. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Botany. 138 POPULAR FLORA. 1. European GnAPE. Flowers all perfect; leaves deeply and sharply lobed. Cult, in several varie- ties, viz. Sweetwater Grape, Black Hamburg, &c. V. mnifera. 2. Northern Fox-Grape. Leaves very woolly when young, remaining rusty-woolly beneath; ber< ries large, purple or amber-colored. — Improved varieties of this, without the foxy taste and the tough
. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Botany. 138 POPULAR FLORA. 1. European GnAPE. Flowers all perfect; leaves deeply and sharply lobed. Cult, in several varie- ties, viz. Sweetwater Grape, Black Hamburg, &c. V. mnifera. 2. Northern Fox-Grape. Leaves very woolly when young, remaining rusty-woolly beneath; ber< ries large, purple or amber-colored. — Improved varieties of this, without the foxy taste and the tough pulp, are the Isabella and the Catawba Grapes. V. Labrusca. 8- Summer Grape. Leaves with loose cobwebby down underneath, smoothish when old ; panicles of fertile flowers very long and slender; berries small, ripe with first frost. V. cestivalis. 4. Frost Grape. Leaves thin, heart-shaped, never woolly, not shining, sharply and coarsely toothed, little or not at all lobed ; panicles loose ; berries blue or black with a bloom, sour, ripening late. Common along river-banks, &c. V. cordifdUa. 6. Muscadine or Southern Fox-Grape. Bark of the stem close, not thrown off in loose strips, as in the others; leaves round-heart-shaped, shining, not downy, very coarsely toothed; panicles small, with crowded flowers; berry large, musky, with a very thick and tough skin. A variety is the Scnppernong Grape. Common S. Virginia-Creeper. AmpeUpsis. Petal's 5, thick, opening before they fall. Leaves palmate with 5 leaflets {Fig. 74). Berries small, blackish. A very common tall- climbing vine, wild and culti- vated. A. quinquefdlia. V. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York, Ivison & Phinney
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