14 MANUAL OF MODEKN VITICULTTTEE. 



taste. Seeds small, resembling those of V. Riparia, but 

 the chalaze and raphe are less apparent 

 (Fig. 6). Budding and florescence very 

 precocious. 



The V. Rupestris grows in the southern 

 Fig- Ru7e S s e trl ofV - &ey districts of the United States, where 

 it was discovered in more or less clayey 

 soils containing numerous pebbles of silica or hard lime- 

 stone.* 



(a) V. Berlandieri. Vigorous climbing habit. Trunk 

 of medium size. Canes with prominent ribs towards their 

 extremity, dull grey, hazel, or reddish, with fluffy hair. 

 Buds ash-grey or slightly violet. Young leaves bronze 

 colour, with brown hairs. Adult leaves of medium size, 

 almost entire, as wide as long, thick, a little parchment- 

 like, dark-green and shining on the upper-face, light-green 

 with stiff hair on the veins and sub-veins of the under-face ; 

 margins often curled underneath, teeth blunt and very short 

 (Fig. 8). Bunch medium, compact, elongated. Berries 

 very small, black, with bloom, spherical. Seeds medium, 

 stout, with a short beak, rounded and long, chalaze confused 

 with the raphe, which is not very prominent 

 (Fig. 7). 



The V. Berlandieri is only found in the 

 south of the United States, where it grows 

 naturally in the hottest and driest soils. . 

 It is found in chalky and calcareous soils, Flg B 7 e ri~andieri! V * 

 where the leaves retain their green colour, 

 as Viala ascertained during the course of his viticultural 

 mission in America in 1887. 



(e) V, Monticola. The first forms of this vine imported 

 into France were not very vigorous, but it seems that more 

 vigorous types exist in America. Its habit is semi-erect ; 

 canes of medium length, slender, with short or medium 

 internodes of brown mahogany colour, with flat nodes and a 

 few whitish hairs. Numerous secondary ramifications. 

 Leaves small, entire or trilobed, orbicular, or sometimes 

 ended by a point, which gives them a cordiform aspect ; 

 slightly folded conically, with very short and blunt teeth, 

 except the two ending the lateral lobes ; parenchyma 

 thick, parchment-like, cartilaginous, shining on -both faces, 



* Soils of such description are plentiful in the plains of the Norlh-Eastern districts of 

 Victoria. (Trans.) 



