above water, even during the dry season and where the roots must occupy ground perfectly 

 saturated during the rainy season." 



13. VITIS BERLANDIERI, Planchon. From specimens collected by Berlandier in 

 Western Texas about 1883. (See Plate XXIII.) 



Synonyms : 



V. cestivalis monticola, var. Engelm. in Am. Nat., 2, p. 321. 



V. cestivalis, var. Gray, PI. Wright, 1, p. 32. 



V. monticola, Engelm. Bushberg Cat., p. 15, 1SS3. 



V. monticola, Millardet, Especes de Vignes, pp. 199-204, 1885. 



"Little Mountain Grape," "Fall Grape," "Winter Grape," "Spanish Grape." 



Plant: Rather stocky, with much the same habit as V. cinerea though more tapering and 

 branched, climbing somewhat less, yet along streams going to tops of large trees, foliage of a bright, 

 dark lively green color, and shining in light, its chief distinction from V. cinerea. 



Roots: Little branching, wrinkled transversely, hard, deeply penetrating. 



Wood: When young distinctly angled as in V ' . cinerea, covered with dull ashy pubescence and 

 thin cottony hairs, the pubescence remaining through the first year, giving the dull brown, finely 

 striated bark beneath an ashy appearance; wood rather soft; sectional view of annual wood 

 porous, rays distinct, almost identical in structure and hardness with V. cinerea; nodes slightly 

 bulged, much bent; diaphragm 1/12' to 1/10' in thickness, nearly plane; buds usually small and 

 conical, sub-triangled, sometimes globose and cottony like tip, unfolding, pinkish-crimson or 

 salmon, tip closed; tendrils generally once, often twice forked, long, at first cottony and pubes- 

 cent, then smooth, striated, red or green, persistent; internodes usually short, 2' to 4' long, often 

 more, sometimes 6' or 7'; pith small, enlarged at lower end, light brown or nearly white. 



Leaves : Stipules very small ; petiole in length about 1 /2 the width of blade, distinctly striated, 

 groove very narrow and shallow, almost wanting, covered with a thin ashy cotton or closely 

 set with a short velvety pubescence, or both, reddish or green, set at right or obtuse angle with 

 leaf. Blade mostly 2' to 4' wide, sometimes 5' or 6', the length of the blade from insertion of 

 petiole to summit, less by about 1/5 than its width; circular, slightly cupped toward upper face, 

 with mar gin bent back a little, less so than V. Arizonica; basal sinus usually n shaped, but also 

 often A shaped, or acute at insertion of petiole; shoulders usually not very prominent, apex 

 short, acutely tapering; teeth short, small, convex with minute mucron; venation from the usually 

 6, sometimes 7 pairs of opposite, rather prominent ribs, covered with short, velvety pubescence; 

 leaves when young, pinkish or green, thinly covered with short, delicate hairs, giving an ashy 

 appearance, becoming smooth or slightly rugose, dark glossy green at maturity; the under surface 

 between the ribs, thickly set with short, delicate cottony hairs, when young, smooth and glossy at 

 maturity as if varnished; color dark green; texture dense, leathery; leaves from ground shoots 

 of old wood usually 3 to 5 lobed, with rounded lateral sinuses quite similar in this respect to 

 V. cinerea. 



Clusters: Medium to very large, compact, with false tendril which sometimes becomes a 

 secondary cluster, or shoulder; rachis once or twice compounded, pubescent or cottony, pale green; 

 pedicels 1/5' to 1/4' long, slender, enlarged at receptacle, warty. 



Flowers: Fertile, stamens recurved and bent laterally; ovary small, ovate, style slender; 

 stigma small; staminate, stamens long, slender, ascending. 



Berries: 1/5' to 1/3' in diameter, spherical, black or purple, sometimes red, little to much 

 bloom, far more than in V. cinerea, a good distinction ; skin thin; pulp melting, juicy, vinous, pure 

 and sweet if allowed to hang till frost, tastes much like fruit of V. cinerea. 



Seeds : 1 to 3, usually 1 ; small to medium, 1/8' to 1/5' long by about the same broad ; globu- 

 lar or broadly ovoid when only one in a berry; color grayish-coffee to light chocolate brown, wine 

 or pale-purplish; beak very small, short; raphe is generally invisible or a fine thread, quite as 

 prominent in Uvaide County specimens as in V. cinerea; chalaza usually flat or depressed, some- 



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