
VITIS BATLEYANA 
V. Bailesyana Possum Grape. Slender high climber, densely foliaged: leaves 
broad-ovate and cordate, mostly S—lobed near apex, dull, at matarity pubescent 
on veins underneath: fruit * inch or less in diameter, shintne black. ‘West 
Virginia to Georgia. 
~~Hortus Second, 1941 

¥. Baileyana Munson. Leaf blades thinnish but firm, ovate or orbicular-ovate 
5-7 em long, glabrous and somewhat rugose above in age or pubescent on the nerves 
beneath, toothed, otherwise entire or angularly 3-lobed near the apex, cordate at 
the base: panicles 6 - 13 om long, compact: berry globose, 7-10 mm in diameter, 
black, ,destitute of bloom or nearly so. Woods and mountainous slopes, Blue Ridge 
and Applachein Platean, Georgia to Alabama and West Virginia. 
Manual of the Southeastern Flora by J. K. Small 193%. 
Vitis Baileyana, Munson. 
Synonyms: 
V. Virginians, Munson, Bull. No. 3 Dep. Agr. 1890 Garden and Forest 
Oct. 1, 1890, p99474-5 
* *tPossum Grape®. 
Plant: Slender, rather feeble, though hardy, climbing moderately, much 
branched; tips of young growing shoots green, or pale pink, with very little pale, 
cottony pubescence, considerably extended beyond fully grown leaven; very leafy, 
owing to the starting of short lateral branches at almost every node, of a lively 
clear green, of a tint between V. cordifolia and ¥. eestivalis, the young wood 
being of the same shade of green as the under side of the leaves, which is only 
a shade paler than the petted surface, and in the growing plant the lower surfase 


Reots: Thickening downward from collar in one year seedlings and sparingly 
branched, fleshy, transversely wrinkled, resistant to Phylloxera, moderately pen- 
etrating, but not snfficiently to endure the Texes climate well. 
Wood: Young angled, becoming nearly cylindrical at maturity, or obscurely 
angled; finely, but irregularly striated, and smooth, the thin cottony pubescenes 
disappearing before close of first season's growths; color when mature pale hazel 
or light brown; rathe#/softer than in other species of this series; nodes moder~ 
ately enlarged; diaphragm 1/8" thick, thicker on side next to bud than opposite to 
its bud eub-conical, seute, same color as mature annual wood, in unfolding pale 
brown at first, first appearance of leaves pinkish green, tip closed; tendrils 
intermittent, mostly bifid, weak, persistent, green when young, with few cottony 
hairs; internodes’ short, 1" to 4", seldom mores pith large, enlarged much at 
lower end of internodes; — Seotes: 
