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VITIS VINIFERA. COMMON VINE. 
SYNONTMA. Vitis. Pbatm.Lond. Vitis vinifera. Baub. 
Pin. p. 299. J. Baub. Hlft. III. p. 67. Gerard. Emac. p. 875. 
Park. Tbeat. p. 1555. Rail Hlft. 161 3. Knlpb. Bot. orig. cent. 6 
Duhamel. Art. II. p. 360. /. 106. Schmldel. Ic. plant, t. vlL 
£. Vitis corinthiaca s. apyrena. Baub. Hlft. li. p. 72. 
Glafs Pentandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 284 
Eif. Gen. Ch. Petala apice cohazrentia, emarcida. Bacca 5-fperma 
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6^. C>&. V. foliis lobatis finuatis nudis. 
THE Vine fends ofF numerous long {lender climbing branches, 
and is covered with rough dark brown bark : the leaves are roundifh,. 
deeply ferrated, commonly divided into three lobes, and Hand alter- 
nately upon long footftalks : the flowers are fmall, and produced in 
fpikes : the calyx is divided into five fmall narrow fegments : the 
petals are five, fmall, oblong, whitifh, withered, adherent at their 
apices, and foon fall on : the five filaments are tapering, and fur- 
nifhed with fimple antherse : the germen is egg-fhaped, without any 
■ftyle, but fupplied with a cylindrical ftigma : the fruit is a large round 
berry, of one ceil, and contains five hard feeds, of an irregular form. 
The flowers appear in June and July. 
The Vine is a native of moil of the temperate parts of the four 
quarters of the world, and is fuccefsfully cultivated in our hemifphere 
between the thirtieth and fifty-firft degree of latitude. Through the 
efFetls of culture, and a difference of foil and climate, numerous 
varieties of grapes are produced, differing widely in lhape, colour, 
and tafle, and affording wines, which are known to be extremely- 
various. Vine leaves, called parnplw, and the tendrils or capreoll y 
have an aftringent tafle, and were formerly ufed in diarrhoeas, 
hemorrhages, and other diforders, requiring refrigerant and flyptic 
medicines. The juice, or fap, of the Vine, named lacbryma^ has 
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