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Descriptive Flora 



CondaUa obovata Hook. 



Bluewood. 



Brasil. 



Thorny evergreen shrub or small tree, with stiff spreading 

 branches and conspicuously light green foliage. Youngest 

 branches end in thorns. Leaves simple, alternate or clustered, 

 small, obovate, entire. Flowers inconspicuous, minute, greenish, 

 star-shaped. Fruit small, black, edible, the size of small peas 

 and containing a small stone. May to fall. In poor, dry soil. 

 The fruits make fine jelly but are seldom used as they are so 

 small and difficult to gather. 



A vigorous vine with shreddy bark, climbing by tendrils. 

 Leaves simple, alternate. Blades large, ovate to rounded-ovate 

 in outline, 2 to 4 inches broad, shallowly toothed and angularly 

 lobed, shiny green or with few spidery hairs above and densely 

 white woolly underneath. Petioles about y 2 as long as the blades. 

 Flowers very fragrant, minute, greenish, in branched drooping 

 clusters 1 to 3" long. The 4 or 5 small green petals cohere at the 

 top and fall off together without expanding. Fruit juicy, acid, 

 pleasant-tasting berries (grapes) twice the size of large peas. 

 Gathered for pies and jellies when green or when ripe. Fruit 

 ripens in June and July. In low grounds. These plants climb 

 fully a hundred feet where water is abundant. 



Vitis berlandieri Planch. Winter Grape. Summer Grape. 



A vine climbing by tendrils similar to Vitis candtQans but 

 the leaves lack the dense white woolly covering underneath. 

 Blossoms in April and May, the grapes ripening in August and 

 September. In low grounds and limestone hills in which 

 locations it does not climb extensively. 



Vitis rupestris Scheele. Sand Grape. Sugar Grape. 



A bushy plant, 2 to 7 feet high, (sometimes slightly climb- 

 ing), with forked tendrils, coarsely toothed leaves, and clusters 



VITACEAE. Grape Family. 



Vitis oandioans Engelm. 



Mustang Grape. 



