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V. Treleasei, Munson, in herb. Plant shrubby and much branched, climbing little, the small 

 and mostly short (generally shorter than the leaves) tendrils deciduous the first year unless 

 finding support, interuodes short, the diapliragms twice thicker (about Jg inch) than in F. 

 vulpinu and shallow-biconcave : stipules less than one c[uarter as large as in V. vuhiina ; 

 leaves large and green, very broad-ovate or even reniform-ovate (often wider than long), 

 thin, glabrous and shining on both surfaces, the basal sinus very broad and o])en and making 

 no distinct angle with the petiole, the margin unequally notch-tootlied (not jagged as in V. 

 vulpina) and indistinctly 3-lobed, the apex much shorter than in V. vnlpina : fertile flowers 

 with very short recurved stamens, sterile with ascending stamens : cluster small (2 to 3 inches 

 long) ; the berries | inch or less thick, black with a thin bloom, ripening three weeks later 

 than V. vulpina when groAvu in the same place, thin-skinned ; pulp juicy and sweet ; seeds 

 small. — Brewster County, S. W. Texas, E. L. Gage, and New Mexico to Bradshaw Moun- 

 tains, Arizona. Little known, and possibly a dry-country form of V. vulpina. In habit it 

 suggests V. Arizonica, var. glabra, from which it is distinguished, among other things, by 

 its decidedly earlier flowering and larger leaves with coarser teeth and less pointed apex. 



V. Longii, Prince. Differs from vigorous forms of V. vulpina in having floccose or pubes- 

 cent young growth : leaves decidedly more circular in outline with more angular teeth and 

 duller in color, often distinctly pubescent beneath : stamens in fertile flowers short and 

 weak and laterally reflexed, those in sterile flowers long and strong : ^eeds larger. — Vine, 

 184 (1830). V. Solonis, Planch. Vignes Am. 1 19, & in DC. Monogr. Phaner. v. 354 ; Engelm. 

 Bushberg Cat. ed. 3, 18 ; Munson, Wild Grapes N. A. 9, Am. Gard. xii. 660, & Kev. Vit. iii. 

 159; Foex, Vitic. 121 ; Viala & Ravaz, Vignes Am. 202. V.Nuevo-Mexicana, 'Lemmon in 

 Munson, Trans. Am. Hort. Soc. iii. 132 ; Munson, Wine & Fruit Gr. vii. 85 (1885), Proc. Am. 

 Pom. Soc. XX. 97, & Proc. Soc. Prom. Agr. Sci. 18S7, 59. — N. W. Texas and New Mexico. 

 Regarded by French authors as a hybrid, the species V. rupestris, vulpina, candicans, and cor- 

 difolia having been suggested as its probable parents. It is variable iu character. In most of 

 its forms it would be taken for a compound of V. rupestris and V. vulpina, but the latter 

 species is not known to occur iu most of its range. It was very likely originally a hybrid 

 between V. rupestris (which it sometimes closely resembles in herbarium specimens save for 

 its wooUiness) and some tomentose species (possibly with V. Arizonica or V. Doaniana), but 

 it is now so widely distributed and grows so far removed from its supposed parents and 

 occurs in such great quantit}' in certain areas, that for taxonomic purposes it must be kept 

 distinct. It is not unlikely that it has originated at different places as the product of unlike 

 hybridizations. Late French writers designate the jagged-leaved forms as V. Solonis, and 

 the dentate forms as V. Nuevo-Mexicana. This interesting grape was found some thirty 

 years ago by Engelmann in the Botanic Garden of Berlin under the name of Vilis Solonis, 

 without history. Engelmann guesses (Bushberg Cat. ed. 3, 18) the name to be a corrup- 

 tion of " Long's." It is probable that the plant was sent to European gardens as Vitis 

 Longii — very likely from Prince's nursery — and the name was misread on the label. 

 The original name, which was duly published by Prince with description, may now be 

 restored. 



Var. microspernia, Bailey, n. comb. {V. Solo7iis, var. microsperma, Munson, Rev. 

 Vit. iii. 160), is a very vigorous and small-seeded form, which is very resistant to drought. — 

 Red River, N. Texas. 



V. Champini, Planch. Probably a hybrid of V. rupestris or V. Berlandieri and V. candi- 

 cans, bearing medium to large reniform or reniform-cordate leaves which are variously 

 pubescent or cobwebby but become glabrous, the growing tips mostly white-tomentose : 

 berries very large and excellent. — Jour. Vigne Am. vi. 22, ix. 192, & in DC. Monogr. 

 Phaner. v. 327 ; Munson, Trans. Am. Hort. Soc. iii. 137 (as hybrid), Proc. Am. Pom. Soc. 

 XX. 97, Wild Grapes N. A. 11, Gard. & For. iii. 474, Am. Gard. xii. 661, t. opp. p. 579, & 

 Rev. Vit. iii. 81 ; Foex, Vitic. 118; Viala & Ravaz, Vignes Am. 192. — S. W. Texas. In 

 some places associated with V. candicans, Berlandieri, and monlicola only, and in others with 

 the above and V. rupestris. Often found composing dense thickets. 



= = Diaphragms very thick and strong : young shoots bright red : leaves often strongly 

 lobed. 



V. palmata, Vahl. (Rep or Cat Grape.) A slender but strong-growing vine, with 

 small long-jointed angled red glabrous herb-like shoots and red petioles ; leaves small to 



