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VITIS 



simple or very nearly so, in anthesis about the length 

 f the peduncle: berries large and nearly spherical, 

 ranging from purple-black (the common color) to red- 

 ibrown and amber -green, generally falling from the 

 pedicel when ripe, variable in taste but mostly sweetish 



musky and some- 

 times slightly 

 astringent, the skin 

 thick and tough : 

 seeds very large and 

 thick. New England 

 and southwards in 

 the Alleghany re- 

 gion and highlands 

 to west-central 

 Georgia. Not known 

 to occur west of E. 

 New York in the 

 North, but reported 

 from S. Indiana. 

 The parent of the 

 greater part of 

 American cultivated 

 Grapes. It is often 

 confounded with V. 

 (fstivalis in the 

 South, from which 

 it is distinguished 

 by the habitually 

 continuous tendrils, 

 the more felt - like 

 Ivs. which are not 

 floccose, and espe- 

 cially by the small- 

 toothed Ivs., .very 

 short clusters and 

 large berries and 

 seeds. 



BB. Skin and pulp firmly cohering in the ripe fruit. 



28. vinifera, Linn. WINE GRAPE. EUROPEAN GRAPE. 

 Fig. 2704. Young growth smooth or floccose, the plant 

 not so high climbing as most American species: ten- 

 drils intermittent: Ivs. mostly thinnish, rounded, with 

 a deep sinus and the basal lobes usually overlapping, 

 tomentose or glabrous beneath, the margins coarsely 

 notched or jagged: clusters large and long, the berries 

 usually oval or oblong, although many varieties are glob- 

 ular-fruited. Probably native to the Caspian or Cau- 

 casus region and western India. Var. lacinidsa, Hort., 

 has much-cut foliage; handsome. Gn. 54, p. 425. Cult, 

 from the earliest times, and the Grape of history. Now 

 greatly varied. The hothouse Grapes, as Black Ham- 

 burg, Barbarossa, are of this species; also the vineyard 

 Grapes of California. Not hardy in the northern states 

 and very subject to phylloxera (root-louse) and mildew. 

 Kegel, a Russian botanist, considered the Wine Grape 

 to be a hybrid of two species that he characterized as V. 

 Jjabrusca and V. vulpina, but this view is not accepted. 



V. Amurensis, Rupr., is much like V. vinifera, sometimes 

 ""22? a il road for the Purple tint of its young growth. Gn. 54 

 D.425.-F. Bainesii, Hook. (Cissus Bainesii, Planch., and by 



VITTARIA 



him referred to C. 1'urrori). A most remarkable species, the 

 trunk being condensed into a turnip-like body a few inches in 

 diam.: Ivs. mostly compound, the 3 It'ts. dentate, Ivs. all borne 

 on short, succulent branches: tendrils none: fls. greenish, in 

 clusters usually raised above the leaves. S. Afr. B.M. 5472. 

 V. hetervphylla, Thunb.=Ampelopsis heterophylla. V. incon- 

 stans, Miq.=Ampelopsis tricuspidata. V. Japvnica, Thunb. 

 See Cissus Japonica. V. lanata, Roxbg. Vigorous species 

 with large, cordate-ovate Ivs., with small apiculate teeth and 

 very white-tomentose beneath. China. Assumes handsome 

 color in fall. V. Lindeni, Hort. See Cissus Lindeni. V. Pag- 

 nucrii, Romanet (Ampelopsis Davidiana, Mott. Ampelovitis 

 Davidiaiia, Carr. Vitis Davidiana, Hort. in part ?). Climbing: 

