VITIS VINIFERA, 
Fruir. <A berry, globose, pulpy. 
Seeps. Bony. 
Tar Seconpary CHARACTERS. 
Vitis. Petals deciduous, cohering at the top, or distinct 
and spreading. Ovary partly inclosed within the torus, two- 
celled. Cells two-ovuled. Stigma sessile, capitate. Berry 
one-celled, one — four-seeded. 
Calyx five-toothed, minute. Petals cohering at the tip, hood-like, withering. 
Styles: wanting. Stigma obtuse, capitate. Berry five-seeded, globular, often dic- 
cious. Seeds subcordate. 
Tue Spreciric CHARACTERS. 
Vitis vintrera. Leaves cordate, sinuately five-lobed, gla- 
brous or tomentose. Flowers all perfect. 
Leaves sinuate-lobed, naked or downy. 
Tue. Arriricra, CHARACTERS. 
Crass Penranpria. Stamens five. Orper Monoeynia. 
Polypetalous.. Flowers inferior, regular. Stamens opposite 
to the petals. Shrubs. Stem climbing. Calyx sub-entire. 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
The Vine is a native of Armenia, Georgia, and the Levant; 
but it is now found in all the temperate regions of the earth, 
and is cultivated with care wherever its fruit can be brought 
to perfection. In France, the northern limit of the vine is 
stated to be 50° 20’. In Thuringia, Saxony, and Siberia, it 
is 51°, but towards the east it is lower, for though Hungary 
has much wine, yet Galicia has none, and in the southern 
= parts of the Russian empire it ascends no higher than 48°. 
_ In America the vine is cultivated in the Southern States only, 
= : extending no farther north than 38°. The limit southward in 
the northern hemisphere is properly 15°, but in the high moun- 
ee tainous island of St. Thomas, on the coast of Guinea, in 
, and in the Deccan, it is found almost under the 
_ equator. In the southern’ hemisphere, its southern limits are 
: 37°, - The ieee altitude, in ace seg is seeee feet; ee 
