improved varieties. So far as observed, staminate vines of this species are much fewer than are 

 the fertile vines in wild nature. 



I now have many excellent varieties of this, found wild, that will do quite well to cultivate 

 for red wine, as it is a very prolific species. I have made hybrids of it with V. rupesiris, V. monii- 

 cola, and V. Berlandieri, and with Brilliant and other fine varieties, which are beautiful and 

 vigorous. 



For some six years I had been receiving many specimens of this species from Johnson, Llano, 

 Lampasas, Bell, Mills and other counties, regarding it as a hybrid form, and of a similar character 

 to Plachon's V. Champini, which he himself seemed to regard as a young species developed from 

 hybrid strains (p. 237, Ampelidfe, Prod. Vol. 5, 2nd part). 



Now having seen many plants of this species growing not very numerously in Bell County 

 and having many from there as well as from the other counties above named, and having hundreds 

 of seefllings growing from these various counties, all with quite uniform and very similar set of 

 characteristics not found among hybrids, I am compelled to regard this as a fairly good and 

 distinct species. It grows readily from cuttings, which is true of no other species found near 

 Belton, Texas, where this is most abundant on the high ridges, all other species there growing 

 from cuttings with the greatest difficulty. I have seen no V. rupestris in that vicinity, there being 

 only V monticola, V. candicans, and V . Berlandieri, besides this, so far as I have traveled or been 

 able to learn from others, and no combination of them could produce this one, having as early 

 foliation, flowering or ripening of fruit. Mr. F. M. Ramsey informed me that he had found this. 

 species quite abundant in some localities in Llano and Gillespie Counties. The vine is readily 

 distinguished by its aspect at a distance. 



In Llano, Gillespie, Mason, San Saba, and some adjoining counties where both this and 

 V . rupestris are native, they often are hybridized with each other. 



The fresh juice of the well ripened fruit, clarified by bringing to boiling point and skimming 

 and hermetically sealed in bottles as "unfermented wine" put up by the writer in past years, was. 

 invariably much preferred by all who tasted, to the juice of thoroughly ripened Delaware grapes, 

 treated in same way. 



It has been tried extensively in parts of California as a graft-stock for Vinifera, and found 

 very satisfactory, especially in limy, adobe, drouthy soils, and it is one of the most resistant 

 species against the Phylloxera and Anaheim disease. Mr. Wm. Pfeffer, of Cupertino, Cal., has. 

 tried this species extensively and very successfully as a graft-stock and has used it in hybridizing: 

 with good promise. 



Series III. iEstivales. Planchon. 



6a. VITIS LINCECUMII, Buckley, Pat. Off. Rep. 186L* 



6b. VITIS LINCECUMII, variety glauca Munson. Proc. Acad. Phila. 1861, p. 451, and 

 1870, p. 136. (See Plate XL) 



Synonyms : 



V. labrusca, Gray, Proc. Acad. Phila., 1862, p. 162. 



V. labrusca, var. mstivalis, Regel. Conspect. Vitis, p. 396. 

 "Post Oak," "Turkey Grape," "Big Summer Grape," "Sand Grape." 



There are two forms of this species which I shall designate as a the species, and b, a variety 

 of it, var. glauca Munson. 



* In July, 1889, while acting as Special Agent of the Department of Agriculture, investigating the native 

 grapes and other wild fruits, for the Division of Pomology, I stopped at the home of Dr. W. B. Morrow, of 

 Navasota, Texas, who was well acquainted with Dr. Gideon Lincecum for whom Dr. Buckley named this species. 

 Dr. Morrow stated that the name was correctly spelled Lincecum, not Linsecom, as some botanists have spelled it. 

 Buckley in the Pat. Off. Rep. .1861, has it Linsecomii, which probably came through the error of the type-setter.. 



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