NATIVE GRAPES 115 



and Illinois to the mountains of W. North Carolina, and to 

 W. Tennessee. Well distinguished from V. cestivalis (at least 

 in its northern forms) by the absence of rufous tomentum, 

 the blue-glaucous small -toothed leaves, and long petioles 

 and tendrils. It has been misunderstood because it loses its 

 glaucous character in the fall. Of small promise horticul- 

 turally. 



Vitis Caribcea, DC. Climbing, with flocculent- woolly (or rarely 

 almost glabrous) and striate shoots; tendrils rarely contin- 

 uous: leaves cordate-ovate or even broader, and mostly 

 acuminate-pointed, sometimes obscurely angled above (but 

 never lobed except now and then on young shoots), becom- 

 ing glabrous'above but generally remaining rufous-tomentose 

 below, the margins set with very small mucro-tipped sinuate 

 teeth: cluster long and long-peduncled, generally large and 

 very compound : berry small and globose, purple ; seed 

 obovate, grooved on the dorsal side. A widely distributed 

 and variable species in the American tropics, running into 

 white-leaved forms (as in F. Slancoi, Munson). Little 

 known in the United States: Louisiana, Lake City, N. Flor- 

 ida; swamp, near Jacksonville, Florida. 

 BB. Leaves densely tomentose or felt-like beneath throughout 



the season, the covering white or rusty white. 

 c. Tendrils intermittent (every third joint with neither tendril 

 nor inflorescence opposite). 



Vitis cnndicans, Engelm. (Mustang Grape.) Plant strong and 

 high climbing, with densely woolly young growth (which is 

 generally rusty tipped), and very thick diaphragms: leaves 

 medium in size, and more or less poplar- like, ranging from 

 reniform-ovate to cordate-ovate or triangular-ovate, dull 

 above but \ery densely white-tomentose below and on the 

 petioles, the basal sinus very broad and open or usually 

 none whatever (the base of the leaf then nearly truncate), 

 deeply 5-7-lobed (with enlarging rounded sinuses) on the 

 strong shoots and more or less indistinctly lobed or only 

 angled on the normal growths, the margins wavy or sinuate- 

 toothed: stamens in the sterile flowers long and strong, 

 those in the fertile flowers very short and laterally reflexed: 

 clustar small, mostly branched, bearing a dozen to twenty 



