VITACEAE 263 



Grows mostly in dry woods and thickets ; not common. 



IB. Near Triana, Madison County, on limestone knob near Cedar 

 Plains, Morgan County, and on slopes of Warnock Mountain, Blount 

 County. 



3. Limestone slopes near Valley Head, DeKalb County, and limestone 

 hill near Lagarde, Etowah County. 



5. Clay County (Mohr). Lee County (Baker & Earle). 



Vitis vulpina, L. (V. riparia, Mx.) (River Grape.) 



According to Dr. Mohr this is especially resistant to the in- 

 sect pest Phylloxera, and is therefore largely used in Europe as a 

 stock for grafting the wine grapes on. 

 Grows mostly on river banks. 



7. Along the Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers, in Greene, Marengo and 

 Sumter Counties. 



9. Sumter County. 



low. Sumter and Choctaw Counties. Lisbon, Clarke County (Mohr). 



11. Choctaw County. 



Vitis rotundifolia, Mx. {V. vulpina. T. & G.) 



Muscadine, (or Bullace.) 



A well-known species, with large thick-skinned dark purple 

 berries, ripe in late summer, which are eaten by boys on foraging 

 expeditions, and also peddled in the towns and occasionally sold in 

 stores. The Scuppernong is a horticultural variety, commonly cul- 

 tivated in the South, with larger, paler and sweeter berries. The 

 flowers furnish honey. 



Grows in various places protected from fire, such as dry 



woods, thickets, hammocks, swamps, dunes, and roadsides. 



Widely distributed over the state, but commonest in the coastal 



plain. 



lA. Bluffs on south side of Mussel Shoals, Colbert County. 

 2A. Cullman, Blount and Etowah Counties. 

 2B. Jefferson and Tuscaloosa Counties. 



3. St. Clair County. 



4. Near Ironaton Gap and Hollins. 



5. Chambers County (and doubtless in all the others). 

 6A. Tuscaloosa and Elmore Counties. 



6B. Tuscaloosa and Autauga Counties. 



6C. Greene, Autauga, Macon, and doubtless all the other counties. 



7. Dallas and Montgomery Counties. 



8. Wilcox County. 



lOE. Frequent throughout. 



low. Butler, Conecuh, Monroe and Choctaw Counties. 



11. Choctaw, Clarke and Monroe Counties. 



12. Geneva County. 



13. Washington and Mobile Counties. 

 15. Baldwin Countv. 



