14 Dr. Engelmann. 
BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
Classification. 
cage! ey the large circular, though not very prom- 
inent, chalaza, which occupies the upper, and not the 
middie part of the seed. These five specimen seeds 
rep! ipal forms, but not all European 
grape seeds entirely agree with them. 
Fig. 33, Vitis -Vulpina (or Rotundifolia), from the 
South Carolina Muscadine pe, different from all 
a — plant differs from all the 
very flat, with straight sides, 
gieneeity or rather folded, on both 
surfaces, notched on top, with very narrow chalaza 
and no visible raphe. 
The North American _Grape-vines may be 
oe 
Bf rae = steading ies Seatac 
I. True Scotian with loose, ackay bark, 
climbing by the aid of forked tendrils, or sometimes 
beats abe id — ee — 
> 
i: Vets -. Secu el the northern Fox yi 
the mother of a great many cultivated yari 
ids. 
to 
By 
: 
ee 
1 
ye 
a. Leaves pubescent o: r floccose, especially on the under 
side and when young, often saciiniaa glabrous with 
age. 
Ban * Raphe on seed indistinct. 
(2. Viris Caypicans, Engelmann. The Mustang grape. 
of Texas. 
Viris CaRIBza, De Candolle. The West India 
grape; rare in Florida. 
Vitis CaLiFoRNica, Bentham. 
The California 
Virts Moxzicoza , Buckley, The Mountain grape 
of West 
Viris 
, Michaux. Summe 
ey and Sonticen States, with several va- 
The Downy grape of 
i 
_*® Raphe indistinct, 
adhering bark, which only in the oller seme 
off; aerial roots from: inel inclined tranks i 
tendrils 
Tr grape of the | 
Rafinesque, Le Conte and others, have in 
times gone by attempted to distinguish and 
rather unnaturally, to contract them and unite 
them with Old World species. Vitis Se 
has resulted according to his views, fro e 
hybridization of several of these species. 
add the important practical remarks which 
the subject ealls for. 
1. Vitis Laprusca, Linneus. Usually not 
large; climbing over bushes or small trees, 
occasi y reaching the tops of the highest 
trees ; distinguished from all the ovher 
species, as has been stated above, by its con- 
tinuous tendrils and consequently by its con- 
tinuous (two to often four or six) clusters of 
flowers and fruit; stipules middle-sized, about 
two lines long, or less; leaves large (four to 
six inches wide), thick, of firm texture, entire 
or in some forms deep! 
in the wild plant persists on the under 
side, but almost disappears in the mature leaf 
of some cultivated varieties; berries large in 
middle sized, or, in many cultivated forms, 
ose large bunches, bearing 2 or 3 or even 4 
s, large, notched, without visible raphe. 
fe table of seeds, page 13, figs. 1 and 2.) 
species, usually known as the Fox 
grape, or Northern Fox grape, is a native of 
the i on, and of their seaage’ 
slope to t from New 
South pate where it prefers wet chen 
or granitic soil. Here and there it descends 
_ along streams to the western slope of the 
mountains, but is a stranger to the Missis- 
sippi Valley proper. 
As the Labrusea generally grows on granitic 
soil or granitic detrities, which may 
es; a few piodueed 
by. nurserymen, but most of them pleked up in 
; ae easily 
Large and peter palo : 
2s of 'Y, cestivalis are, in the West and 
my ay 
