422 VITACE^. Vitis. 



Cat. ed. 3, 18 ; Munson, Traus. Am. Hort. Soc. iii. 132, Proc. Am. Pom. Soc. xx. 97, Wild 

 Grapes N. A. 9, Gard. & For. iii. 474, Am. Gard. xii. 659, & Rev. Vit. iii. 159 ; Foex, Vitic. 

 45 ; Viala & Ravaz, Vignes Am. 102. — Sandy banks, low hills and mountains, District of 

 Columbia and S. Pennsylvania to Tennessee, Missouri, and S. W. Texas. 



Var. dissecta, Eggekt, in lierb., is a form with more ovate leaves and very long 

 teeth, and a strong tendency towards irregular lobing. — Missouri. 



++ ++ Leaves ovate in outline, with a mostly well marked sinus. 

 = Diaphragms (in the nodes) thin : young shoots not red : leaves not deeply lobed. 



V. monticola, Buckley. (Sweet Mountain Grape.) A slender trailing or climbing 

 plant (reaching 20 to 30 feet in height) with very long and slender branches, the young 

 growth angled and floccose (sometimes glabrous), the diaphragms plane and rather thin : 

 leaves small and thin (rarely reaching 4 inches in width and generally from 2 to 3 inches 

 liigh), cordate-ovate to triangular-ovate, with the basal sinus ranging from nearly truncate- 

 oblique to normally inverted-U-shaped, rather dark green but glossy above and grayish 

 green below, when young more or less pubescent or even arachnoid below, the blade either 

 prominently notclied on either upper margin or almost lobed, the point acute and often pro- 

 longed, margins irregularly notched with smaller teeth than in V. rupestris : clusters short 

 and broad, much branched; berries medium or small (averaging about ^ inch in diameter), 

 black or light colored, seedy, sweet ; seeds large (about \ inch long) and broad. — Pat. Off. 

 Rep. 1861, 485, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1861, 450, & 1870, 136; Planch. 1. c. 367; Munson, 

 Wild Grapes N. A. 13, Gard. & For. iii. 475, Am. Gard. xii. 586, Rev. Vit. iii. 81, & v. 166, 

 f. 54, 55 ; Foex, Vitic. 44 ; Viala & Ravaz, Vignes Am. 123. V. Texana, Munson, Proc. Soc. 

 Prom. Agr. Sci. 1887, 59. V. Foexeana, Planch. 1. c. 616. — Limestone hills in S. W. Texas. 

 This species has been the subject of much misunderstanding. Buckley's description seems 

 to be confused, but his specimens of V. monticola (in herb. Acad. Philad.) are clearly the 

 small-leaved and glaln-ous species here designated. See, also, Viala, " Une Mission Viticole 

 en Amerique," 1889, 67 ; and V. Berlandieri, below. 



V. VUlpina, L. (Riverbank or Frost Grape.) A vigorous tall-climbing plant, with a 

 bright green cast to the foliage, normally glabrous young slioots, large stipules, and plane 

 very thin diaphragms : leaves thin, medium to large, cordate-ovate, with a broad but usually 

 an evident sinus, mostly showing a tendency (wliich is sometimes pronounced) to 3 lobes, 

 generally glabrous and bright green below, but the veins and their angles often pubescent, 

 the margins variously deeply and irregularly toothed and sometimes cut, the teeth and the 

 long point prominently acute : fertile flowers bearing reclining or curved stamens, and the 

 sterile oues long and erect or ascending stamens : clusters medium to large on short pedun- 

 cles, branched (often very compound), the flowers sweet-scented ; berries small (less than ^ 

 inch in diameter), purple-black with a lieavy blue bloom, sour and usually austere, generally 

 ripening late (even after frost) ; seeds ratlier small and distinctly pyriform. — Spec. i. 203, 

 in part (see Britton in Bailey, Am. Gard. xiv. 353) ; Bailey, Am. Gard. xiv. 353, with plate ; 

 Rusby, Mem. Torr. Club, v. 221 ; Munson, Rev. Vit. iii. 161. V. riparia, Michx. Fl. ii. 231 ; 

 Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2429 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 244 ; Planch. 1. c. 352 ; Millardet, Vignes Am. 

 159, t. 18, 19, 23 ; Engelm. Bull. Torr. Club, vi. 233, & Bushberg Cat. ed. 3, 18 ; Munson, 

 Trans. Am. Hort. Soc. iii. 131, Proc. Am. Pom. Soc. xx. 97, Wild Grapes N. A. 9, Gard. & 

 For. iii. 474, & Am. Gard. xii. 659; Foiix, Vitic. 49; Viala & Ravaz, Vignes Am. 132. 

 V. serotina, Bartram, Med. Rep. hex. 2, i. 22. V. odoratlssima, Donn, Hort. Cantab, ed. 6, 

 62. ? V. lUiiioeiis/s, & V. Missonriensis, Prince, Vine, 184, 185, '? V. tenuifolia, LeConte, 

 Proc. Acad. Philad. vi. 271, & Flora, 1853, 707. V. cordifolin, var. riparia, Gray, Man. 

 ed. 5, 113. V. vufpina, var. riparia, Regel, Act. Hort. Petrop. ii. 395. — New Brunswick, 

 ace. to Macoun, to N. Dakota, Kansas, and Colorado, and south to W. Virginia, Missouri, 

 and N. W. Texas; the couunonest grape in the Northern States west of New England, 

 particularly abundant along streams. Variable in the flavor and maturity of the fruit. 

 Forms with petioles and under surfaces of leaves pubescent sometimes occur. Occasionally 

 hybridizes with V. Lahrusca eastward, the hybrid being known by the tomento.se young 

 shoots and unfolding leaves, and the darker foliage which is marked with rusty tomentum 

 along the veins of the less j.agged leaves. 



Var. preecox, Bailey, n. comb., is the June Grape of Missouri, the little sweet fruits 

 ripening in July. — V. riparia, var. pnccox, Engelm ace. to Bailey, Am. Gard. xiv 353. 



