ABSTRACT
The first record of these vines in the New World is Jacques Philippe Cornutus’s Edera quinquefolia canadensis (five-leaved Canadian ivy), published in his book Canadensium plantarum…historia of 1635. Linnaeus knew this and several other sources. He had studied live plants at the Hortus Cliffortianus. Perhaps because he was influenced by Cornutus and others, he called the vines Hedera quinquefolia.
