GRAPE VINES. 15 



given to all the small black Grapes, as Fox Grape to all 

 the larg;e and tough indifferently. 



26. F. columhina^ Raf. Pidgeon Grape. Branches 

 round, smooth. Petioles round, subequal nearly smooth. 

 Leaves palmate 5 lobed, base subreniform, lobes bilobe, 

 terminal trilobe, lobules unecjually ovate angular acute, 

 sinusses rounded notched, teeth remote callose : upper 

 surface smooth, beneath nerves pubescent and rusty. 

 Racemes slender. Large vine, growing from New York 

 to Louisiana, in woods, somewhat similar to V. multilo- 

 ba in tlie shape of the leaves, but berries small, blackish, 

 sweetish, eaten by the wild pidgeons like man}^ others. 



£7. V. popidifolia, H^if. Poplar Grape. Branches slen- 

 der, green, smooth and striated. Petioles short, half in 

 length, slender striated, pilose above. Leaves ovate del- 

 toid, acuminate, base truncate or reniform, end hardly 

 trifid, acutely serrate, smooth on both sides, nerves pi- 

 lose above and beneath, pale beneath. Fruit small and 

 black. Pennsylvania and Alleghany mountains. Leaves 

 4 inches long, 3 broad, petioles 2. Fruit very small, bit- 

 terish, bad tasted. 



28. V. cordifolia, Mx. P. N. {V.vitlpina, Torrey and 

 Eaton.) Frost Grape. Branches round and smooth. Pe- 

 tioles slender subequal pilose. Leaves cordate acumi- 

 nate, sometimes angular, unequally serrate, smooth on 

 both sides, nerves pilose. Racemes loose multitlore. Ber- 

 ries small, pale, acid. In woods and near streams from 

 New York to Carolina. Leaves three to four inches 

 broad. This is one of the Fox Grapes of the Northern 

 States, but very different from the V. latifolia, V. la- 

 bruscoides, and the Southern Muscadine Fox Grapes. 

 It is the Winter or Frost Grape of the Southern States : 

 they are small, acid, of a pale or amber color. 



29. V. riparia of Pursh, Elliot, Torrey, &c. River 

 Grape. Branches smooth striated. Petioles striated pi- 

 lose subequal. Leaves small reniform trifid acuminate, 

 with large unequal acute teeth, smooth above, hardly 

 glaucous beneath, with nerves and margin pilose. Ra- 

 cemes compound. Berries small. On the banks of streams 



"from New York to Carolina. Flowers very sweet scent- 

 ed ; the sterile plant is cultivated under the name of 

 Bermuda vine and Mignonette vine, for the profusion of 



