
XXX. 2 THE CREEPER. AMPELO’PSIS. Michaux. 
A genus of a few species, which are found in Africa, in Java, 
but mostly in the United States. Calyx entire. Petals 5, dis- 
tinct, spreading, reflected. Ovary conical, not immersed in the 
disk, 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell; style short. Berry 
2-celled; the cells 1- or 2-seeded. 
Te Vircinian Creeper. A. guinguefolia. Michaux. 
Figured in Abbott’s Insects of Georgia, I, Plate 30. 
This is the most ornamental plant of its genus, and has been 
extensively cultivated in this country and in Europe. It re- 
commends itself by its hardiness, the rapidity of its growth and 
the luxuriance and beauty of its foliage. In its native woods it 
climbs rocks and trees to a great height. In cultivation, it is 
often made to cover walls of houses forty or fifty feet high, — 
clinging by rootlets which proceed from its tendrils. Its recent 
shoots are green or purplish brown, with long orange dots. 
The older stalks are covered with a sort of net-work of cuticle, 
the meshes of a uniform size, except that they enlarge at the 
axils of the branches. Leaves on very long, channelled, purple 
or crimson leaf-stalks; of 5 leaflets palmately arranged. Leaf- 
lets irregular, obovate, wedge-shaped below, acuminate, with a 
few mucronate teeth above and sometimes a little below the 
middle, smooth, nearly of the same deep green on both surfaces, 
turning purple, deep red, or crimson, early inautumn. Tendrils 
opposite the leaves or branches. As in the vine, the stem seems 
to be formed by the successive development of axillary buds. 
Stem often strangulated or nearly cut off by a tendril. This 
plant continues to flower and attract the humble bee and the 
honey bee through July and August. The flowers are of a 
reddish green. The calyx is an even or slightly waved border, 
encircling the base. ‘The petals, which are perhaps true sepals, 
are completely reflexed and slipper-shaped, reddish, with a yel- 
