1900] 
Kellerman — Ampelopsis Cordata 
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The published statements as to the distribution of Ampelopsis 
cordata are not uniform. Riddell, in his synopsis of the Western 
Flora, says it occurslin the Alleghany Mountains west to Arkansas. 
Torrey and Gray, in the Flora of North America, Vol. 1, under the 
name of Vitis indivisa, give its distribution as Southern States west 
to Louisiana and Arkansas. Wood using the same name in his 
class-book, says Southern States to St. Louis. In Gray’s Manual, 
last edition, the plant is given under the name of Cissus ampelopsis 
with the statement that it occurs in Virginia to Illinois and South- 
ward. The occurrence as noted by Britton and Brown in the Illus- 
trated Flora, makes the species still more decidedly southern, 
namely, southern Virginia to Florida, west to Illinois, Kansas and 
Texas. Prof. Stanley Coulter, in a Catalogue of the Flowering Plants 
and Ferns indigenous to Indiana, published in 1899 in the 24th An- 
nual Report of the Department of Geology and Natural Resources of 
Indiana, says this species occurs “ in the central and southern 
counties of Indiana in swamps and moist woods.” 
In the fifth edition of Gray’s Manual the range of this Ampelop- 
sis (under the name of Vitis indivisa) was given as “West Virginia, 
Ohio and southward.” In answer to an inquiry as to what in the 
Gray Herbarium was perhaps the basis for the reference to the Ohio 
distribution, Mr. Merritt L. Fernald kindly wrote me as follows : — 
“ I find in the herbarium a specimen of Cissus ampelopsis marked 
‘Ohio’. It is one of t lie old Torrey and Gray specimens and no fur- 
ther data are given.” 
Dr. Millspaugh lists this species as Cissus ampelopsis in the 
Flora of West Virginia and adds on the authority of Mertz and 
Guttenberg that it also occurs in Ohio, near Wheeling. Upon in- 
quiry of Supt. Mertz, I learn that his notes of work upwards of 
twenty years ago contain no mention of this species at Wheeling- 
West Virginia, or at Bellaire, Ohio. He further informs me that 
what was taken for this Ampelopsis at Bellaire was probably Vitis 
cordifolia, three forms of which were found growing on the islands 
of the Ohio River near Wheeling. Of these lie adds in a letter to 
the writer, “ I think we probably decided that one was V. indivisa; 
but I feel sure that it was not and you are probably the first to find 
it in Ohio.” 
It will be observed that the distribution as noted by Professor 
Stanley Coulter extends its range still further northward than my 
Ohio station. It is likely that its occurrence still further northward 
in Ohio may be detected by assiduous collectors, 
I wish to say a word concerning the ornamental character of this 
native vine. The foliage is bright green and very handsome. A 
figure of a single leaf is shown in Plate 1, figure 2. This is reduced 
from aphotograph taken with the leaf itself used as a negative. I have 
never detected a fungous attack or insect depredation on the leaves. 
