612 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



VITIS L. S. PL 1 : 200. 1753. GRAPEVINE. ' 



Thirty species m northern and temperate regions of both hemispheres. Europe, 

 northern Asia. North America, 15 ; Atlantic, 14. Woody climbers. 



Vitia aestivalis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 230. 1803. SUMMER GRAPE. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 688. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 113. Chap. Fl. 71. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:62. 



NORTHERN MEXICO. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Southern Ontario; southern New England west 

 to Minnesota and Nebraska, south to western Texas, and from New York to Florida. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. In damp thickets and bottom lauds. Flowers April, 

 May; fruit ripe August, September. Berries black with a bloom, pleasant. Com- 

 mon. Ascends the highest trees. In rich bottoms, 4 to (> inches in diameter. 



Economic uses: One of the most important of American wine grapes; mother 

 plant of the Cunningham, Herbemont, Lenoir, and Black Spanish varieties of the 

 Gulf region. 



Type locality : " Hab. in sylvis, a Virginia ad Carolinam." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Vitis cinerea Eugelm. in Bushberg, Cat. ed. 3, 17. 1883. DOWNY GRAPH. 



Vitia aeativalis var. cinerea Engelrn. in Gray, Man. ed. 5, 679. 1867. 



Gray. Man. ed. 6, 113. Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 73. 



Carolinian and Louisiaiiian areas. Central Illinois to Kansas, and to Texas, Ten- 

 nessee, and Mississippi. 



ALABAMA : Central Prairie region to Coast plain. Low thickets, banks of streams. 

 Hale County, Gallion, Big Prairie Creek. Mobile County, Springhill, Steins Creek. 



Type locality : "Rich bottom lauds in the Mississippi Valley, Illinois and south- 

 ward." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Vitis cordifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 231. 1803. WINTER GRAPE. FROST GRAPE. 



Ell. Sk. 2:688. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 113. Chap. Fl. 71. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:62. 



Alleghenian to Carolinian area. Ontario; New England west to Minnesota, 

 Nebraska, and Kansas, south to Arkansas and Texas, and to Tennessee and Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Banks of streams. Lee County, Auburn (Baker <)' 

 Earle"). Blount County, Warnock Mountain, about 800 feet. Clay County, Shinbone 

 Valley, Elders, 1,000 feet. Frequent in the higher valleys ; not met with in the low 

 country. 



Type locality: "Hab. a Pensylvania ad Floridam." 



Herb. Mohr. 



Vitis bicolor Le Conte, Proc. Acad. Phila. 6 : 272. 1852. 



BLUE GRAPE on WINTER GRAPE. 



Vitis aestivalis var. bicolor Gray, Man. ed. 6, 113. 1890. 



V. aestivalis Darlington, Flora Cestrica, 151. 1837. Fide Le Conte. Not Michx. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 1. c. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. Northern New York to North Carolina. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Rocky summits. Calhoun County, Anniston, high- 

 est ridges, 800 to 1,000 feet, with Pinus australis and Quercus prinus; trailing over 

 the rocks of flinty chert. Collected September 19, with ripe fruit. Talladega County, 

 Alpine Mountains, 1,800 feet. Che-aw-ha Mountains, 2,400 feet, on cliffs, associ- 

 ated with Lonicera flava, Kubus villosus, and Robinia viscosa. The trailing vines 

 from 10 to 12 feet long. Ripe berries black, without bloom, juicy, sweet, and of a 

 pleasant flavor, worthy the attention of the cultivator. 



Type locality: "From Pennsylvania to Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



V. vulpina L. Sp. PI. 1:203. 1753. RIVERSIDE GRAPE. 



Vitis riparia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 231. 1803. 



Vitis cordifolia var. riparia Gray, Man. ed. 5, 113. 1867. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 688. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 114. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 63. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. New Brunswick and Ontario to Lake Winnipeg ; 

 New England west to Minnesota and Nebraska, south to Missouri and Texas, 

 Florida, and Louisiana. 



1 George Engelmann, The True Grapevines of the United States, in Bushberg, Cat. 

 ed. 3, St. Louis. 1883. 



