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species (possibly with V. Arizonica or 

 V. Doaniana), but it is now so widely 

 distributed and grows so far removed 

 from its supposed parents and occurs 

 in such great quantity in 

 certain areas, that for tax- 

 onomic purposes it must 

 be kept distinct. It is not 

 unlikely that it has origi- 

 nated at different places 

 as the product of unlike 

 hybridizations. Late 

 French writers designate 

 the jagged leaved forms as 

 V. Solonis, and the den- 

 tate forms as V. Nuevo- 

 Mexicana. This interest- 

 ing Grape was found some 

 thirty years ago by Engel- 

 mann in the Botanic Gar- 

 den of Berlin under the 

 name of Vitls Solonis, 

 without history. Engel- 

 n 1:111 n guesses (Bushberg 

 Cat. ed. 3, 18) the name to 

 be a corruption of 

 "Long's." It is probable 

 that the plant was sent to 

 European gardens as Vitis 

 Longiivery likely from 

 Prince's nursery and the 

 name was misread on the 

 label. The original name, 

 which was duly published by 

 Prince with description, may 

 now be restored. 



Var. microsperma, Bailey 

 ( V. Solonis, var. micro- 

 sptrma, Munson), is a very 

 vigorous and small - seeded 

 form, which is very resistant 

 to drought. Red River, N. 

 Texas. 



12. Champini, Planch. Prob- 

 ably a hybrid of V. rupestris 

 or V. Berlandieri and V. can- 

 dicans, bearing medium to 

 large reniform or reniform- 

 cordate Ivs. which are var- 

 iously pubescent or cobwebby 

 but become glabrous, the 

 growing tips mostly white-to- 

 mentose: berries very large 

 and excellent. S. W. Texas. 

 A.G.1891 :579. In some places 

 associated with V. candicans, 

 Berlandieri and monticola 

 only, and in others with the 

 above and V. rupestris. Often 

 composing dense thickets in 

 the wild. 



GG. Diaphragms very thick 

 and strong : young 

 shoots bright red: Ivs. 

 often strongly lobed. 



13. rubra, Michx. ( V. mono- 

 sperma, Michx.). RKD or 

 CAT GRAPE. A slender but 

 strong -growing vine, with 

 small, long -jointed angled 

 red glabrous herb-like shoots 

 and red petioles: Ivs. small 

 to medium, ovate-acuminate, 

 dark green and glossy, some- 

 times indistinctly pubescent 

 on the nerves below, the 

 sinus obtuse, the blade either nearly continuous in out- 

 line or (commonly) prominently lobed or even parted 

 coarsely notched : stamens in the sterile fls Ion" 

 and erect: clusters loose and long-peduncled, branched, 

 the fls. opening very late : berries small and late 



2699. 



Vitis cine re a (above) 

 and V. Berlandieri. 



VITIS 



(%-% in. in diam.), black without bloom, 

 with little juice and commonly contain- 

 ing but a single seed, which is large and 

 broad. Illinois and Missouri to Louisiana 

 and Texas. G.F. 2:341. 

 A handsome plant. V. 

 palmata, Vahl, founded 

 on Virginian specimens, 

 is probably V. vulpina, 

 although it is sometimes 

 made to replace the name 

 V. rubra. 



EE. Cordi folia - like 

 Grapes, with tliick- 

 ish and dull-colored 

 or grayish green Ivs. 

 often holding some 

 close, dull pubes- 

 cence below at ma- 

 turity and the shoots 

 and Ivs. nearly al- 

 ways more or less 

 pubescent when 

 young, the teeth 

 mostly short, the 

 point mostly rectang- 

 ular and conspicu- 

 ous (Nos. 14-18). 

 F. Plant strong and climb - 

 in</, with stout, per- 

 sistent tendrils. 

 G. Young shoots terete, 

 and glabrous or very 

 soon becoming so. 



14. cordifblia, Michx. ( V. 

 pullaria, LeConte). TRUE 

 FROST GRAPE, CHICKEN, RAC- 

 COON, or WINTER GRAPE. One 

 of the most vigorous of Amer- 

 ican vines, climbing to the 

 tops of the tallest trees, and 

 sometimes making a trunk 1 

 or 2 ft. in diam. : diaphragms 

 thick and strong: Ivs. long- 

 cordate, 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 some close and fine 

 inconspicuous grayish pubes- 

 cence 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 nu- 

 merous and small (about %in. 

 in 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 proba- 

 bly S. New York) to E. Kan., 

 Fla. and Texas. 



Var. ioetida, Engelm., has fetidly aromatic berries, 

 and grows in the Mississippi valley. 



Var. sempervirens, Munson. A glossy-leaved form 

 holding its foliage very late in the season: Ivs, some- 

 times suggesting forms of V. rubra. S. Fla. 



