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The vines can be propagated from cuttings only with difficulty. The 

 species is adapted to a hot, dry climate and limestone land. It is found to 

 be very resistant to ph\'lloxera and is sometimes recommended as a stock 

 for Vinifera but is not generally considered as valuable in this respect as 

 Berlandieri. It is without value for its fruit and is of no horticultural 

 importance to the eastern American grape-grower. 



S. VITIS RIPARIA' Michx. 



I. Tournefort, /);i/. Rci Herb., 1:613. 1700. V. C.\n.\densis aceris folio. 2. (?) Linnaeus, 

 Sp. PL, 1753:203. v. vuLPiN.\. 3. (?) Walter, 1788:242. V. vulpi.\.\. 4. (?) Willdenow, 1:1 181. 

 1797. v. vuLPiN'.'V. 5. Michau.x, 2:231. 1803. 6. (?) Bartram, Dom. Enc, 5:291. 1804. V. 

 serotina; Winter grape. 7. Push, 1:169. 1S14. V. odoratissima. 8. Xuttall, 1818:143. 9. 

 Elliott, 2:688. 1824. Winter grape? 10. Torrey, Fl. of .Y. & M. Sta., 1826:121. 11. Rafin- 

 esque, 1830:15. River grape; Bermuda vine; Mignonette vine. 12. lb., 1830:16. V. odoratissima. 

 13. Prince, 1830:193. V. odoratissima; Sweet scented. 14. Torrey, Fl. of N. Y., 1:147. i843- 

 Winter grape. 15. Le Conte, Trans. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 6:273. 1853. V. dimidiata. 16. 

 lb., 6:272. v. vulpina; 1'. aestivalis of .some; 1'. cordifolia of many; V. callosa; V. hyemalis; 

 Winter grape. 17. Buckley, U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt., 1861:483. V. cordifolia, var. riparia. 18. 

 Saunders, U. S. D. A. Rpt., 1869:82, 85, 87. V. cordifolia, var. riparia. 19. Engelmann, 

 Mo. Ent. Rpt., 1872:61. 20. lb., Bush. Cat., 1883:10. 11, 12. 14, iS. Riverside grape. 21. Bush, 

 lb.. 1883:23. 22. Munson, Am. Pom. Soe. Rpt., 1885:97. 98. Riverside grape. 23. lb... Am. Hort. 

 Soc. Rpt., iSSsu.^i. Riverside grape. 24. lb., Soc. Prom. Ag. Sei. Rpt., 1887 -.sc). Riverside grape. 

 25. Planchon, De Candolle's Mon. Phan., 5:323, 352. 1887. V. vidpina; V. incisa; V. inter- 

 media; V. odoratissima; V. Virginiana; \'. Canadejisis aceris folio. 26. Munson, U. S. D. A. Pom. 

 Bui., 3:9. 1890. 27. lb., Gar. and For., 3:474. 1890. 28. Bailey, Am. Card., 14:353. 1893. 

 fig. V. vulpina; r. riparia. 29. Husmann, 1895:175. V. cordifolia. 30. lb., 1895:188. 31. 

 Britton and Brown, 2:410. 1897. fig. V. vulpi.va; T. riparia; \'. cordifolia, var. riparia; River- 

 side grape; Siveet scented grape. 32. Bailey, Gray's Syn. Fl., 1:422. 1897. V. vvlpinw Riverbank; 

 Frost; V. riparia; V. serotina; V. odoratissima; V. Illinoensis? ; V. Missouricnsis? ; V. tenuifolia? ; 

 V. cordifolia, var. riparia; V . vulpina, var. riparia. 33. Munson. Tex. Sta. Bui., 56:218, 219. 230, 



' The description of Vitis vulpina by Linna;-us is so meager, including the leaves only, that for 

 many years botanists were in doubt as to the species intended. Muhlenberg was the single excep- 

 tion when he gave Linnaeus' Vulpina and Michaux's Cordifolia as synonymous. Whether he did this 

 from knowledge, or whether it was by chance, it is impossible to say. He states no reasons and 

 consequently received no following among other botanists. Elliott supposed that Linnaeus intended 

 to describe the southern Rotundifolia and this view seems to have been generally accepted. 



In the late eighties or early nineties, Planchon first, and later Britton, by referring to Linnaeus' 

 specimens, determined that the latter's Vulpina was the same as Riparia, and in accordance with 

 botanical rules, presented the name Vulpina as the correct name for this species. Bailey, however, 

 states (Ev. Xat. Fr., 1898:102) that he found two specimens in the Linnaeus collection labeled Vul- 

 pina, one of v/hich was the true Riparia and the other Cordifolia. Since a change of the name would 

 bring confusion to more than ninety years of botanical and horticultural literature, it seems inadvis- 

 able to make one on such contradictory evidence. 



