Vitis bicolor (cont.) 
venation moderately prominent from the commonly 7 not cuite opposite pairs of 
ribs, along which latter more or less light pubescence is found, becoming tufts 
in the forks, sometimes smooth; upper face smooth, of a lively dark green; lower 
face smooth, of a characteristic bluish-white appearance, caused by. a _prunose_ 
bloom or ¢ or glaucous st substa ance. Leaves from ground shoots of old wood usually 
beautifully 5 to 7 lobed. 
Cluster: Fertile,-— egn to 54"or longer, generally slender, cylindrical, 
compact,with little or no shoulder; peduncle 14" to 23" in length; rachis Sdooth, 
covered thinly with a pale bluish~green; pedieetes in long, enlarging upward, a. 
or knotty; staminate cluster much lerger and diffuse. 
Flowers; Very similar to those of V. aestivalis. 
Berries: Generally +" to 1/3" in diameter, spherical, black, with heavy 
prunose bloom, making the PMiit look bluish when ripe; persistent; pulp juicy and 
vinous sometimes, and a little astringent when fully ripe, even in best varieties 
but exceedingly pulpy, dry and astringent in general. 
Seeds: Small to medium, 1/6" to 1/5" long, by 1/8" to 1/6" broad, color 
from light to dark chocolate or slightly-burned coffee; beak short, fairly defined 
raphe prominent in the groove, about filling it and continuing eet) defined ett 
to the beak; chalaza rather below the middle of the back, prominent, or often 
sunken as in V. vulpina, age circular, surrounded by a distinct groove which 
extends over the broad top of seeds; depressions broad, short, curved, ahallow, 
of a lighter shade than body AP heed, often salmon or chocolate color. 
Plantlet: Cotyledons small, ovate, with short taper or acite point, green. 
It is found in Michigan to 45 degrees North latitude, also in Ontario, Wis- 
consin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Northern Kentucky, Western New York, and Penn- 
sylvania; in New Jersey, Maryland and Northern Virginia, where it we more or less 
rusty tomentum on young leeves and wood, rarely in New York and New Jersey. The 
true, .” aestiva lis of Michaux takes its place southward, from above named regions 
especially in Georgia and Tennessee. The transition be V.aestivalis is gradual 
going South. It is found mostly in rolling, dry sandy, or alluvial clay soils 
mixed with sand, and especially loves sunny slopes. 
--~ Foundations of American Grape Culture, by T. V. Munson 1909. 
