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gray below and pubescent at maturity only on the veins, 

 the point only rarely prolonged and often muticous, the teeth 

 comparatively small and notch-like and not prominently 

 acute, sinus more open: floral organs very small; the sta- 

 mens reflexed in the fertile flowers; pedicels short, making 

 the bunch very compact: berries about the size of V. cordi- 

 folla, black and nearly or quite bloomless, late; seed small 

 and notched on top. Mountain valleys, 800 to 3,000 feet 

 altitude, S. W. Virginia and adjacent West Virginia and 

 W. North Carolina, Tennessee and N. Georgia; also at com- 

 mon levels in the uplands of West -central Georgia. The 

 eastern counterpart of V. Berlandieri. Not promising for 

 the cultivator. 



Vitis Berlandieri, Planch. 'Mountain, Spanish, Fall, or Winter 

 Grape.) A stocky, moderately climbing vine, with mostly 

 short internodes and rather thick diaphragms: leaves me- 

 dium-large, broadly cordate-ovate or cordate-orbicular (fre- 

 quently as broad as long), glabrous and glossy above, 

 covered at first with gray pubescence below but becoming 

 glabrous and even glossy except on the veins, the sinus 

 mostly inverted -U-shaped in outline but often acute at the 

 point of insertion of the petiole, the margin distinctly angled 

 above or shortly 3-lobed and marked by rather large open 

 notch- like acute teeth of varying size, the apex mostly pro- 

 nounced and triangular- pointed: stamens long and ascending 

 in the sterile flowers, laterally recurved in the fertile ones: 

 clusters compact and compound, mostly strongly shouldered, 

 bearing numerous medium to small (%-inch or less in diam- 

 eter) purple and slightly glaucous very late berries, which 

 are juicy and pleasant-tasted ; seed (frequently only one) 

 medium to small. Limestone soils along streams and hills, 

 S. W. Texas and adjacent Mexico. Well marked by the 

 gray-veined under surface of the leaves. No varieties in 

 cultivation, and gives little promise in that direction, al- 

 though it crosses with one or two other species; but valu- 

 able as phylloxera-proof stock on limy soils. 



Vitis cinerea, Engelm. (Sweet Winter Grape.) Climbing high, 

 with medium to long internodes and thick and strong dia- 

 phragms; leaves large, broadly cordate-ovate to triangular- 



