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to eastern Massachusetts do all three species generally occur and it is 
quite possible that here the intermediate plant is of hybrid origin; 
but the specimens cited below from these regions are so exactly like 
those from central Maine, where the plant is the one wild grape of the 
river valleys and where it cannot readily be accounted for as a hybrid 
at least of recent origin, that the writer feels that the intermediate 
plant should be given specific recognition. Even though it may have 
been of hybrid origin in the long-distant past it has now become a 
thoroughly fixed and constant vine through a considerable area and 
demands the same recognition that is given other species of similarly 
intermediate characters but distinct ranges, such for instance as V. 
Treleasei Munson. The vine may be appropriately called 
Vitis novae-angliae, n. sp., ab V. vulpina differt foliis rotundatis 
vel reniformi-ovatis obsolete 3-lobatis (dentibus late deltoideis vix 
prolongatis) subtus pilosis vel arachnoideis subglabratis vel ad nervos 
pilosis vel arachnoideis junioribus tomentosis tomento plus minusve 
rufescento; pampinis thyrsisque 2-8 continuis vel interruptis; baccis 
oblatis maturitate atropurpureis glaucis 1.2-1.7 cm. diametro; semi- 
nibus 6-7 mm. longis. 
Differing from V. vulpina in having the leaves round or reniform- 
ovate, obscurely 3-lobed and with broad scarcely prolonged deltoid 
teeth, pilose, arachnoid or subglabrate beneath or with some pubes- 
cence persistent along the nerves; the young more or less rufescent- 
tomentose: tendrils and inflorescences 2-8, continuous or interrupted: 
berries oblate, in maturity black-purple, glaucous, 1.2-1.7 cm. in 
diameter: seeds 6-7 mm. long.— Alluvial or rich thickets, Maine 
and New Hampshire to Connecticut. Types collected in river- 
thicket by the Penobscot, Orono, Maine, June 27, 1906, in flower, 
M. L. Fernald; August 17, 1908, in well grown fruit, M. L. Fernald; 
and in late September, 1908, mature fruit, Margaret Fernald Pierce 
(all in Gray Herb.). Other specimens examined. MAINE: margin 
of the Penobscot River, Winn, July 10, 1916, Fernald & Long, no. 
14,063; river-thicket by the Penobscot, Orono, July 5, 1890, M. L. 
Fernald, 1891, Kate Furbish; low woods by Hermon Pond, Hermon, 
July 8, 1916, Fernald & Long, no. 14,062; alluvial thicket by Marsh 
Stream, Frankfort, July 21, 1916, Fernald & Long, no. 14,065; along 
the Kennebec, Carrying Place, Somerset County, July 29, 1892, 
M. L. Fernald; alluvial thickets by the Kennebec, Fairfield, July 24, 
1916, Fernald & Long, no. 14,066; by Sebasticook River, Clinton, 
June 27, 1911, R. C. Bean; alluvial woods by the Kennebec, Vassal- 
boro, July 6, 1916, M. L. Fernald, no. 14,061; steep bank by the sea, 
Rockland, August 22, 1909, M. L. Fernald; river-thicket, Sandy River, 
Farmington, September, 1892, and September, 1902, C. H. Knowlton; 
banks of Androscoggin River, Gilead, 1897, Kate Furbish; forming an 
extensive tangle, inner side of gravelly barrier bar, Gerrish Island, 
