. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 502 RHAMNACEAE. I, Berchemia scandens (Hill.) Trelease. Supple-jack. Rattan-Vine. F Rhaniinis scaiideus Hill, Hort. Kew. 453. pi. 2822. iiiiisscaiideits HillHo R. votubilis L. f. Suppl. 152. i Berchemia volubilis DC. Prodr. 2: 22. 1825. Berchemia scaiiilens Trel. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 5 : 364. 1889. A glabrous high-climbing slirub, with slender tough terete branches.
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 502 RHAMNACEAE. I, Berchemia scandens (Hill.) Trelease. Supple-jack. Rattan-Vine. F Rhaniinis scaiideus Hill, Hort. Kew. 453. pi. 2822. iiiiisscaiideits HillHo R. votubilis L. f. Suppl. 152. i Berchemia volubilis DC. Prodr. 2: 22. 1825. Berchemia scaiiilens Trel. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 5 : 364. 1889. A glabrous high-climbing slirub, with slender tough terete branches. Leaves ovate or ovate- oblong, i'-2' long, i'-l' wide, acute, acuminate, or obtuse and cuspidate at the apex, obtuse or somewhat truncate at the base, dark green above, paler beneath, their margins undulate and sometimes slightly revolute; veins 8-12 pairs; petioles slender, 2"-s" long; flowers about I*" broad, mainly in small terminal panicles; petals acute; style short; drupe 3"-4" long, equalling or shorter than its slender pedicel, its stone crustaceous. cky, Mis- 2. RHAMNUS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PL 193. 1753. Shrubs or small trees, with alternate pinnately veined and (in our species) deciduous leaves, and small axillary cymose, racemose or paniculate, perfect, dioecious, or polygamous flowers. Calyx-tube urceolate. its limb 4-s-toothed. Petals 4-5, short-clawed, mainly emar- ginate and hooded, or none. Disk free from the 3-4-celled ovary. Style 3-4-cleft. Drupe berry-like, oblong or globose, containing 2-4 separate nutlet-like stones. Seeds mainly obovoid ; endosperm fleshy; cotyledons flat or revolute. [The ancient Greek name.] About 90 species, natives of temperate and warm regions. Besides the following, some lo others occur in the western United States and British America. Type species ; Rhamnus cathartica L. Flowers dioecious or polygamous ; nutlets grooved. Petals present; flowers mainly 4-merous. Leaves broadly ovate ; branches thorny ; drupe wit
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