VITIS 



VITIS 



3487 



black without bloom, with little juice and commonly 

 containing but a single seed, which is large and broad. 

 111. and Mo. to Texas; known mostly along the Wabash 

 River and along the Mississippi in the latitude of St. 

 Louis. G.F. 2:341 (repeated in Fig. 3959). A hand- 

 some plant. V. palmata, Vahl, founded on Virginian 

 specimens, is probably V. vtdpina, although it is 

 sometimes made to replace the name V. rubra. 



18. cordif 61ia, Michx. TRUE FROST GRAPE. CHICKEN, 

 RACCOON, or WINTER GRAPE. One of the most vigor- 

 ous of American vines, climbing to the tops of the 

 tallest trees, and sometimes making a trunk 1-2 ft. 

 diam.: diaphragms thick and strong: Ivs. long-cor- 

 date, triangular-cordate with rounded base, or -cor- 

 date-ovate, undivided but sometimes very indistinctly 

 3-lobed or 3-angled, the basal sinus rather deep and 

 narrow, the margin with large acute teeth of different 

 sizes and the point long and acute, the upper surface 

 glossy and the lower bright green and either becoming 

 perfectly glabrous or bearing a little close and fine 

 inconspicuous gra yish pubescence on the veins; petioles 

 long: stamens erect in the sterile fls. and short reflexed- 

 curved in the fertile ones: clusters long and very 

 many-flowered, most of the pedicels branched or at 

 least bearing a cluster of fls.: berries numerous and 

 small 'about ?gin. diam.), in a loose bunch, black and 

 only very slightly glaucous, late and persistent, with a 

 thick skin and little pulp, becoming edible after frost; 

 seeds medium and broad. In thickets and along streams 

 from Pa. (and probably S. N. Y.) to E. Kans., Fla., 

 and Texas. 



Var. ftietida, Engelni.. has fetidly aromatic berries, 

 and grows in the Mississippi Valley. 



Var. sempervirens, Munson. A glossy-lvd. form 

 holding its foliage very late: Ivs. sometimes suggesting 

 forms of V. rubra, deltoid with a truncate base: clus- 

 ters small, the fr. ripening later than in the tvpe. S. 

 Fla. 



Var. Helleri, Bailey (V. Hetteri, Small). Lvs. more 

 circular (i. e., lacking the long point), and the teeth 

 round-obtuse and ending in a short mucro. Kerr Co., 

 S. Texas. 1,600-2,000 ft. 



19. Berlandieri, Planch. MOUNTAIN. SPANISH. FALL. 

 or WINTER GRAPE. Fig. 3960. A stocky moderately 

 climbing vine, with mostly short internodes and rather 

 thick diaphragms: k*s. medium large, broadly cordate- 

 ovate or cordate-orbicular (frequently 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 pronounced and triangular-pointed: stamens 

 long and ascending in the sterile fls.. laterally recurved 

 in the fertile ones: clusters compact and compound, 

 mostly strongly shouldered, bearing numerous medium 

 to small i. 1 sin. or less diam.), purple and slightly glau- 

 cous very late berries which are juicy and pleasant- 

 tasted: seed (frequently only 1) medium to small. 

 Limestone soils along streams and hills, S. W. Texas 

 and Mex. Well marked by the gray-veined under 

 surface of the Ivs. 



20. Baileyana, Munson. TOSSTTM GRAPE. Less vig- 

 orous cumber than V. cordifolia. rather slender, with 

 short internodes and very many short side shoots: Ivs. 

 frequently smaller, the larger ones shortly but distinctly 

 3-lobed (lobes mostly pointed and much spreading), 

 bright green but not shining above, gray below and 

 pubescent at maturity only on the veins, the point only 

 rarely prolonged and often muticous, the teeth com- 

 paratively small and notch-like and not prominently 

 acute, sinus more open; petioles shorter and often 



pubescent : floral organs very small, the stamens reflexed 

 in the fertile fls. : pedicels short, making the bunch very 

 compact: berries about the size of V. cordifolia, black 

 and nearly or quite bloomless, late; seed small and 

 notched on top. Mountain valleys, 800-3,000 ft. 

 altitude, S. W. Va. and adjacent W. Va. and W. N. C., 

 Tenn., and N. Ga.; also at common levels in the 

 uplands of W. Cent. Ga. The eastern counterpart of 

 V. Berlandieri. 



21. cinerea, Engelm. SWEET WINTER GRAPE. Fig. 

 3961. Climbing high, with medium to long internodes 

 and thick and strong diaphragms: Ivs. large, broadly 

 cordate-ovate to triangular-cordate-ovate (generally 

 longer than broad), the sinus mostly wide and obtuse, 



3960. Vitis Berlandieri. 

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the margin small-notched (teeth much smaller than in 

 V. Berlandieri) or sometimes almost entire, mostly dis- 

 tinctly and divaricately 3-angled or shortly 3-lobed 

 toward the apex, the triangular apex large and promi- 

 nent, the upper surface cobwebby when young but 

 becoming dull dark green (not glossy), the under sur- 

 face remaining ash-gray or dun-gray, webby-pubescent : 

 stamens in sterile fls. long, slender, and ascending, in the 

 fertile ones short and laterally recurved: cluster mostly 

 loose and often straggling, containing many small 

 black berries, these only slightly, if at all glaucous, 

 ripening very late, and after frost becoming sweet and 

 pleasant; seeds small to medium. Along streams, 

 mostly in limy soils, Cent. 111. to Kans. and Texas; also 

 N. Fla., also in Mex. Readily distinguished from V. 

 aestivalis by the triangular-topped sharply 3-lobed ash- 

 gray Ivs. and the gray tomentum of the young growth. 

 Var. floridana, Munson (V. austrina, Small). Grow- 

 ing tips rusty-tomentose, as are sometimes the veins on 



