666 VITIS 



glossy green beneath, smooth. Fruit said to be violet-blue. The plant has 

 a tuberous root like a Dahlia. 



V. ^STIVALIS, Michaux. SUMMER GRAPE. 



A very vigorous deciduous climber, growing to a great height when 

 support is available; branchlets round, smooth or loosely downy. Leaves 

 very large, 4 to 12 ins. across, about as much long; varying from deeply 

 three- or five-lobed to scarcely lobed at all ; teeth shallow and broad, 

 pointed at the apex, deeply heart-shaped at the base; dull green, ultimately 

 smooth above, covered beneath with more or less persistent floss which is 

 rusty red at first, changing to brown with age. Flowers in panicles up to 

 8 or 10 ins. long. Berries globose, J in. diameter, black with a blue bloom, 

 agreeably flavoured. 



Native of the eastern and central United States; introduced in the seven- 

 teenth century. It is the parent of a race of American grape vines, including 

 " Herbemont," "Cynthiana," and "Virginia Seedling." On the young stems 

 there is a tendril missing from every third joint, and in its large-leaved 

 states can thus be distinguished from V. Labrusca, which has a tendril or 

 panicle opposite every leaf. 



V. CINEREA, Engelmann. SWEET WINTER GRAPE. This vine, a native 

 of the central United States, is allied to, and was at one time regarded as 

 a variety of V. aestivalis. It has angular downy branchlets (as contrasted 

 with the round, almost smooth ones of aestivalis) ; the down beneath the 

 leaf is grey or whitish, and the berries have little or no bloom. 



V. AMURENSIS, Ruprecht. AMURLAND GRAPE. 



A strong-growing, deciduous vine of somewhat similar character to, but 

 quite distinct from, V. vinifera, with reddish young shoots, flossy when young, 

 a thick, hard disk of wood dividing the pith at the joints. Leaves 4 to ip ins. 

 wide, somewhat longer; three-lobed, often deeply so, the middle lobe then 

 of broadly ovate form, with a slender abrupt point; the base has a deep, 

 round, broad sinus; under-surface somewhat downy. 



Native of Amurland, Corea, and N. China. Worth growing for its vigorous 

 habit, and for the usually fine crimson and purple autumn hues of its noble 

 foliage. 



V. ARBOREA, Linnceus. PEPPER VINE. 



(Ampelopsis arborea, Koehne ; A. bipinnata, Michaux.} 



A deciduous climber, with slender, purplish, nearly or quite smooth, 

 somewhat angular, zigzag shoots, slightly marked with lenticels ; tendrils 

 slender, forked. Leaves 5 to 8 ins. long, about as much wide, doubly 

 (sometimes trebly) pinnate, and composed of numerous stalked leaflets, which 

 are ovate, \ to if ins. long, \ to i|- ins. wide; sometimes lobed, always with 

 very large, sharp, triangular teeth, the apex pointed, the base narrowly to 

 broadly wedge-shaped; dark green and smooth above; at first downy on the 

 veins and in the vein-axils beneath, ultimately nearly or quite smooth. 

 Flowers in open, long-stalked cymes. Berries dark purple, about \ in. 

 diameter. 



Native of the southern United States; introduced in 1700, and quite 

 hardy, although better against a wall than in the open. It belongs to what 

 is now considered the "true" Ampelopsis group, in which the petals are 



