Vitis californica (cont.) 

Cluster: fFertile,- small 5° to 4" or more long; shouldered heavily, 
similar to many ¥. vulpinas compact; peduncle very shorts rachis usually simple 
or little compounded, thinly cogtony; clear reddish-violet; pedicels +" or less 
nels ratheAsthick, enlarging rapidly toward the receptacle, warty. 
Flowers: As I have never been able to grow the apecte s here to bearing 
age, owing to sensitiveness to cold and mildew, I have not been able to study the 
flower sufficiently to give an exact description more than that they are mach 
as in ¥. arizonica and in V. cinerea, very small and delicate. 
Berries: 1/3" to 4" in diameter, round or little oblate, black, wi 
heavy prunose blooms persistent; skin rather thick, pulo seedy with lit juice, 
very sugary and pleasantly flavored. 
Seeds: 2 to 4, mostly 5, large 1/5" to $* long by 1/6" to 1/5" broad, 
obovate, of a =a a barat coffes enka mgs. not ra in beak Large, short 
and bluntg raphe ia Sr : d_¢ : s2ad a 
wate t Bn aie of snake chalaza lo: Lopate, Speer con Peenentin saliont 
¥ surface of seed, flet or convex, surrounded by 2 shallow greove; ventral 
pes Fos short, shallow, about Persiiel with raphe, rather wide apart. 




Plantiet: Seed-leaves mediua to large, ovate or cordate, pale green with 
short petioles. 

Natively it is found along streams, also on hillsides, slong dry ravines, ete., 
in Middle end Norther Californie, especially in the Sacramento Valley and in the 
Rogue River Valley in Southwestern Oregon. 
~--- Foundations of American Grape Culture, by T. ¥. Munson, 1902. 
