_Vitis longii_ is a vigorous form of the Riparia type with pubescent
young growth, differing from the typical Riparia in having more
circular, less lobed leaves and more incised teeth. Its leaves are
frequently pubescent beneath. Another form with dentate margin of leaf
has been known under the name of Nuevo Mexicana or Novo Mexicana. The
references to these two forms are inextricably confused. Engelmann
refers to this grape which he says he found growing in the botanic
garden of Berlin under the name of _Vitis solonis_. After careful
investigation he decided that this name was a corruption of _Vitis
longii_, or Long's grape, which had been brought from the headwaters of
the Arkansas river by Major Long's expedition into that then unknown
country in the early part of the last century. Many botanists consider
this a hybrid of two or more other species, Riparia, Rupestris,
Candicans and Cordifolia being offered as probable parents.
Its habitat is northern Texas "westward into New Mexico, eastward into
Oklahoma and northward into Kansas and southeastern Colorado."
_Vitis longii_ was first described by Prince in 1830. The fruit is small
and sour and it appears to be of no horticultural promise.
=VITIS LONGII MICROSPERMA= Bailey.
=1.= Munson, _Soc. Prom. Ag. Sci. Rpt._, =1887=:59. V. NOVO
MEXICANA VAR.; _Munson's Riparia_. =2.= Munson, _Rev. Vit._,
=3=:160.--. V. SOLONIS, var. MICROSPERMA (cited by 3). =3.= Bailey,
_Gray's Syn. Fl._, =1=:423. 1897. V. LONGII, var. MICROSPERMA; _V.
Solonis_, var. _microsperma_.
_Vitis longii microsperma_ is a small seeded, vigorous form of _Vitis
longii_ growing on the Red River in north Texas. It is said to be more
resistant to drought than the normal form.
8. =VITIS CHAMPINI= Planch.[140]
=1.= Planchon, _Journ. La Vigne amer._, =6=:22. 1882 (cited by 4).
=2.= Munson, _Am. Hort. Soc. Rpt._, =1885=:137. =3.= Ib., _Am. Pom.
Soc. Rpt._, =1885=:101. =4.= Planchon, _De Candolle's Mon. Phan._,
=5=:323, 327, 328. 1887. _Champin grape._ =5.= Munson, _Gar. and
For._, =3=:474, 475. 1890. =6.= Ib., _U. S. D. A. Pom. Bul._,
=3=:11. 1890. =7.= Ib., _Am. Gard._, =12=:661. 1891. _Champin
grape._ =8.= Ib., _Bush. Cat._, =1894=:20, 22, 25. =9.= Bailey,
_Gray's Syn. Fl._, =1=:423. 1897. =10.= Beach, _N. Y. Sta. An.
Rpt._, =17=:536, 557. 1898. =11.= Munson, _Tex. Sta. Bul._,
=56=:232, 234, 235, 240, 268. 1900. _fig. Adobe Land grape._ =12.=
Viala and Ravaz, _Am. Vines_, =1903=:145.
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