. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 4. GRAPE FAMILY. 511 S-7- Flowers perfect, or polygamo-monoecious, in compound cymes or panicles. Petals 5, spreading. Hypogynous disk obsolete or wanting in our species. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-ceIled; ovules 2 in each cavity; style short, thick. Berry 1-4-seeded, the flesh thin, not edible. About 10 species, natives of eastern North America and Asia, the fol
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 4. GRAPE FAMILY. 511 S-7- Flowers perfect, or polygamo-monoecious, in compound cymes or panicles. Petals 5, spreading. Hypogynous disk obsolete or wanting in our species. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-ceIled; ovules 2 in each cavity; style short, thick. Berry 1-4-seeded, the flesh thin, not edible. About 10 species, natives of eastern North America and Asia, the following typical. Besides the'foUowing, another occurs in Texas. I. Parthenocissus quinquefolia (L.) Planch. Virginia Creeper. False Grape. American Ivy. Fig. 2842. Hedera quinquefolia L. Sp. PI. 202. 1753. Vitis quinquefolia Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 2: 135. 1793. Ampelopsis quinquefolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 160. 1803. Parthenocissus quinquefolia Planch, in DC. Men. Phan. 5: Part 2, 448. 1887. P. vitacea A. S. Hitchc. Spring Fl. Manhattan 26. 1894. High-climbing or trailing, glabrous or pubes- cent. Tendrils usually numerous, and often pro- vided with terminal adhering expansions, the vine sometimes supported also by aerial roots; leaves petioled, digitately 5-foliolate (rarely 7-foliolate) ; leaflets stalked, oval, elliptic, or oblong-lanceolate ; 2'-6' long, acute or acuminate, narrowed at the base, coarsely toothed, at least above the middle, pale beneath, dark green above, glabrous or some- what pubescent; panicles ample, erect or spread- ing in fruit; berries blue, about 6" in diameter, usually 2-3-seeded; peduncles and pedicels red. In woods and thickets, Quebec to Assiniboia, Mis- souri, Florida, Texas and Mexico. Bahamas ; Cuba. July. Fruit ripe in October. The foliage turns deep red in autumn. The species consists of numerous races, diiifering in pubescence, serration of leaflets and in the tendrils. Five-finger-ivy or -creeper. Five- leaf-ivy. Erroneously called woodbi
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