■with lobed leaves, found by G. H. Norton near Lake Eustis, bears fruit nearly as large as the 

 Concord, clusters of medium size, quality fair. Birds in Florida are very fond of the fruit of this 

 species, scarcely allowing it to ripen.* 



This species, in characteristics, stands between V. candicans and V. Simpsoni, with smaller, 

 more leathery, more generally not lobed leaves than either, but more nearly allied to V. candicans 

 than V . Simpsoni. 



This species has been found often naturally hybridized with V. cordifolia, var. sempervirens , 

 V. Simpsoni, and \'. cinerea, var. Floridana, in Manatee County and other parts of Southern 

 Plorida. One of these hybrids with V. Simpsoni found by Mr. J. H. Simpson and sent to me is 

 very vigorous, bears well, of a medium sized, good very late fruit, ripe here at Denison, Texas, 

 in September. 



Found naturally in rich woods of south half, of Florida where nearly all the lands are more 

 or less sandy. 



3. VITIS CANDICANS. Engelmann, Gray's PI. Lindh., 2: 166, 1845. PI. Wright, 1, p. 32, 

 £de Wafp. 



Ann. Bot. Syst. VII., p. 616. Am. Nat., Aug. 1868. 



Synonym : 



V. Mustangensis, Buckley, Pat. Off. Rep. 1861, p. 482; Proc. Acad. Sci. Phil. 1861, p. 451. 



"Mustang Grape," in Texas. 



Plant: Vigorous, rampant, scarcely tapering, climbing the highest trees; making very long 

 annual growth, sometimes 30 or 40 feet. 



Roots : Very firm and most deeply penetrating of any species. 



Wood: When young more or less angled, densely covered with whitish or yellowish dense 

 to cobwebby wool, becoming floccose late in th,e season, persistent till second year. Bark on 

 mature annual wood dull grayish-brown, f oughish with scattering wart-like blisters, finely striated ; 

 ■on old wood persistent, finely checked, fibrous; wood rather soft under the shears. Sectional 

 view of annual wood cylindrical or oval; rays wide apart, pores between very large and open; 

 nodes moderately enlarged, little bent; diaphragm 1/16' to 1/8' or more thick, nearly plane; 

 bud small, globose or obscurely three-angled, conical, brown when opening, medium pinkish 

 with white woolly covering. Tendrils when well developed nearly always twice forked, very 

 large, strong, clinging well, woolly when young, smooth, pale brown and finely striated when 

 mature; intemodes medium to long, 2' to 6', sometimes 8' or 10'; pith medium, dark brown, 

 slightly enlarged at lower end. 



Leaves : Stipules of medium length, broad, blunt, crimson or pink, tomentose; petiole 2' to 3' 

 Jong with indistinct groove, densely woolly; blade of medium size, varying in length of midrib 

 from 23^'to5'or more, and in width from 2]4,' to 6' or more, average length 33^', average width 4', 

 making a long cordate leaf if it were not so open, or nearly truncate at base, which frequently 

 makes it rounded — deltoid in outline and apparently broad for its length; basal sinus broadly 

 A shaped or truncate, an acute notch at insertion of petiole, even when the base is truncate; entire 

 ■or 3 to 5 lobed, border sinuses broad, rounded; summit and lobes right angled or acute; teeth 

 short, usually slightly convex, sometimes scalloped from point, with mucronate point, notches 

 between shallow, scalloped. One of the most striking characteristics of this species is the inverted 

 saucer-like shape of blade, being convex toward upper face and attached to petiole at obtuse angle 

 so that the dense foliage of the vine growing over the top of a bush or tree appears somewhat 

 like a canopy shingled with concavo-convex leaves. Venation from the generally 7 opposite or 

 nearly opposite pairs of ribs — each of which terminates a tooth direct, as in V. coriacea, — ^promi- 

 nent, but obscured by the dense woolly felt on under side, which in young leaves is nearly snow 

 -white, becoming dull ashy, never rusty with age, persistent; above, the young leaf is covered 



* J. H. Simpson. 



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