VITIS 



The structure o£ the key to the following specie 

 wheu standing alone, is as foUowfa : 

 A Species grown wholly for ornament: 



Old fVorld (Nos. 1-4) 



B. Lv.i. simple, cisstii-like (No. 1) 



BB. Lvs. simple, vili^-ia-,' (No. 2) 



BBB. Lrs. 11 Itll :-'i Itl^ 



VITIS 



1949 



(Nos. S, 4) 



4. pterfiphora. Baker ( T. gongylddes. Lynch, not 

 Baker). A most remarkable species, the branches bear- 

 ing cylindrical or club ■ shaped tubers at their ends, 

 which fall and produce new plants: tall, climbing by 

 means of long forking disciferous tendrils, the stem 

 winged and hairy: hs large, of 3 Ifts., which maybe 



the peti.il. HiD^.il iMiii |M .iuiK'uIate: floral envelopes 

 of a tin. k, 11.^1 > il\N uhI 4 iinnutc [letals. Brazil. G.C. 

 II III ,-, , H M lisii. 1,11 -r,. )., 170. -Offered in S. 

 C'alit. 



FF I'hnil s (,../,/ .I,n,l„„., |N... Ih) 



EEE. Olhl.nhl, .,.,lloi,.l,„i,,l -,„- 



. . (So 1!)) 



DD. C.I.:. 'I I.. '...I <.. '/■ (Nos. 20-27) 



E. Jl.ll,,,, h^ ,.!,, Iln,-r,ih„t or 



,',',, ilh ' (Nos. 20-24) 



F. A'll./^ i.t II I. .11 I nil shoots 



iih.l, t,,,/,.,l .... (Nos. 20,21) 



FF K„.l^..isl.. 's M/s/./ (,/)/-,(?. (Nos. 22-24) 

 EE. JJ„t..,. h. .l.,.s.l.,t..i„,ntose 



I. ,....11. (Nos. 25-27) 



F. T.iiiliil^ lilt, imitl, III (Nos. 25,26) 



FF. Tendrils eoiihnnnus (nt 



every joint) (No. 27) 



BB. Skin and pulp firmly cohering .. . (No. 28) 



A. Species grown wholly for ornament, recently intro- 

 duced from various parts of the Old World. 

 B. Lvs. simple, cissvs-like. 

 1. ant4rctica, Benth. (Cissns antdrctica. Vent. 

 Vitis BandiniAna. F. Muell. Cissiis Bandinidna, 

 Brouss.). Vigorous tall woody climber, the young 

 growths red-hairy or sometimes glabrous: lvs. ovate to 

 oblong, on hairy petioles, toothed, glandular in the 

 axils of veins beneath : fls. greenish, tonientose, in 

 short cymes, the petals 4 and falling separately: berry 

 globular. Australia. B.M. 2488. -Offered in southern 

 California and said to be suitable for covering rocks 

 and walls. 



nple, often lobed, 



-like 



2. Coignfetiae, Pulliat. Very strong-growing vine, cov- 

 ering trees and arbors with a thatch of heavy showy 

 foliage: branches floccose-tomentose when young: ten- 

 drils intermittent: lvs. cordate - orbicular, with 3-5 

 lobe -like points, the margins shallowly apiculate- 

 toothed, dull above, thickly gray-pubescent beneath: 

 thyrse stalked, short: fr. globular, about H in. in diam., 

 practically inedible, although said to be eaten after 

 being frozen by the Japanese. N. Japan. Gn. 49, p. 48; 

 50, p. 449. R.H. 1898, p. 426-28. -One of the best of all 

 strong-growing vines, and hardy in the northern states. 

 Its foliage becomes brilliant scarlet in the fall, whence 

 it has been called the "Crimson Glory Vine." In gen- 

 eral appearance it much resembles Vitis Labrwsea. It 

 is not yet well known. It grows readily from imported 

 seeds. It can also be propagated by layering and by 

 grafting on other stocks. Named for Mme. Coignet, 

 of Lyons, France. 



BBB. Lvs. with S-5 leaflets. 



3. hypoglailca, P. Muell. {Cissus hypoglaiica, Gray). 

 Foliage handsome and persistent, dark green above and 

 glaucous beneath; leaflets usually 5, obovate to elliptic, 

 acuminate, stalked, entire or toothed towards the apex: 

 fls. yellowish : fr. rather small and nearly globular. 

 Australia. -Offered in S. Calif. 



B. Skin of the mature berry usually separating freely 



from the pulp {JVos. 5-27). 



C. Bark hearing prominent lenticels, never shredding: 



n,..i;r-rlii.^li rs small ilii.l mil minh rlonijated: 

 sri.ls i.r.ll ..r iihU.nil, llilhollt II ilistiiii-l stipe-like 

 beak. (Jliiscadiniu.) 

 5. rotundiJdlia, Michx. ( V. taurlna, Bartram. V. mil- 

 p'lna, Authors, not Linn. J', muscadhia, anguldta, ver- 

 rucdsa.pellata.Florid(ina,Rat.). Muscadine, Southern 

 Fox Gkape, BuLLAtE Or BuLLiT or Bull Grape. Fig. 

 2G96. Vine with hard, warty wood, running rampantly 

 even 60 to 100 ft. over bushes and trees, and in the 

 shade often sending down dichotomous aerial roots: lvs. 

 rather small to medium (2 to 6 in. long), dense in tex- 

 ture and glabrous both sides ( souiitiiiii-s pubescent 

 along the veins beneath), cordati-c A Mti- iuid not lobed, 

 mostly with a prominent and soinrtimrs :ui •■[.■uniinate 

 point (but somewhat contracted ab<ivi' tbi- tciiiiination 

 of the two main side veins), the under surface tinely 

 reticulated between the veins, the teeth and the apex 

 angular, coarse and acute, the basal sinus shallow, 

 broad and edentate; petiole slender and (like the young 

 growth) flne-scurfv, about the length of the leaf-blade: 

 tendrils (or flower-clusters) discontinuous, every third 

 node being bare: fruit-bearing clusters smaller than the 

 sterile ones, and ripening from 3 to 20 grapes in a 

 nearly globular bunch: berries falling from the clusters 

 when ripe, spherical or nearly so and large ( H-1 in. in 

 diameter), with very thick and tough skin and a tough 

 musky flesh, dull purple in color without bloom (in the 

 Scuppernong variety silvery amber-green), ripe in 

 summer and early autumn: seeds }4-% in. long, shaped 

 something like a coffee berry. River banks, swamps, 

 and rich woodlands and thickets, S. Delaware to N. Fla. 

 and west to Kans. and Texas. 



