110 THE EVOLUTION' OF OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



uous or very indistinctly 3-lobed (or sometimes prominently 

 lobed on young growths), the leaves and shoots white-woolly 

 when young, but becoming nearly glabrous with age : sta- 

 mens ascending in sterile flowers and recurved in the fertile 

 ones: bunches small and compound, not greatly, if at all, 

 exceeding the leaves, bearing 20 to 40 small black berries 

 of pleasant taste; seeds 2 to 3, medium size.— Along river 

 banks. \V. Texas to New Mexico and Arizona, mostly south 

 of the 35th parallel, to S. E. California and X. Mexico. Not 

 promising hortieulturally 

 Far. glabra, Munson. Plant glabrous, with glossy and mostly 

 thinner and larger leaves. — In mountain gulches and eafions, 

 with the species and ranging northwards into S. Utah. 

 Readily distinguished from V. )ii<>nti<-nhi by its triangular- 

 pointed and small-toothed leaves. 

 bbb. Orbicular- scallop -leaved species of the Pacific <'<>a>t. 

 Vitis Calif ornica, Benth. Vigorous species, tall-climbing upon trees 

 (Fig. 19), but making bushy clumps when not finding support, 

 the nodes large and diaphragms rather thin: leaves mostly 

 round-reniform (the broader ones the shape of a fa 

 hoof-print), rather thin, either glabrous and glossy or (more 

 commonly i eottony-canescent until half grown and usually 

 remaining plainly pubescent below, the sinus ranging from 

 very narrow ami deep to broad and open, the margins vary- 

 ing (on the same vine) from finely blunt -toothed to COS 

 scallop -toothed the latter a characteristic feature), the upper 



portion of the Made either pertYr 1 1 v continuous and rounded 

 or sometimes indistinctly 3-lobed and terminating in a very 



short apex: bunches medium, mostly long-peduncled and 

 forked, the numerous small berries glaucous-white, Beedy 



and dry bul of fair flavor; seed large ' ( - to ,';-in.-h long), 



prominently pyriform. — Along streams in central and X. Cal- 

 ifornia and s. Oregon. Leaves becoming handsomely colored 

 and mottled in fall. Of small promise liort iculturally . 



a.\. i ived (J rapes, marked by thick or at least firm 



foliage, the leaves prominently rusty or white-tomentoa 

 glaucous-blue below. I', cinerea, V. Arieonica, and possibly 

 V. Catifornica may be sought here; and late-gathered forms 

 ,,i i . bteohr may i>e looked for in A. 



