It is often found hybridized with V. candicans, V. Berlandieri, V. rupestris. V. Arizonica 

 (in Uvalde County), and with all these except V. Arizonica, in Gillespie, Kerr, Llano, Coryell, 

 Lampasas, etc. , counties, Texas. Such hybrids in the grounds of the writer grow very vigorously, 

 having large, strong vines, and doubtless would be excellent stocks upon which to graft. Some 

 of them bear a fairly good fruit for wine making. 



It grows abundantly on top of the cretaceous limestone hills of Central Southwest Texas, in 

 Coryell, Lampasas, Bell, Llano, Travis, Gillespie, Uvalde, and to greater or less extent in adjoin- 

 ing counties; but so far it has not been found in low situations along streams or in sandy soils, 

 but chiefly on the upper parts of hills from 200 to 500 feet high, which are of a cretaceous strata 

 left in buttes and ridges by the erosion of valleys between. In Uvalde County it takes on a form 

 approaching the form of V. Treleasei, yet it is one of the most clearly marked and distinct of 

 species. 



Since the discovery of this species and its naming by Buckley, it was collected independently 

 by Mr. Foex and sent to France and there named V. Faexana, by Prof. J. E. Planchon (Am- 

 pelideae, Plan.). It was a little prior to this supposed by the writer to be new, and was named 

 by him V. Texana, in a paper presented before the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural 

 Science, in New York City, August 18, 1887. This conclusion and the former opinion of A. Millar- 

 det that V. Berlandieri was Buckley's V. Monticola, resulted from the indefiniteness of Buckley's 

 published description of his species. The clearing up of the confusion concerning .this and 

 V. Berlandieri we owe to Prof. P. Viala, while in this country in 1887 (see Une Mission Viticole, 

 pp. 62-67). In the young seedlings, tips of young shoots, roots, stipules, and seeds, it resembles 

 V. Berlandieri, but there the resemblance ceases ; in some respects it resembles V. rupestris, as in 

 the somewhat erect growth of the young seedlings, the cupping of the leaf toward the upper face, 

 and small compact clusters. Prof. A. Millardet noted this resemblance in a few specimen leaves 

 sent to him. Prof. P. Viala also recognizes its resemblance to V. rupestris, with too much stress, 

 I think (Une Mission Viticole, pp. 67-68). But its slow foliation, blooming, and germination, 

 its small stipules, poor growth of cuttings, its slender climbing habit, naked tips of growing 

 shoots, separate it from all Precoces. It has in vine, young tips, and basal sinus of leaf, a striking 

 likeness to V. a-ubra. In general aspect in foliage,' the small forked cluster and the wartiness on 

 peduncle, rachis and berry, also slight wrinkles about chalaza, it appears to have a slight leaning 

 toward the Muscadine section. It truly is a remarkable and distinct species. It is well worthy 

 of cultivation as an ornamental vine. 



Series VII. Occidentales 



18. VITIS CALIFORNICA, Bentham, Bot. Sulp. 10. (See Plate XXVIII.) 



S3monym : 



Vitis Caribcea, Hook and Am. Bot., Beechey, 327. 



"North California Grape." 



Plant: Climbing moderately, or vigorously, as seen by the writer -in Santa Rosa and Napa 

 Valleys at Chico and at Redding in Sacramento Valley, also at Grant's Pass, Rogue River, Oregon; 

 branches tapering ; growing tips little enveloped in expanding leaves ; often the vines are seen 

 completely enveloping small trees with a dense canopy of leaves. 



Roots: Fibrous, rather soft, transversely wrinkled. 



Wood: When young reddish or pale green, angled and somewhat covered with long whitish 

 hairs, becoming floccose and remaining into the winter, or in Eldorado County specimens, covered 

 with short brown pubescence, similar to V. cinerea; when mature, brownish or grayish, finely 

 striated, soft, sectional view circular or often oval, rays distinct, pores open; nodes large and a 

 little bent ; diaphragm nearly plane, medium thin ; bark the second year easily loosening in fibrous 

 plates, on old wood finely striately checked and persistent as in V. cinerea; buds small, sub- 



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