VITIS BERLANDIBRI 

V. berlandieri Spanish Grape. Stocky, moderately climbing: leaves cordate, 
often as broed as long, angled or S-lobed toward apex, shining above and at maturity 
pubescent on veins underneath: fruit 1/3 inch or less in diameter, purple. South- 
west Texas and Mexico. 
—-- Hortus Second, 1941 

Vitis berlandieri, Planchon. Frowspecimens collected by Berlandier in Western 
Texas about 1883. 
Synonyms: | : 
Y. aestivalis monticola, var. Engelm. in Am. Nat., 2, pe321 
V. asestivalis, var. Gray, Pl. Wright, 1, p. 82 
VY. monticola,.Emgelm. Bushbery Cat. p.15, 18853 
V. monticola, Millardet, Especes de Vignes, pp 199~204, 1885 
"Little Mountain Grape", "Fall Grape", "Winter Grape", "Spanish Grape". 
Plant: Rather stocky, with much the same habit as V. cinerea though more 
tapering and branched, climbing somewhat less, yet along streams going to tops of 
large trees, foliage of a bright, derk livel. een color, and shining in light, 
its chief distinction from V. cineres. 
Roots: Little branching, wrinkled transversely, hard, deeply penetrating. 
Wood: When young distinctly angled as in V. cinerea, covered with dull 
ashy pubescence and thin cottony hairs, the pubescence remaining through the first 
year, giving the dull brown, finely striated bark beneath an ashy appearance; wood 
rather soft; sectional view of annual wood porous, rays distinct, almost identical 
in structure and hardness with V. cinerea; nodes slightly bulged, much bent; dia- 
phragm 1/12" to 1/10" in thickness, nearly plane; buds usually small and conical, 
sub-triangled, sometimes globose and cottony - like tip, unfolding, pinkish-crimzon 
or salmon, tip closed; tendrils generally once, often twice forked, long, at first 
cottény and pubescent, then smooth, striated, red or green, persistent; inter modes 
usually short, 2" to 4" ‘long, often mors, sometimes 6" or 7"; pith small, enlarged 
at lower end, light brown or nearly white. 
Leaves: Stipules very smalls petiole in length about # the width of blade, 
distinctly striated, groove very narrow end shallow, almost wanting, covered with 
a thin ashy cotton or closelyset with a short velvety pubeseence, or both, reddish 
or green, set at right or obtuse angle withleaf. Blade mostly 2" to 4" wide, 
sometimes 5" or 6", the length of the blade from insertion of petiole to summit, 
less by about 1/5 than its widths circular, slightly cupped toward upper face tith 
margin bent back a little,~ less so than ¥. srizonicas basal sinus usually 
inverted U-shaped, but also often inverted V-shaped, or acute at insertion of petiole 
shoulders usually not very prominent, apex short, acutely tapering; tecth short, 
small, convex with minute mucronjvenation from the usually 6, sometimes 7 pairs 
of opposéte, rather prominent ribs, covered with short, velvety pubescence; 
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