Vili^. VITACK.E. 420 



pedicels short, niakinc; tlie Imnch vorv conijact : bcrrien about tlio size of V. mrdifnlui. black 

 aiid nearly or (juiti' bloomk-ss, late ; sfc<l small ami notciuMl on top. — Vitin Hailevana (a 

 leaflet issued .June 20, IS'J3), &. Kev. Vit. vi.42l ; Itusby, Meni. 'I'orr. Cluli, v. 220. V. Vir- 

 (jinitina, Muu.son, Wild (irapcs N. A. U, Gard. & For. iii. 475, & Am. (iard. xii. 659, not 

 Lam. — .Mountain valleys, 800 to .'JOOO feet altitude, Sontliwe.stern \'irj;iriia anil adjacent 

 We,-<t \'iri;inia and Western North Carolina, Tennessee and N.CIeorfjia; also . it eonumm 

 levels in the uplands of West<entral (ieor^ia. 'I'he eiustern counterpart of I', litrliindieri. 

 V. Berlandieri, 1'i.anch. (MorNT.viN, Spanish, Fall, or Wintkk (Jkai-k.) A 8t<Kky 

 moderately climliing vine, with mostly short internodes and rather thick diaphra^^ms : 

 leaves medium-larj^e, broadly eor(late-<jvate orcordate-oriticular (frei|uently as broad as lonj;), 

 glabrous au<l glos.sy ai)Ove, covered at first with gray i)ubescence ImIow but becoming gla- 

 brous and even glo.s.sy except ou the veins, the sinus mostly invertefl-l'-shaped in outline but 

 often acute at the point of insertion of the petiole, the margin distinctly angled above 

 or shortly 3-lobed and marked by rather large o]ien notch-like acute teeth of varving 

 size, the apex mostly jnonounced an<l triangular-])ointed : stamens long and ascending in 

 the .sterile flowers, laterally recurved in the fertile ones : clu.sters compact and compound, 

 mostly .strongly shouldered, bearing numerous medium to small (^ inch or le.ss in diameter) 

 purple and slightly glaucous very late berries which are juicy and j)lea.sant-tasted ; seed (fre- 

 quently oidy I) medium to small. — Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, xci. 425-428, Jour. 

 Vigue Am. 1880, .■H8, & in DC. Mouogr. Phaner. v. 341 ; Foex, Vitic. 42; Munson, Gard. 

 & For. iii. 475, Wild Grapes N. A. 14, Am. Gard. xii. 65!i, Rev. Vit. iii. 81, & vi. 422, f. 62 ; 

 Viala & Ravaz, Vignes Am. 71. V. montlrohi, Engelm. Uushberg Cat. ed. 3, 15; Millardet, 

 Vignes Am. 199, t. 21 ; Munson, Trau.s. Am. Ilort. Soc. iii. 134, & Proc. Am. Pom. Soc. xx. 

 97 ; not Buckley. 1'. astivalis, var. moiitico/a, Engelm. Am. Nat. ii. 321. — Limestone soils 

 along streams and hills, S. W. Texas. Well marked by the gray-veinerl under surface of the 

 leaves. (Adj. Mex.) 



V. Cinerea, En<;i:lm. (Sweet Winter Ghai-e.) Climbing high, with medium to long 

 internodes and thick and strong diaphragms : leaves large, broadly cordate-ovate to trian- 

 gular-cordate-ovate (generally longer than broad), the sinus mostly wide and obtuse, the 

 margin small-notched (teeth much smaller than in T'. lierhmdieri) or sometimes almost 

 entire, mostly distinctly and divaricately 3-angled or shortly 3-lobed towards tlie apex, the 

 triangular apex large and j)rominent, the upper surface cobwebby when young but becoming 

 dull dark green (not glossy), the under surface remaining ash-gray or dungray webby- 

 pubescent: stamens in .sterile flowers long, slender and ascending, in the fertile ones short, 

 and laterally recurved : cluster mostly loose and often straggling, containing many small 

 black berries, the.se only slightly if at all glaucous, rijiening very late, and after frost 

 becoming sweet and plea.sant ; seeds small to medium. — Bushberg Cat. ed. 3, 16; IMancb. 

 1. c. 343 ; Millardet, Vignes Am. 193, t. 18, 20, 24 ; Muu.son, Trans. Am. Ilort. Soc. iii. i;w, 

 Proc. Am. Pom. Soc. xx. 97, Wild Gr.apes N. A. 14, Gard. & For. iii. 475, Am. Gard. xii. 

 659, & Rev. Vit. vi. 423. f. 63 ; Foex, Vitic. 39 ; Viala & Ravaz, Vignes Am. 99. I', astivalis, 

 YAT. ^ rinfiea, Kngelm. in (Jray, Man. ed. 5, 679. — Along .streams, mostly in limy soils, 

 Central Illinois to Kansas and Texas ; also N. Florida. Readily distinguished from I', asti- 

 valis by the tri:uigular-to])ped sharply 3-lobed ash-gray leaves and the gray tomeuturo of 

 the young growth. (Me.x.) 



Var. Floridana, Munson. Growing tips rusty-tomentose, a.s are .sometimes the veins 

 on the undersides of the leaves: cluster longer-jieduncled and more compound. — Wild 

 Gra])es N. A. 14, Gard. & For. iii. 474, & Rev. Vit. vi. 424. — Manatee Co., Florida, and aji- 

 parently alst) in Arkansas ; not unlikely a compound with \'. astiralis, but the leaves ha\e 

 the characteristic shape of ^'.riiiircd. Not to be confounded with any form of V. CariUni, 

 DC, because of the lobed triangular-top])ed leaves and much larger teeth. 



Var. canescens, Bailey, n. comb. A form with rounded or heart-like leaves, the 



upper h.ilf of the leaf Licking the triangular and 3-lobed shape of the type. — V. a-stiralis, 



var. ranfsrpits, Engelm. Am. Nat. ii. 32\, ^fide spec, in herb. Gr.-xy. — St. Lonis, Missouri, 



Engelmann, Efjfjert, and S. Illinois, Srhnerk, to Texas, Wriijht, and Cnrtiss no. 453 a, in part. 



++ -w- Plant scarcely climbing, the tendrils perishing if failing to find support. 



V. Arizonica, F.n.;ei.m. (Canon Gkai-e.) Plant weak, much branched, with short inter- 

 nodes and thick diaphragms, branchlets angled : leaves mostly small, cordate-ovate and 



