8. V. rotundifòlia, Michx. (MUSCADINE, BULLACE, or SOUTHERN FOX-GRAPE.) Leaves shining both sides, small, rounded with a heart-shaped base, very coarsely toothed with broad and bluntish teeth, seldom lobed; panicles small, densely flowered; berries large (½--¾´ in diameter), musky, purplish without a bloom, with a thick and tough skin, ripe early in autumn. (V. vulpina, _Man._, not _L._?)--River-banks, Md. to Ky., Mo., Kan., and southward. May.--Branchlets minutely warty. This is the original of the Scuppernong Grape, etc. 2. CÍSSUS, L. Flowers perfect or sometimes polygamous, 4-merous or (in ours) 5-merous. Petals expanding. Disk cup-shaped, surrounding the base of the ovary. Berry inedible, with scanty pulp. Seeds usually triangular-obovate.--Tendrils in our species few and mostly in the inflorescence. A vast genus, mainly tropical. (Greek name of the Ivy.) 1. C. Ampelópsis, Pers. Nearly glabrous; _leaves heart-shaped_ or truncate at the base, coarsely and sharply toothed, acuminate, not lobed; panicle small and loose; style slender; berries of the size of a pea, 1--3-seeded, bluish or greenish. (Vitis indivisa, _Willd._)--River-banks, Va. to Ill., and southward. June. 2. C. stans, Pers. Nearly glabrous, bushy and rather upright; _leaves twice pinnate or ternate_, the leaflets cut-toothed; flowers cymose; calyx 5-toothed; disk very thick, adherent to the ovary; berries black, obovate. (Vitis bipinnata, _Torr. & Gray._)--Rich soils, Va. to Mo., and southward. 3. AMPELÓPSIS, Michx. VIRGINIAN CREEPER. Calyx slightly 5-toothed. Petals concave, thick, expanding before they fall. Disk none.--Leaves digitate, with 5 (3--7) oblong-lanceolate sparingly serrate leaflets. Flower-clusters cymose. Tendrils fixing themselves to trunks or walls by dilated sucker-like disks at their tips. (Name from ἄμπελος, _a vine_, and ὄψις, _appearance_.) 1. A. quinquefòlia, Michx. A common woody vine, in low or rich grounds, climbing extensively, sometimes by rootlets as well as by its disk-bearing tendrils, blossoming in July, ripening its small blackish berries in October. Also called _American Ivy_, and still less appropriately, _Woodbine_. Leaves turning bright crimson in autumn. ORDER 29. SAPINDÀCEÆ. (SOAPBERRY FAMILY.) _Trees or shrubs, with simple or compound leaves, mostly unsymmetrical and often irregular flowers; the 4--5 sepals and petals imbricated in æstivation; the 5--10 stamens inserted on a fleshy (perigynous or hypogynous) disk; a 2--3-celled and -lobed ovary, with 1--2 (rarely more) ovules in each cell; and the embryo_ (except Staphylea) _curved or convolute, without albumen._--A large and diverse order. SUBORDER I. Sapindeæ. Flowers (often polygamous) mostly unsymmetrical and irregular. Stamens commonly more numerous than the petals, rarely twice as many. Ovules 1 or 2 in each cell. Embryo curved or convolute, rarely straight; cotyledons thick and fleshy.--Leaves alternate or sometimes opposite, without stipules, mostly compound.