428 VITACE^. Vitis. 



Var. Linseconiii, Munson. (Post-oak, Pine-wood, or Turkey Grape.) More 

 stocky than V. nstivuUs, climbing high upon trees but forming a bushy clump when not 

 finding support: leaves densely tomentose or velvety below: berries large (^ to f inch 

 in diameter), black and glaucous, mostly palatable ; seeds mostly much larger than in 

 V. cestivalis (oiteu f inch limg). — Proc. Am. Pom. Soc. xx. 97. V. diversiJuUa, Prince, 

 Vine, 183, not Wall. V. Linseconiii, Buckley, Pat. Off. Eep. 1861, 485, Proc. Acad. 

 Philad. 1861, 45\, & 1870, 136; Planch. 1. c. 338; Millardet, Vignes Am. 211, t. 21 ; Mun- 

 son, Wild Grapes N. A. 12, Gard. & Por. iii. 474, 475, Am. Gard. xii. 585, & Rev. Vit. v. 

 159; Foex, Vitic. 36 ; Viala & Ravaz, Vignes Am. 66. — High post-oak (Quercus stellata) 

 lands, S. W. Missouri to N. Texas and E. Louisiana. Very likely derived from the 

 lestiualis type through adaptation to dry soils and climates. Perhaps worth recognition as 

 a geographical species. 



Var. Bourquiniana, Bailey, n. comb. A domestic offslioot, represented in such 

 cultivated varieties as Herbemont and Le Noir, differing from V. cestivalis in its mostly 

 thinner leaves which (like the young shoots) are only slightly red-brown below, the pubes- 

 cence niostlv cinereous or dun-colored or the under surface sometimes l)lue-green : berries 

 large and juicy, black or amber-colored. — V. Bourquiniana, Munson, Wild Grapes N. A. 

 12, Gard. & For. iii. 474, Am. Gard. xii. 584, & Rev. Vit. v. 159 ; Viala & Ravaz, Vignes 

 Am. 237 (considering it a vinifera-cestiralis hybrid). — A mixed type, some of it probably 

 a direct amelioration of V.cestivalis, and some hybridized with the wine-grape (V.vinijera). 

 Much cultivated south. 

 V. bicolor, LeConte. (Blue Grape, or SumiMer Grape of the North.) A strong high- 

 climbing vine, with mostly long internodes and thick diaphragms, the young growth and 

 canes generally perfectly glabrous and mostly (but not always) glaucous-blue, tendrils and 

 petioles very long: leaves large, rouud-cordate-ovate in outline, glabrous and dull above 

 and very heavily glaucous-blue below, but losing tlie bloom and becoming dull green 

 very late in the season, those on the young growth deeply 3-5-lobed and on the older 

 growths shallowly 3-lobed, the basal sinus running from deej) to shallow, the margins mostly 

 shallow-toothed or sinuate-toothed (at least not so prominently notch-toothed as in V. ccsti- 

 valis) : cluster mostly long and nearly simple (sometimes forked), generally with a long or 

 prominent peduncle; the purple and densely glaucous berries of medium size (| inch or less 

 in diameter), sour but pleasant-tasted when ripe (just before frost) ; seeds rather small. — 

 Proc. Acad. Philad. vi. 272, & Flora, 1853, 708; Planch, in DC. Monogr. Phaner. v. 614; 

 Munson, Wild Grapes N. A. 12, Gard. & For. iii. 474, Am. Gard. xii. 585, & Rev. Vit. v. 163 ; 

 Foex, Vitic. 37 ; Viala & Ravaz, Vignes Am. 68. V. argentifolia, Munson, Proc. Soc. Prom. 

 Agr. Sci. 1887, 59. — Abundant northwards along streams and on banks, there taking tlie 

 place of V. aistwalis. Ranges from New York aud Illinois to the mountains of W. North 

 Carolina, Bailey, and to W. Tennessee, Fencller. Well distinguished from V. cestivalis (at 

 least in its northern forms) by the absence of rufous tomeutum, the blue-glaucous small- 

 toothed leaves, aud long petioles and tendrils. It lias been misunderstood because it loses 

 its glaucous character in the fall. 

 V. Carib^a, DC. Climbing, with flocculent-woolly (or rarely almost glabrous) and striate 

 shoots : tendrils rarely continuous : leaves cordate-ovate or even broader and mostly acumi- 

 nate-pointed, sometimes obscurely angled above (but never lobed e.\'cept now and then on 

 young shoots), becoming glabrous above but generally remaining rufous-tomentose below, 

 the margins set with very small mucro-tipped sinuate teeth : cluster long aud long- 

 peduncled, generally large and very compound ; berry small and globose, purple ; seed 

 obovate, grooved on the dorisal side. — Prodr. i. 634; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 102; Planch. 

 1. c. 330; Eugelm. Bushberg Cat. ed. 3, 15. — A widely distributed and variable species in 

 the American tropics, running into white-leaved forms (as in F. Blancoi, Munson). Little 

 known in the United States; Louisiana, //ooA;er; Lake City, N. Florida, iVas/(, no. 2493; 

 swamp, near Jacksonville, Plorida, Curtiss, no. 4791. 

 H— -h- Leaves densely tomentose or felt-like beneath throughout the season, the covering 



white or rusty-white. 

 ++ Tendrils intermittent (every third joint with neither tendril nor inflorescence opposite). 

 V. candicans, Engelm. (Mustang Grape.) Plant strong and high climbing with 

 densely woolly young growth (which is generally rusty-tipped), and very thick diaphragms: 



