VITACE.E 



slightly toothed or entire or deeply lobed and rusty-woolly 

 beneath. The flowers are insignificant, but not so the 

 usually large and always luscious fruit. From it the Nan- 

 tucket people make excellent jam and jelly. "The fruit 

 may be of the largest size and deep purple or amber pur- 

 ple in colour or much smaller, more numerous and crowded 

 in the cluster, and greenish or greenish-purple when fully 

 ripe." 



"A very old vine near Abram's Point measured twenty- 

 one inches around close to the base, and seventeen inches 

 a foot above." 



One other member of the Vine Family has been reported. 



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