Dr Engelmann. 
GRAPE MANUAL. 
Classification. 15 
but the two may always be distinguished by 
the characters indica 
It is also the species which has most gen- 
erally been used as one of the parents (mostly 
the mother) in artificial hybridization, and as 
itis the most individualized or specialized of | 
all our (perhaps of al] known) Grape-vines, its 
e 
tefer the questionable form; of which I shall 
have to add 
CANDICANS, Englemann. (VF, 
fore iti i Buckley.) "The Mustang grape 
of T tall climber, with rather large, 
a few words below, under the § 
ropean vines in California vineyards which 
have been attacked by the Phylloxera. For 
even this Grape-vine, which is a native of a 
country originally entirely free from the insect, 
is as proof against itas any of our Mississippi 
Valley vines. 
5. Vitis MontTiIcona, Buckley. bneeamaes A a 
e bunches; stipules very short 
: (+ line long); ig toe deeply cordate, with a 
ro 
rounded, almost tdclilona leaves, white cot- 
tony on the under side, bearing large berries, 
different colors, greenish, claret and bluish- | 
black ; and which, in its native country, are | 
made into wine. In young shoots and sprouts | 
the leaves are usually deeply and elegantly | 
many-lobed, which, with the contrast of the 
deep green upper and pure white under sur- | 
face, would make this species a most elegant 
severe frost. 
down and covering it with soil. 
grows in the lower country, as well as on the 
ealeareous hills, and extends even into the 
itic region. It has also n found in 
Florida, where many Texas plait are again 
met with. The Florida form, at one time takev 
for Vitis caribeea, but quite distinct from it, 
has shorter and comparatively thicker seeds. 
(Fig. 8.) 
3. Vitis CaRIB#®A, De Candolle, is a West 
species which has lately found its 
with other tropical plants, into southern 
a. It has a downy, cordate leaf, not 
lobed, but characterized by the small but very 
sharp, distant teeth. Its black berries are small 
and mostly bear but one or two seeds. [I find 
the Florida seeds (fig. 9) which were kindly 
sent to me by Mr. A. H. Curtiss, the discoverer, 
larger than those of the West Indian type. 
ic coast; a low 
bush a foot or two high, in dry beds of streams 
egon; it becomes a tall climber 
in southern California, with a stem 3 inches or 
more in diameter; it is distinguished by its 
cordate, rounded, whitish, downy leaves and 
small black berries in large bunches ; the ob- 
fais 
10 and 11), | 
onan Pag! with only a — “of a —— 
: ‘ et | chalaza rather narrow, extending 
vine for arbors, if it could be protected from | ; : 
- Vv visibl e. 
Wha done te déan Ov lavien A a broad groove, but without a visible xapP 
In Texas it 
chalaza. of the insect in 
this species, i hak ts had wetety Ose shy 
oe a a south 
rtly three-lobed, edged 
on the upper surface, but the older ones ver 
| smooth and often conspicuou hining below 
which, like those of the wild Labrusca, show | nee ee ee ee 
This is one of the smaller species and is pe- 
culiar to the hilly, cretaceous region of western 
Texas, not extending to the lower country nor 
casionally cultivated about San Antonio, when 
the bunches, as well as the berries, b 
little mountain grape,’’ understood what he 
meant. Buckley’s mention of a middle sized 
green, if palatable berry has misled French © 
botanists to look for this gras among the 
numerous forms of Labrusca, and Prof. Plan- oe 
chon pheactore changer the name to ts cect itedl 
landieri. In B 36 S 
eat naan said that there exists a form a of aS 
this species, especially about Feesenenabare - 
and on the borders of the Llano o 
his specimens Tfound the first Phviloxers gulls a 
which, thus accidentally prese reserved, p 
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