
Vitis Baileyana (cont.) 
Leaves: Stipules minute, pale rusty; petiole mostly greater in length than 
half the width of blade, and 2/8 the length of midrib, cylindrical with a distinct 
narrow groove on upper side, green or pale red, with thin cottony pubesence; of 
nearly same diameter throughout; blade 23" to 4" wide by 24" to 4" from insertion 
of petiole to apex, cordate in general outline, rarely lobed more than to the 
extent of two unequal shoulders similarly with ¥. cinerea, basal sinus narrowly 
inverted V-shaped, with sides little curved; apex short taper-pointed; teeth ir- 
regular, small, short convex, obtuse with distinet mucron; ribs in 7 to 9 nearly 
opposite pairs, each terminating in the mucron of one of the larger teeth, scarcely 
at all pubescent, paler green that surface between; both feces generally devoid 
of pubescent hairs, above moderately wrinkled, not shining and not attacked by the 
Leaf-folder ; persisting to late in the fall. 


Cluster: 24 to 5% long, very compound and compact, having a false tendril 
at insertion of peduncle, with rachis; peduncle 4" to 1" - very slender - more 
slender than rachis; rachis thickened, dull green, divisions slender; pedicels 
1/8" to 1/6" long, very slender having few small warts, receptacle enlarged when 
fruit is ripe. 
Flowers: Minute, with all parts very delicate, more so than in any other 
species; stamens and petals moetly 5, pistil very slender, stigma scarcely visible 
to naked eye; in fertile flowers stamens reflexed; berries 1/6" to 5/16" in diameter, 
spherical, shining black with little or no bloom, persistent; skin thin, tough 
with bright red juices; contents juicy, without pulp, but a greenish matter attached 
closely to seeds, ss in V. cordifolia; possessing a similar flavor with V. cinerea, 
pure sprightly, vinous; very acid until fully ripe, then sugary; ripe about with 
V. cordifolia, or earlier. 
Seeds: 1 to 3, mostly 2, 1/8" to 1/6" long by 1/8" broad, similar in color 
to those of V. cinerea, but darker; beak very short, small, distinct, about the 
game color as body of seeds raphe visible from base of beak as a fine hair to 
notched top of seed where it disappears in a distinct groove, which enlarges moder- 
ately in back of seed, containing only a trace of chalaga, a faint groove extends 
from basin to beaks; ventral depressions broad, distinct, diverging from beak, paler 
color than body of seed. The seeds from every locality of collection so far have 
chalaza depressed. 
Plantlet: Ssed Leaves very small, narrowly ovate, acute green. Cermination 
very late, foliation, flowering end ripening about with V. cordifolia. ; 
In 1883-4 I received portions of vines with clusters of this peculiar little 
grape, among specimens of several other species, from Mr, James G. Werts, of Salem, 
Roanoke Co., Virginia. seeesesesees In Oetober, 1889, I found a number of vines 
of this soecies along the borders of the Kanawha River in the vicinity of Kanawha 
Falls, West Virginia, and the same year reveived wood from Mr. J. K. Hoyt, of 
Buncombe Co., North Carolina, as the "Wild 'Possum Grape” which was grafted and 
grew, proving to be the same species. In September, 1890, Mr Hoyt sent me ripe . 
fruit from other vines of the * *Possum Grape* found wild in his vicinity, all 
being of this species. All plents of the species so far known to me grow along 
mountain streams at an altitude of 1500 to Zo0o feat. 
-—- Foundations of American Grape Culture by T. V. Munson 1909 
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