1950 



VITIS 



6. MunBoni&na, Simpson. Mustang Grape of Florida. 

 Bird or Everbearing Ukape. Very slender grower, 

 preferring to run on the ground or over low bushe;;, 

 more nearly evergreen than the last, flowering more or 

 less continuously: Ivs. smaller, thinner, and more shin- 

 ing, more nearly circular in outline and less prominently 

 pointed, the teeth broader in proportion to the blade and 

 more open or spreading: clusters larger and more 

 thyrse-like: berries a half smaller than in the last and 

 often more numerous, shining 

 pulp, acid juice, no ni 

 half smaller than in the : 

 Florida, at Jacksonville, 

 apparently the only Grape 

 Bahamas. -Difficult to d' 

 in herbarium specimens, bi 



in. in diam.), purple-black and somewhat glaucous, 

 pleasant-tasted, ripe in hue summer: seeds .small and 

 broad. Sandy banks, low hills and mountains, District 

 of Columbia and S. Pa. to Tenn., Indiana, Wo., and 

 b. W. Texas. 



Var. diBsScta, Eggert, is a form with more ovate Ivs. 

 and very long teeth, and a strong tendency towards ir- 

 regular lobing. Mo. 



arked 



, Bark 



separiitih 



tlower-rl: 

 pyrifunii 

 Oreen-lenvi 

 absetiri- .. 

 htm or s 

 benealli i 

 cent, nr 

 axils nf 



every tlii, 



els, OH the old wood 

 H strips atid fibers: nodes 

 'niijms: tendrils forked: 

 hirije and elongated: seeds 



stii/ marked at maturity by 



rln'lc, ritstif, or blue tomen- 



nrii.'iis hh.om nil the IvS. 



. iiilrils (or inflores- 

 ri-niiica are partial 

 ;< il for in dd (Ifos. 



vulpina (X %). 



2697. A slender trailing or climbing plant (reaching 20 

 to 30 ft. in height, with very long and slender branches, 

 the young growth angled and floccose (sometimes gla- 

 brous), the diaphragms plane and rather thin : Ivs. 

 small and thin (rarely reaching 4 in. in width and gen- 

 erally from 2 to 3 in. high), cordate-ovate to triangular- 

 ovate, with the basal sinus ranging from nearly trun- 



cate-obIii|'i.' 1 hi:!!!', in, .tIi .1 T' -ii:i].r(I. rather dark 



green l.u; ' i : . ' i-n below, when 



yountr 111' I ' , . , ,. .' :i.linoid below, 



the bhcii . I ;,, I |.i>.ii,,i ; ;, ■ n t-ither upper 



margin ur uliuu.L iuin d. iln puiui ami, and often pro- 

 laller teeth 



chcd 



hri.llil ,,,;,, I „n,sll,l .llnss,! Ir:s. [il'Iurl, „ i: .1, „, i- 



II,.' axils ot III,' nUns a„,l III i'. Clntiiijiiiin. irilli 

 „ I,,,,,/ ,,,- ,il hast It prominent point and usually 

 I, 'I,, I ,ii,'l l,n;ft' sharp teeth or the edges even 

 ,„.,j,;l i\:s.7-IS). 

 F. Lis. hi'iiiiih r III, in long, wifh truncate-oblique base. 

 ( r. Tnlriisri might be sought here.) 

 7. rupSstris, Scheole. Sand, Suoar, Rock, BnsH, or 

 Mountain Gkapk. Slinib, 2 to fi ft. high, or sometimes 

 slightly climbing, the t..,„lriU f.w ..r .-vp,, rume, dia- 

 plu-agmsplaneandratlp I I Inn : h - i , mi ,,, m i,, r.-iiiform- 

 ovate (about 3 to -t in. ii i ..^ long), 



rather thick, smooth ani ' i 1 1 faces at 



maturity, marked by a . inn n i, i i i ;: li.:l,i -i.m.-escent 

 tint, the sides turned up sn as to expose much of the 

 under surface, the base only rarely cut into a well- 

 marked sinus, the margins very coarsely angle-toothed, 

 the boldly rounded top bearing a short, abrupt point 

 and sometimes 2 lateral teeth enlarged and suggesting 

 lobes: stamens in fertile fls. recurved laterally or rarely 

 ascending, those in the sterile fls. ascending: cluster 

 small, slender, open and branched: berries small {%-% 



longed, margins irregularly' 

 than in V. rupestris : clusters short and broad, much 

 branched : berries medium or small (averaging about 

 yi in. in diam.), black or light-colored, seedy, sweet: 

 seeds large (about M in. long) and brOad. Limestone 

 hills in S. W. Texas. -This species has been the sub- 

 ject of much misunderstanding. 



9. vulpina, 

 sima, Donn. I'. I i : , i,"< ,> 

 Prince? V. tin,.. i. 



rip Aria, Gray). I i i . 

 2697, 2698. A vnm ,„. n 

 bright green cast to tiie 

 young shoots, large stipule 

 phragms: Ivs. thin, mediu 

 with a brond hut iisnallv an 



Michs 



IS, 



various 

 cut, fin 

 fertile : 



, and plane very thm dia- 

 1 to large, cordate-ovate, 



ite: 



I the 



sterile ones long and erect or ascending stamens: clus- 

 ters medium to large, on short peduncles, branched 

 (often very compound), the fls. sweet-scented : berries 

 small (less than 3< in. in diam.), purple-black with a 

 heavy blue bloom, sour and usually austere, generally 

 ripening late (even after frost) : seeds rather small and 

 :iform. New Brunswick, according to 



distill 



