THE .K-TIVAI.IS GRAPES 113 



Strong, tall -climbing vine, with medium -short intern 

 thick diaphragms, and often pnbeseenl petioles: leaves m 

 large, thinnish at first Kut becoming rather thick, ovate- 

 cordate to ronnd-eordate in outline, the sinus either deep 

 (the basal lobes often overlapping) or broad and open, the 

 limb always lobed or prominently angled, the lobes either 

 3 or 5, in the latter ease the lobal sinuses usually enlarged 

 and rounded at the extremity, the apex of the reaf broadly 

 and often obtusely triangular, the upper Burface dull and 

 i'»-i-oming glabrous and the under Burface retaining a cover- 

 ing of copion- :■ red-brown pubescence which clings 

 to the veins and draws together in many small tufty massi 9! 

 stamens infertile dowers reflexed and laterally bent: elus- 



- mostly long and long-pednncled, not greatly branched 

 or even nearly Bimple (mostly interrupted when in flov 

 bearing small (%-ineb or less in diameter . black, glaucous 

 berries, which have a tough skin, and a pulp ranging from 

 dryish and astringent to juicy and Bweet; edium size 



(%-ineh or !• . two to four.— Chemung county, New 



Fork, and Long island to central Florida, and westward 

 through B. Pennsylvania to the - . and .Missouri, a 



marked type among American grapes, being readily dis- 

 tinguished from other eddish fuzz of the 

 under aides of the leaves. Mosl of the tomentose -leaved 

 species have been al one time <>r another confounded with 

 it, I. ut when allowed to stand t>y itself, it is not a difficult 

 species to und< rstand. I ftvalia has given rise to more 

 cultivated varieties than any other • ccepl V. /.-/• 

 •'■e page 81). Ifichaux's original - - are well 



terved in Paris, and they have been properly understood 

 by American I 



Vat. gUiuca, Bailey. Leaves (and mature s 'nine 



on the body beneath, bul the veins rusty: berries and - 

 •■ r. s. W. Missouri to N.Texas. Much like V. bia 

 i.ut leaves thicker and mere pnbeseenl below, and tipi 



ahOOtS ru-.tyti.ine! | 



' ..;„</, Ifnnson. (Post-oak, Pine-wood, or Turkey 



ky than I. mttoaUi, olimbing Mgh upon 



bul Cswming ■ bushy slump when not finding snpport: 



