THE COBDIPOLLA GRAPES 1<>7 



or Winter Grape.) One of the most vigorous of American 

 vines, elimbing tu the tops of the tallest trees, and some- 

 times making a trunk 1 or - feel In diameter: internodes 

 long; the diaphragms thick and Btrong: petioles long; leaves 

 long-cordate, triangular-eordate with a rounded base, or 

 cordate ovate, undivided bul sometimes very indistinctly 

 3-lobed or 3 -angled, the basal sinus rather deep and narrow 

 and normally acute, the margin with largo angular acute 

 teeth of different sizes, and the point long and acute, the 

 npper Burface glossy and the lower bright green and either 

 becoming perfectly glabrous or bearing Borne close and fine 

 inconspicuous grayish pubescence on the veins: ettamens 

 erect in the sterile flowers and short reflexed-curved in the 

 fertile ones: clusters long and very many-flowered, most of 

 the pedicels branched or at least bearing a cluster <>t' flow- 

 ers: berries numerous and small aboul ^-inch in diameter), 

 in a loose bunch, black and only very slightly glaucous, late 

 and persistent, with a thick skin and little pulp, becoming 

 edible after frost : seeds medium and broad. — In thickets 

 uinl along Btreams from Pennsylvania (and probably S. New 

 fork) to K. Kansas and southwards to Florida and Texas. 

 It gives little promise to the experimenter. 

 fur. foBtida, ESngelm., has fetidly aromatic berries, and grows 

 in the Mississippi Valley. 



Far. 8empervirens, sfunson. A glossy-leaved form, holding its 

 foliage very late in the Beason: leaves Bometimes suggesting 

 forms of V. palmata.S. Florida. 



in,-. Helleri, Bailey. Leaves more circular i. e., lacking the 

 lung point), and the teeth round-obtuse and ending in a 

 short mucro.— Kerr county, B. Texas, 1,600 to 2,000 feet. 



i>i). Fonng shoots angled, and covered the first year with to- 



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\',t,s Bailey ana, Munson. ( 'Possum Grape.) Less vigorous 

 climber than V. cor di folia, rather slender, with short inter 



nodes and very many short Bide shoots: petioles Bhorter and 



often pubescent; leaves frequently smaller, the larger ones 

 shortly but distinctly :; lobed (lobes mostly pointed and 

 much ip t green but not shining above and 