 tendrils intermittent: Ivs. mostly small, very various, some- 

 times 3-5-foliolate but usually only 3-lobed or even ovate-cor- 

 date and the margin nearly or quite continuous, the edges mu- 

 cronate-dentate, whitish beneath. China. Has much the as- 

 pect of an Ampelopsis. V. Romaneti, Romanet (Spinovitis 

 Davidii, Carr. ? Ampelovitis intermedia, Carr. Vitis Davidiana, 

 Hort. in part ?). Steins very hairy or almost spiny, the hairs 

 glandular and purplish: tendrils intermittent: Ivs. large, cor- 

 date-orbicular, shallowly 3-lobed. strongly crenate-dentate, be- 

 coming nearly or quiteglabrous above, hairy beneath: clusters 

 3-4 in. long, the berries black, small, edible. Vigorous vine 

 from China, little known in this country and its hardiness in 

 the northern states not yet tested. R.H. 1885, p. 55. 189 <: 232 

 (variegated form said to belong to this species). Apparently 

 closely allied to V Coignetias, from which the hairiness distin- 

 guishes it. V. rfitilans, Carr., R.H. 1890:444, belongs with V. 

 Romaneti. V. serjancefolia, Maxim., is Ampelopsis serjana?fo- 

 lia. Gn. 54, p 427. V. striata, Miq., see Cissus atriata. F. 

 Thuribergii, Regel, is V. Amurensis. V. tricuspidata, Lynch= 

 Ampelopsis tricuspidata. L H B 



VITTADINIA (Dr. C. Vittadini, an Austrian who 

 wrote on fungi 1826-1842). Comp6sitit. About 14 spe- 

 cies of perennial plants, natives of Australia, New Zea- 

 land, S. Amer. and Hawaiian Islands. Herbs, with a 

 thick caudex, or branching subshrubs: Ivs. alternate, 

 entire or variously cut: heads rather small, with a yel- 

 low disk and white or blue rays, terminal, solitary or in 

 loose, leafy corymbs: involucre of several rows: rays 

 pistillate, numerous, crowded, in more than one row: 

 akenes narrow, compressed or flat, with or without ribs 

 on the faces: pappus of numerous, often unequal capil- 

 lary bristles. The genus is closely related to Erigeron, 

 differing in habit and in the appendages of the style- 

 branches, those of Erigeron being short, while those of 

 Vittadinia are awl-shaped. 



Vittadinia triloba of the California trade is said by 

 Dr. Franeeschi, of Santa Barbara, to be "a charming 

 dwarf plant, well suited for rockeries, borders and 

 hanging baskets; covered with myriads of daisy-like 

 white flowers." However, V, triloba of the trade is not 

 V. triloba of the botanists; the latter is a synonym of 

 V. australis, of which a description taken from Flora 

 Australiensis is here given for comparison. The plant 

 known to the California trade as V. triloba has been 

 examined by J. Burtt Davy, who sends the following 

 account: " V. triloba, Hort., not DC., the MEXICAN 

 DAISY, is really an Erigeron and should be known as 

 Erigeron mucronatus, DC. Fig. 2705. It is a much- 

 branched perennial, 6-12 in. high: Ivs. alternate, vari- 

 able, M-l in. long, from linear-subulate or lanceolate to 

 obovate or oblanceolate-cuneate, entire, toothed, or 3-sev- 

 eral lobed: peduncles 1-2 in. long, solitary: heads daisy- 

 like, about % in. diam.; rays numerous, narrow, white 

 above, purple on the back, especially in age; style-tips 

 obtuse. A useful border-plant, looking best in a maas 

 or as an edging; drought-resistant, hardy and becom- 

 ing naturalized near San Francisco; readily propagated 

 by cuttings. The freshly broken stems smell strongly 

 of Prussic acid. Fls. July-Sept. " 



australis, A. Rich. ( V. triloba, DC., not Hort.). 

 Herbaceous plant of uncertain duration, 1 ft. high or 

 less, tomentose: Ivs. obovate or spatulate to linear- 

 cuneate, entire or coarsely 3-toothed or lobed: heads 

 solitary: rays narrow: said to be revolute (which may 

 apply only to dried specimens). Australia, Tasmania. 

 Has 4 distinct botanical varieties. \\r. M. 



VITTABIA (Latin, a fillet or head-band). Polypo- 

 didcece. A genus of ferns with narrow, grass-like foli- 

 age, growing pendent from trees. V. lineata, Swz., is a 

 tropical American species which is found as far north 

 as central Florida, where it grows on the cabbage pal. 

 metto. Rare in cultivation. L> M . UNDERWOOD. 



