NATIVE WOODY PLANTS OF THE UNITED STATES 289 
Vitls munsoniana Simpson. Little muscadine grape. 
Muscadinia munsoniana Small. 
Range: 30, 31. 
Site: Dry, well-drained, sun, shade. 
Fruit : Berry, available August-November. 
A slender, trailing vine ; blooms nearly continuously ; usually not high-climbing. 
Vitis muscadina, see Vitis rotundifolia. 
Vitis nova-mexicana, see Vitis longii. 
Vitis novae-ang'liae Fern. Pilgrim grape. 
Range : 26, 27. 
Site: Well-drained, sun. 
Fruit : Berry, available in September. 
A vigorous, climbing vine ; often forms thickets of great profusion. 
Vitis palmata Vahl. Cat grape. 
V. rubra Michx. 
Range : 22, 25, 29. 
Site : Vv'ell-drained, sun. 
Fruit: Berry, available September-October, persistent. 
A slender, high-climbing vine ; flowers May-June ; roots fibrous at the surface, 
hard and penetrating ; resistant to drought and cold when established ; resistant 
to Phylloxera; free from disease; seed germination very slow. 
Vitis riparia, see Vitis viilpina. 
Vitis rotundifolia Michx. Muscadine grape. 
V. muscadina Raf., Muscadinia rotundifolia (Michx.) Small. 
Range : 20', 22, 25, 28, 29, 30. 
Site: Well-drained, moist, sun, shade. 
Fruit : Berry, available August-September. 
A very vigorous, high-climbing vine; flowers in May; occurs in sandy and 
other soils; roots thick, little-branched; berries drop singly as soon as ripe; 
free from diseases; cuttings root with difficulty, but layers of wood twisted 
withelike at one point when covered root easily ; the original of the Scupper- 
nong grape. 
Stomach records: Cardinal, bobwhite; opossum. Observations: Cardinal. 
Vitis rubra, see Vitis palmata. 
Vitis rufotomentosa Small. Redshank grape. 
Range: 29, 30. 
Site: Well-drained, sun. 
Fruit: Berry, available August-September. 
A strong, high-climbing vine. 
Vitis rupestris Scheele. Sand grape. 
Range : 11, 16, 17, 20, 25, 27, 28, 29. 
Site: Well-drained, sun. 
Fruit : Berry, available July-August. 
A vigorous, much-branched vine, or more commonly a low, bushy shrub; 
occasionally prostrate and trailing; succeeds in poor, calcareous and sandy 
soils ; roots slender, long ; almost entirely resistant to Phylloxera; more or less 
resistant to drought ; resistant to cold ; not resistant to anthracnose ; resistant 
to other diseases and insects; easily propagated by cuttings; 80 percent of 
cuttings root; pistillate plants rarely produce fruit alone; seed germination 
rapid. 
Observations: Deer. Browsed by cattle and sheep. 
Vitis simpsonii Munson. Currant grape. 
V. cincerea fi07^idana Munson, V. austrina Small. 
Range : 29, 30 . 
Site: Well-drained, sun. 
Fruit : Berry, available in August. 
A strong, high-climbing vine. 
Vitis slavinii, see Vitis vulpina. 
