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lected by the Swiss botanist, Berlandier,' in Texas in 1834, and also from 

 living plants which had been shipped into France. Planchon states that 

 this is the Monticola of Engelmann, but not the Monticola of Buckley. 

 Buckley's description is admittedly unsatisfactory but it does not seem 

 that Planchon is justified in saying that Engelmann was mistaken when 

 the latter probably had better opportunities for determining Buckley's 

 meaning than Planchon. 



Berlandieri is a native of the limestone hills of southwest Texas and 

 adjacent Mexico. According to Munson, it grows " in the same region 

 with V. monticola but is less restricted locally, growing from the tops of 

 the hills all along down and along the creek bottoms of those regions." 

 Its great virtue is that it withstands a soil largely composed of lime. It 

 is superior to all other American species in this respect. This and its 

 moderate degree of vigor (not quite so vigorous as Cinerea, according to 

 Munson) has recommended it to the French growers as a stock for their 

 calcareous soils. The roots are strong, thick and very resistant to 

 phylloxera. 



It is propagated by cuttings with comparative ease, but its varieties 

 are variable in this respect, some not rooting at all easily. While the fruit 

 of this species shows a large cluster, the berries are small and sour, and 

 Berlandieri is not regarded as having any promise for culture in America. 



13. VITIS CINEREA Engelm.= 



I. Engelmann, Gray's Man., Edition 5, 1867:679. V. .\estivalis, var. cinerea. 2. (?) lb., 

 Am. Nat., 2:321. 1868. V. aestivalis, var canescens. 3. lb., Mo. Ent. Rpt., 1872:61. V. 

 AESTIVALIS, var. CINEREA. 4. lb., Busli. Cat., 1883:10, II, 12, 14, 16. DoJi'iiy grape of Mississippi 

 Valley. 5. Mun.son, Am. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1885 :ij3. 6. lb., Am. Pom. Soc. Rpl., 1885:97, 98. 

 Ashy-leaved grape; Sued Winter grape. 7. lb., Soc. Prom. Ag. Sci. Rpt., 1887:59. Ashy grape; Sweet 



'Jean Louis Berlandier was a Belgian pupil of the great De Candolle, but left Europe about 

 1828 for America and became a druggist in Matamoras, Mexico. He was one of the first botanists 

 to explore northern Mexico and Texas. In attempting to cross one of the small streams south of 

 the Rio Grande in 1851, he was drowned. Many of his papers, plants and some paintings are pre- 

 served in the herbarium of Harvard University and his services to botany arc commemorated by 

 the genus Berlandiera, dedicated to him by De Candolle, and the species Vitis berlandieri here 

 described. 



^ George Engelmann was bom at Frankfurt-on-the-Main in 1809. He was educated at the 

 Universities of Heidelberg, Berlin and Wurzburg, receiving a doctor's degree in medicine from the 

 latter institution. In 1832 Dr. Engelmann sailed for America and spent some months in exploring 



