Vitis bicolor (cont.) 

venation moderately prominent from the commonly 7 not auite opposite psirs of 
ribs, along which latter more or less light pubescence is found, becoming tufts 
in the forks, sometimes smooths upper face smooth, of a lively dark green; lower 
face smooth, of a characteristic bluish-white appearance, caused a prunose 
bloom or glaucous Substance. Leaves from ground shoots of old wood usually 
beautifully 5 to 7 lobed. 
Cluster: fFertile,~ 23" to 5é"or longer, generally slender, cylindrical, 
compact, with little or no shoulders peduncle 13" to 23" in length; rachis smooth, 
covered thinly with a pale bluish-green; pedicels }" long, enlarging upward, warty, 
or knotty; eteminate cluster much larger and diffuse. ; 
Flowers: Very similar to those of V. sestivelis. 

Berries: Generally +" to 1/5" in diameter, spherical, black, with heavy 
pruncse bloom, making the fruit 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 well defined nearly 
to the beaks chalagza rathet below the middle of the back, prominent, or often 
sunken as in V. vulpina, nearly 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 of seed, often salmon or chocolate color. 
Plantlet: Cotyledons small, ovate, with short taper or acute point, green. 
It is found in Michigen 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 has more or less 
rusty tomentum on young leaves and wood, rarely in New York and New Jersey. The 
true V. sestivalis of Michaux takes its place southward, from above named regions, 
especially in Georgia and Tennessee. The transition to 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. ¥. Munson 1909. 

