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4, V. Arizonica, Englmn. Arizona Grape.—Similar to V. Cali- 
fornica, but tomentose only when young, later glabrous, with mid- 
dle-sized berries, reported to be of luscious taste. ; 
5. V. Californica. Bentham. California Grape.—The only wild 
grape of California, has rounded, downy leaves, and small berries, and 
is not made use of as far as known. ‘he seeds are obtuse, with a 
short beak, elongated chalaza, and very slender raphe. 
6. V. estivalis, Mchx. Summer Grape.—Climbing over bushes 
and small trees, by the aid of forked, intermittent tendrils; leaves 
large (4-5 or six inches wide), of firm texture, entire or often more 
or less deeply and obtusely 3-5 lobed, with rounded sinus, and with 
short and broad tee.h; when young, always very woolly or cottony, 
mostly bright red or rusty; at last smoothish, but dull, and never 
shining like V. riparia ; berries usually larger than in this species, 
coated with a distinct bloom, and, when well grown, in compact 
bunches ; seeds, usually 2 or 3, rounded on top, with a very prom- 
inent raphe. Throughout the Middle and Southern States. Var. 
Lincecumii, Post Oak Grape of the sandy soils of Louisiana and 
Texas, more bushy than climbing, with deeply lobed, rusty, downy 
leaves and sweet fruit. Var. monticola, Mountain Grape of Texas, 
with small entire leaves (the down of which at last is gathered in 
little tufts) and large acidulous berries. Var. cinerea, with ashy 
_ white, downy, scarcely-lobed leaves, with fruit like the last variety. 
It is not always easy to distinguish such varieties from the other 
species, unless the essential characters above enumerated be closely 
attended to, and the numberless gradual transitions from one form 
to the other be watched. Cultivated. 
7. V.candicans, Englmn. Mustang Grape, of Texas.—A tall 
climber, with rather large, rounded, almost toothless leaves, white 
cottony on the under side, bearing large berries, which, like those ot 
the wild Zabrusca, show different colors, greenish, claret, and blu- 
ish-black; and which, in its native country, are made into wine. In 
os shoots and sprouts the leaves are usually deeply and elegant- 
y many-lobed. 
6. Berries large, 7-9 or even 10 lines in diameter; raphe scarcely 
visible on the moe or less deeply-notched top of the seed; tendrils continuous. 
8. V. Labrusca, L. Northern Fox Grape.—Plant usually not 
large, stems with loose, shreddy bark, climbing over bushes or small 
trees, though occasionally reaching the tops of the highest trees. 
Tendrils continuous, branched. Leaves (4-6 inches wide) large and 
thick, entire, or sometimes deeply lobed, very slightly dentate, coat- 
ed, when young, with a thick, rusty, or sometimes whitish, wool or 
down, which, in the wild plants, remains on the lower side, but al- 
most always disappears in the mature leaf of some cultivated vari-— 
eties; berries large, in middle-sized, or, in some cultivated varieties, 
rather large bunches, bearing two or three, or sometimes four seeds, 
New England to South Carolina, where it prefers wet thickets; it 
extends into the Alleghany Mountains, and here and there even 
down their western declivities, but it is a stranger to the Mississippi 
