Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory . ee p. 253).] (2) Leaves palmate, digitately 5-foliolate, ex-stipulate, with tendrils opposed to some ofthem. Ampelopsis hederacea, Mchx. Virginian Creeper (). Tendril climber, the digitate foliage brilliant crimsonand scarlet in autumn. Leaflets 5, or sometimes 3, ovate-lanceolate, ovate, oblong, or obovate and often unequal;coarsely mucronate-serrate, except at the entire base, onshort petiolules, apex slightly acuminate. Glabrous andshining. Leaflets 3—12 x 2—5 cm. Leaves turning all shades of purple and yellow r
Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory . ee p. 253).] (2) Leaves palmate, digitately 5-foliolate, ex-stipulate, with tendrils opposed to some ofthem. Ampelopsis hederacea, Mchx. Virginian Creeper (). Tendril climber, the digitate foliage brilliant crimsonand scarlet in autumn. Leaflets 5, or sometimes 3, ovate-lanceolate, ovate, oblong, or obovate and often unequal;coarsely mucronate-serrate, except at the entire base, onshort petiolules, apex slightly acuminate. Glabrous andshining. Leaflets 3—12 x 2—5 cm. Leaves turning all shades of purple and yellow reds, toscarlet and crimson, in autumn. Venation pinnate, the midrib stout below and thinningout above, somewhat sinuous. Secondaries strong, atangles of 45—60°, about ^ the length of the midrib apart,branching and forking as they approach the margin, andshowing some loops, ultimately branching into the leaving the secondaries at acute angles outside, 176 VIRGINIAN CREEPER obtuse inside, and forming cross-ties. Meshes large,irregular and Fig. 42. Shoot of Avipelopsis, Virginian Creeper, climbing by meansof branch-tendrils, some of which twine round nails, &c. (b), others fastentheir tips to the bricks by means of sucker-like dilations (a and c); d ande = young tendrils, p. 175 (Sa). GUELDER ROSE 177 II. LEAVES SIMPLE : ENTIRE, TOOTHED OR LOBED,BUT IN THE LATTER CASE THE DIVISIONSNEVER EXTEND QUITE TO THE MIDRIB. A. LEAVES OPPOSITE, OR RARELY IN WHORLS OF [For B seeTHREE OR FOUR. P* 203-^ (1) Leaves stipulate. [For (2) seep. 180.] [See note, p. 161.] (a) Leaves broad ovate-rhomboid, 3—5 palmatelylobed; with sessile glands on the top of thepetiole, and linear fringe-like stipules below. Viburnum Opulus, L. Guelder Rose (Fig. 43).Glabrous shrub. Leaves about 6—9 x 5—8 cm. or some-times larger, rounded ovate and tri-lobed, palmatifid; thelobes large, triangular or triangular-ovate, and curvedoutwards, acute or acuminate, and coarsely and unequ
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