times convex, ovate or roundish in center of back of seed or above, surrounded by a distinct 

 groove which continues to, or over top of seed ; ventral depressions commonly wide apart at the 

 top, approaching at beak, broad, shallow, color light cinnamon, or nearly same as body of seed. 



Plantlet: Cotyledons small, ovate, green, similar to V. cinerea; petioles medium long, 

 1/6' to 1/4'. 



Viticultural Observations and Remarks 



Germination slow, about with V. cinerea, not so late as V. Lincecumii, feeble; foliation late 

 to very late, just before or with V. cinerea; ripening of fruit very late, September and October at 

 Denison, Texas, somewhat earlier than V. cinerea. 



First year's growth feeble, slender and reclining, becoming vigorous after first year but not 

 so rampant as V. cinerea; endures cold and drouth ; resistant to Black Rot ; leaves of most varie- 

 ties of this species mildew in low lands and wet climates much worse than V. cinerea; cuttings 

 grow with difficulty and in only rare exceptions is the contrary true; among many tried I have 

 found but one pure V. Berlandieri that was very vigorous and healthy, bearing a good cluster and 

 fair fruit, which grows very readily from cuttings and so far has not been attacked by mildew, 

 offering a fine basis for a group of hybrids to secure a combination of various fine properties for 

 dry, mild climates and for very limy soils. As a stock to succeed in very dry calcareous soils, 

 resist Phylloxera, and live to a great age, we probably have no better species in the United States, 

 but it has one generally serious fault, the difficulty of propagation from cuttings. 



It is often found naturally hybridized with V. monticola, V. candicans, V. rupestris, and 

 toward the Rio Grande with V. A rizonica. In some respects it closely approaches V. Arizonica, 

 especially so, vines from the Rio Grande region. The best varieties of V. Berlandieri may give 

 a basis upon which, by hybridization, a fine strain of grapes may be produced, this species being 

 prolific, of pure quality, and free from rot. 



The species is found along the streams among the cretaceous hills of central Southwestern 

 Texas, west of Brazos River to the Rio Grande and into Mexico, and is also abundant on the 

 hillsides and hilltops of the same regions. It grows best in strong limy soils, but will also grow 

 well in moist sandy lands. 



Though so nearly allied to V. cinerea it is easily distinguished from that species by its lighter 

 green, glossy foliage, with fewer ribs, its usually fewer seeds, its smaller and more compact clusters 

 with shorter peduncle and generally larger berries with more bloom. The angled, ashy pubescent 

 annual wood is readily distinguished from V. cordifolia, though the foliage might in some cases 

 be mistaken for those of that species. This species is reported as doing best of any tried in the 

 dry chalky soils of the Charente Inferieure, in France. A variety of this species I found 

 abundantly in Southwestern Coahuila, Mexico, is less glossy than the Texas form and roots 

 much less resistant to Phylloxera. 



14. VITIS BAILEYANA, Munson. (See Plate XXIV.) 



Synonyms : 



V. Virginiana, Munson. Bulletin Xo. 3, Dep. Agr. 1890. Garden and Forest, Oct. 1, 



1890, pp. 474-5. 



' 'Possum Grape." 



Plant: Slender, rather feeble, though hardy, climbing moderately, much branched; tips 

 of young growing shoots green, or pale pink, with very little pale, cottony pubescence, consider- 

 ably extended beyond fully grown leaves; very leafy, owing to the starting of short lateral 

 branches at almost every node, of a lively clear green, of a tint between V. cordifolia and 

 V. cesti'valis, the young wood being of the same shade of green as the under side of leaves, which is 

 only a shade paler than the upper surface, and in the growing plant the lower surface shows 

 about as much as upper surface, owing to the leaves being partly folded together toward 



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