STURTEVANT S NOTES ON EDIBLE PLANTS 599 



V. antarctica Benth. 



East Australia. This species is an evergreen, bearing small and edible berries.' 



V arborea Linn. 



Orient and North America. The fruit is said to become agreeable when perfectly 

 matured, but Nuttall ^ says, to his taste, it is always nauseous. 



V. arizonica Engelm. canyon grape. 



Arizona and Utah. The fruit is small, borne in small clusters and is said to be quite 

 luscious.' 



V. aixriculata Wall. 



Himalayan region, Burma and Java. The berries are large and juicy.* 



V. berlanderi Planch. 



Texas and northern Mexico. This vine bears a very large cluster of rich, though 

 remarkably small, fruit. ^ The quality is fine for wine.' 



V. bicolor Le Conte. blue grape, summer grape. 



New Hampshire to North Carolina and westward. The berries are small and gen- 

 erally sweet and agreeable.' 



V. caesia Sabine. 



Tropical Africa. The berries are round and black, with an austere, acid taste not 

 very agreeable to Europeans; the grapes are eaten chiefly by the negroes, who are very 

 fond of them. * 



V. califomica Benth. 



Southwestern United States. The quantity of the fruit that an Indian will consume 

 at one time is scarcely credible. The ancient Pueblo Indians were in the habit of culti- 

 vating this grape as is evident from the pecialiar distribution of the plant near reined 

 settlements. In Arizona, near Fort Whipple, they are foimd arranged in rows and the 

 vines are very old.* The berry is small and round and much resembles the ordinary 

 frost grape of New England but it is larger, more juicy and richer in flavor. 



V. candicans Engelm. 



Southwestern United States. The berries are large, black or dark purple; skin thin, 

 beneath which is a cuticle containing a red and very acid juice. The true pulp is edible. 

 This species bears fruit lonfit for eating owing to the biting pungency of its skin and the 

 tough pulp '" but may have promise as a wine grape. 



' Mueller, F. Sel. Pis. 50^. 1891. (V. baudiniana) 

 Nuttall, T. Gen. No. Amer. Pis. 1:1^. 1818. 

 Brewer and Watson Bo'. Col. i : 105. 1880. 

 Mueller, F. Sel. Pis. 348. 1880. 

 ' Munson Card. Forest 475. 1890. 

 Munson Amer. Card. 12:659. 1891. 

 ' U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt. 230. 1857. 

 'Sabine, J. Trans. Hort. Sac. Land. 5:447. 1824. 

 *U. S. D. A.Rpt. 41$. 1870. 

 * Munson Card. Forest 475. 1890. 



