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PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
Germ surrounded with a glandulous disk. 
Berry 2-celled, 2 to 4-seeded. (Stamina 
sometimes 4.) — -Nutt. 
Hederacea. 1, C. Stem radicant, climbing; leaves digitate, by- 
fives ; panicles compound, opposite the leaves ; 
nectary wanting? 
Ampelopsis quinquefolia, Mich. 
Hedera quinquefolia, L. Hort. ClilF. 
Vitis Hederacea, Willd. 
V. quinquefolia, Lamark and Smith. 
Icon. Corn. Canad. t. 100. (Pursh.) 
Common Creeper, 
r 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, strikii^gly 
beautiful. It grows wild along the fences bordering sandy 
fields, in Jersey, just opposite the city. On the rocks of the 
Wissahickon, and elsewhere, June. 
114 ITEA. Gen. pi 381. Mich. Gen. pi 1. p. 156. 
f Rhododendra- ) 
Calix small, 5- cleft. Petals 5, linear, reflexly 
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. 
virginica. 1. I. leavcs oblong, Serrated, spikes pubescent. — 
Willd. 
Icon. Dubam. arb. 1. 1. 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, h. June, 
