422 VITACE.E. Vitis. 



Cat. ed. 3, 18 ; Munson, Traus. Am. Hort. Soc. iii. 132, Proc. Am. Pom. Soc. xx. 97, Wild 

 Grapes N. A. 9, Gard. & For. iii. 474, Am. Gard. xii. 659, & Kev. Vit. iii. 139 ; Foex, Vitic. 

 45 ; Viala & Txavaz, Vignes Am. 102. — Sandy banks, low hills and mountains, District of 

 Colunihia and S. Pennsylvania to Tennessee, Missouri, and S. W. Texas. 



Var. dissecta, Eggert, in lierb., is a form •with more ovate leaves and very long 

 teeth, and a strong tendency towards irregular lobiug. — Missouri. 



++ ++ Leaves ovate in outline, with a mostly well marked sinus. 

 = Diaphragms (in the nodes) thin : young shoots not red : leaves not deeply lobed. 



V. monticola, Buckley. (Sweet Mountain Grape.) A slender trailing or climbing 

 plant (reaching 20 to 30 feet in height) with very long and slender branches, the young 

 growth angled and floccose (sometimes glabrous), the diaphragms plane and rather thin : 

 leaves small and thin (rarely reaching 4 inches in width and generally from 2 to 3 inches 

 higii), cordate-ovate to triangular-ovate, with the basal sinus ranging from nearly truncate- 

 oblique to normally inverted-Usbapeti, rather dark green but glossy above and grayish 

 green below, when young more or less pubescent or even arachnoid below, the l)lade either 

 prominentlv notched on either upper margin or almost lobed, the point acute and often ])T0- 

 longed, margins irregularly notclied with smaller teeth than in V. nipestris : clusters short 

 and" broad, much branched ; berries medium or small (averaging about ^ inch in diameter), 

 black or light colored, seedv, sweet ; seeds large (about J inch long) and broad. — Pat. Off. 

 Rep. 1861, 485, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1861, 450, & 1870, 136; Planch. 1. c. 367; Munson, 

 Wild Grapes N. A. 13, Gard. & For. iii. 475, Am. Gard. xii. 586, Kev. Vit. iii. 81, & v. 166, 

 f. 54, 55 ; Foex, Vitic. 44 ; Viala & Ravaz, \'ignes Am. 123. T'. Texaua, Munson, Proc. Soc. 

 Prom. Agr. Sci. 1887, 59. V. Foexeana, Planch. 1. c. 616. — Limestone iiills in S. W. Texas. 

 This species has been the subject of much misunderstanding. Buckley's description seems 

 to be confused, but his specimens of V. monticola (in herb. Acad. Philad ) are clearly tiie 

 small-leaved and glabrous species here designated. See, also, Viala, " Une Mission Viticole 

 eu Ame'rique," 1889,67 ; and V. BerJnndieri, below. 



V. VUlpina, L. (Riverbank or Frost Grape.) A vigorous tall-climbing plant, with a 

 bright green cast to the foliage, normally glabrous young shoots, large stipules, and jdane 

 very thin diaphragms : leaves thin, medium to large, cordate-ovate, with a broad but usually 

 an evident sinus, mostly showing a tendency (which is sometimes pronounced) to 3 lobes, 

 generally glabrous and bright green below, but the veins and their angles often pubescent, 

 the margins variously deeply and irregularly toothed and sometimes cut, the teeth and the 

 long point prominently acute : fertile flowers bearing reclining or curved stamens, and the 

 sterile ones long and erect or ascending stamens : clusters medium to large on short pedun- 

 cles, branched (often very compound), the flowers sweet-scented ; berries small (less than \ 

 inch in diameter), purple-black with a heavy blue bloom, sour and usually austere, generally 

 ripening late (even after frost) ; seeds rather small and distinctly pyriform. — Spec. i. 203, 

 in part (see Britton in Bailey, Am. Gard. xiv. 353) ; Bailey, Am. Gard. xiv. 353, with plate ; 

 Rusby, Mem. Torr. Club, v. 221 ; Munson, Rev. Vit. iii. 161. V. riparia, Michx. Fl. ii. 231 ; 

 Sims,"Bot. Mag. t 2429 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl i. 244 ; Planch. 1. c. 352 ; Millffrdet, Vignes Am. 

 159, t. 18, 19, 23; Engelm. Bull. Torr. Club, vi. 233, & Bu.shberg Cat. ed. 3, 18; Munson, 

 Trans. Am. Hort. Soc. iii. 131, Proc. Am. Pom. Soc. xx. 97, Wild Grapes N. A. 9, Gard. & 

 For. iii. 474, & Am. Gard. xii. 659; Foe.x, Vitic. 49; Viala & Ravaz, Vignes Am. 132. 

 V. serotina, Bartram, Med. Rep. hex. 2, i. 22. V. odoratissima, Donn, Hort. Cantab, ed. 6, 

 62. ? V. IlUnornsis, & V. Missouriensis, Prince, Vine, 184, 185. ? V. tenuifolia, LeConte, 

 Proc. Acad. Philad. vi. 271, & Flora, 1853, 707. V. cordifolia, var. riparia. Gray, Man. 

 ed. 5, 113. V. vulpina, var. riparia, Regel, Act. Hort. Petrop. ii. 395. — New Brunswick, 

 ace. to Macoun, to N. Dakota, Kansas, and Colorado, and south to W. Virginia, Missouri, 

 and N. W. Texas; the commonest grape in the Northern States west of New England, 

 particularly abundant along streams. Variable in the flavor and maturity of the fruit. 

 Forms with petioles and under surfaces of leaves pubescent sometimes occur. Occasionally 

 hybridizes with V. Labrusca eastward, the hybrid being known by the tomentose young 

 shoots and unfolding leaves, and the darker foliage which is marked with rusty tomentura 

 along the veins of the less jagged leaves. 



Var. preecOX, Bailey, n. comb., is the June Grape of Missouri, the little sweet fruits 

 ripening in July. — V. riparia, var. pnacox, Engelm. ace. to Bailey, Am. Gard. xiv. 353. 



