NATIVE QRAPES 115 



and Illinois to the mountains of W. North Carolina, and to 

 W. Tennessee. Well distinguished from V. cesiwali 

 in its northern forms) by the absence of rufous tomentnm, 

 the blue-glaucous small-toothed leaves, and long i" 

 and tendrils. It lias been misunderstood because it loses ts 

 glaucous character in the fall. Of small promise horticul- 

 tural ly. 



' aribaa, DC. Climbing, with flocculent-woolly (or i 

 almost glabrous) and striate shoots; tendrils rarely < -« m t i n - 

 uous: leaves cordate-ovate or even broader, and mostly 

 acuminate-pointed, sometimes obscurely angled above l but 

 never lobed except now and then on yon - . becom- 



ing glabrous above but generally remaining rufous-1 



.v. the margins set with very small mucro-tipped Binuate 

 !• long and long-peduncled, generally large and 

 very compound : berry small ami globose, purp 

 obovate, grooved on thi dorsal Bide.— A widely distributed 

 and variable Bpecies in the American tropics, running iuto 

 white-leaved forma as in /'. Blancoi, Munson). Little 

 known in the United States: Louisiana, Lake city. N. Flor- 

 ida; swamj', near Jacksonville, Florida. 



bb. Leaves densely tomentose or felt-like beneath throui 

 the season, the covering white or rusty white. 



c. Tendrils intermittent (every third joint with neither tendril 

 nor inflorescence oppo.- 



;elm. Mustang Grape.) Plant Btrong and 

 high climbing, with densely woolly young growth (which is 



• rally rusty tipped), and very thick diaphragms: li 

 medium in Bize, and more or Less poplar-like, ranging from 



form-ovate to cordate-ovate or triangular-ovate, <lull 

 above bul very densely white-tomentose below and on the 

 petioles, the basal sinus very broad and open or usually 



none whatever (the base of the leaf then nearly trum 



deeply ."> 7 -lobed (with enlarging rounded sinuses on the 

 boots and mor ■ less Indistinctly lobed or 



On the normal growths, the margins wavy or >iii . 



toothed: stamens in the Bterile flowers long and Btrong, 



those in the fertile Bowers very Bhorl and laterally reflezed: 

 branched, bearing a dozen to twenty 



