Vine climbing, but of only medium vigor (less vigorous than
Cordifolia). Canes slender, with short internodes, and with very
many short side shoots; shoots angular, densely whitish or rusty
pubescent or woolly along the angles; mature canes round, nearly
smooth; diaphragms thick; tendrils intermittent, usually trifid.
Leaves with blade long, cordate, frequently smaller than
Cordifolia, shortly but distinctly three-lobed (lobes mostly
pointed and much spreading), bright green, but not shining, above,
gray below, slightly pubescent at maturity only on veins; apex
short, acuminate, acute or blunt; teeth comparatively small and
notched-like, regular, not prominently acute. Clusters large;
peduncle long; pedicel slender, short, making the bunch very
compact. Berries very small, black with little or no bloom,
intensely acid until very ripe or frosted. Seeds small to very
small, slightly notched on top; chalaza depressed, oblong-oval;
raphe broad, slightly distinct. Leafing, flowering and ripening
fruit very late.
This species seems to have been first described by Munson in 1890 under
the name of _Vitis virginiana_. In 1893 he issued a leaflet changing the
name to _Vitis baileyana_.
It is an upland species growing in the mountain valleys (800 feet and
upward) of southwestern Virginia, West Virginia, western North Carolina,
Tennessee, northern Georgia and the uplands of western central Georgia.
Baileyana can be propagated from cuttings only with difficulty. It is of
no importance horticulturally.
12. =VITIS BERLANDIERI= Planch.
=1.= Planchon, _Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris_, =91=:425. 1880.
(cited by =5=). =2.= _Journ. La Vigne amer._, =1880=:318. (cited by
=5.=) =3.= _Gar. Mon._, =23=:25. 1881. _V. aestivalis_, var.
_monticola_; _V. monticola seedling_; _V. cordifolia coriacea_.
=4.= (?) Engelmann, _Bush. Cat._, =1883=:15. V. MONTICOLA. =5.=
Planchon, _De Candolle's Mon. Phan._, =5=:323, 341. 1887. _V.
monticola._ =6.= _An. Hort._, =1889=:101. =7.= Munson, _U. S. D. A.
Pom. Bul._, =3=:14. 1890. _V. Monticola_, Mil. =8.= Ib., _Gar. and
For._, =3=:474, 475. 1890. =9.= Ib., _Am. Gard._, =12=:659. 1891.
=10.= Ib., _Bush. Cat._, =1894=:20, 22, 29. _V. monticola_, Engelm.
=11.= Bailey, _Gray's Syn. Fl._, =1=:425. 1897. _Mountain grape_;
_Spanish grape_; _Fall grape_; _Winter grape_. =12.= Beach, _N. Y.
Sta. An. Rpt._, =17=:536, 557. 1898. =13.= Munson, _Tex. Sta.
Bul._, =56=:231, 234, 235, 240, 261. 1900. _fig. Little Mountain
grape._ =14.= Viala and Ravaz, _Am. Vines_, =1903=:42, 61.
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