. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. I. Vitis Labrusca L. Northern Fox- or Plum-grape. Wild Vine. Fig. 2830. Vitis Labrusca L. Sp. PL 203. 1753. Climbing or trailing, often ascending high trees, sometimes forming a stem a foot in diameter or more, the young twigs, forlced teijdrils, petioles and lower surfaces of the leaves densely rusty-pubescent, especially when young. Bark loose and separating
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. I. Vitis Labrusca L. Northern Fox- or Plum-grape. Wild Vine. Fig. 2830. Vitis Labrusca L. Sp. PL 203. 1753. Climbing or trailing, often ascending high trees, sometimes forming a stem a foot in diameter or more, the young twigs, forlced teijdrils, petioles and lower surfaces of the leaves densely rusty-pubescent, especially when young. Bark loose and separating in strips; nodes solid, interrupting the pith; leaves large, each opposite a forked tendril or a flower cluster, varying from merely dentate to deeply lobed with rounded sinuses; fertile flowers in compact panicles, the sterile looser; berries few, brownish-purple or yellowish, about 9" in diameter, strongly musky; seeds 3-6, about 4" long; raphe narrow. Thickets, Vermont to Indiana, New York, Geor- gia and Tennessee. Recorded from Minnesota. The cultivated isabella. concord and catawba grapes have been derived from this species. Ascends to 2100 ft. in Virginia. May-June. Fruit ripe 2. vitis aestivalis Michx. Summer Grape. Small Grape. Fig. 2831. Vitis aestivalis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 230. 1803. High climbing, branches terete, the twigs and petioles pubescent; bark loose and shreddy; pith interrupted at the nodes. Leaves as large as those of V. Labrusca, dentate, or 3-S-Iobed, floccose-woolly with whitish or rusty pubescence, especially when young, sometimes becoming nearly glabrous when mature; tendrils and flower-clusters inter- mittent (wanting opposite each third leaf) ; inflorescence generally long and loose; ber- ries numerous, about 5" in diameter, black, with a bloom, acid, but edible; seeds 2-3, about 3" long; raphe narrow. In thickets, southern New Hampshire to Flor- ida, west to southern Ontario, Wisconsin, Kansas and Texas. Ascends t
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