108 THE EVOLUTION OF OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



gray below ;ui<l pubescent at maturity only on the veins, 

 the point only rarely prolonged and often nmtieous, the teeth 

 comparatively small anil notch -like and not prominently 

 acute, sinus more open: Moral organs very small; the sta- 

 mens reflexed in the fertile flowers; pedicels short, making 

 the bunch very compact : berries about the size of V. eordi- 

 folia, black and nearly or quite bloomless, late; seed small 

 and notched on top. — Mountain valleys, 800 to 3,000 feet 

 altitude, S. W. Virginia and adjacent West Virginia and 

 W. North Carolina, Tennessee and N. Georgia; also at com- 

 mon levels in the uplands of West -central Georgia. The 

 eastern counterpart of V. Berlandieri. Not promising for 

 the cultivator. 



Vitis Berlandieri, Planch. (Mountain, Spanish, Fall, or Winter 

 Grape.) A stocky, moderately climbing vine, with mostly 

 short internodes and rather thick diaphragms: leaves me- 

 dium-large, broadly cordate-ovate or cordate -orbicular (fre- 

 quently as broad as long), glabrous and glossy above, 

 covered at lirst with gray pubescence below but becoming 

 glabrous and even glossy except on the veins, the sinus 



mostly inverted-U-shaped in outline but often acute at the 



point of insertion of the petiole, the margin distinctly angled 

 above or shortly .'S-lobed and marked by rather large open 

 notch -like acute teeth of varying size, the apex mostly pro- 

 nounced and triangular-pointed: stamens long and ascending 

 in the sterile (lowers, laterally recurved in the fertile i 

 (dusters compact and compound, mostly strongly shouldered, 

 bearing numerous medium to small (%-inch or less in diam- 

 eter) purple and slightly glaucous very late berries, which 



are juicy and pleasant - tasted ; seed (frequently only 



medium to small.— Limestone soils along streams and hills, 

 S. W. Texas and adjacent Mexico. Well marked by the 



gray-veined under surface of the leaves. No varieties in 



cultivation, and gives little promise in that direction, al- 

 though it crosses with one or two other Bpeoies; but valu- 

 able as phylloxera-proof stock on limy soils. 

 Vitis cinerea, Bngelm. Sweet Winter Qrape.) climbing high, 



with medium to long internodes and thick and strong dia- 

 phragm-; leaves large, broadly cordate ovate to triangulat- 



