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given to all the small black Grapes, as Fox Grape to all 

 the larg;e and tough indifferently. 



26- V. columhina^ Raf. Pidgeon Grape* Branches 

 round, smooth. Petioles round, subequal nearly smooth. 

 Leaves palmate 5 lobed, base subreniform, lobes bilobe, 

 terminal tailobe, lobules unequally ovate angular acute, 

 sinusses rounded notched, teeth remote callose : upper 

 surface smooth, beneath nerves pubescent and rusty. 

 Racemes slender. Large vine, growing from New York 

 to Louisiana, in woods, somewhat similar to K mnltilO" 

 ba in the shape of the leaves, but berries small, blackish, 

 sweetish, eaten by the wild pidgeons like many others. 



Sr* V. poptihfolia^ KaL Poplar Grape. Branches slen- 

 der, ^reen, smooth and striated- Petioles short, half in 

 lengtn, slender striated, pilose above. Leaves o%^ate del- 

 toid, acuminate, base truncate or reniform, end hardly 

 trifid, acutely serrate, smooth on both sides, nerves pi- 

 lose above and beneath, pale beneath- Fruit small and 

 black. Pennsylvania and Alleghany mountains. Leaves 

 4 inches long, 3 broad, petioles 2, Fruit very small, bit- 

 terish, bad tasted. 



28. V. cordtfolia, Mx. P. N- (F, vuJpina, Torrey and 

 Eaton.) Frost Grape. Branches round and smooth. Pe- 

 tioles slender subequal pilose. Leaves cordate acumi- 

 nate, sometimes angular, unequally serrate, smooth on 

 both sides, nerves pdose. Racemes loose muUifiore- Ber- 

 ries small, pale, acid. In woods and near streams from 

 New York to Carolina- Leaves three to four inches 

 broad. This is one of the Fox Grapes of the Northern 

 States, but \ery different from the F. latifolia^ V. la- 

 bruscoides^ and the Southern Muscadine Fox Grapes. 

 It is the Winter or Frost Grape of the Southern States : 

 they are small, acid, of a pale or amber colon 



29. K fiparia tf Pursh, Elliot, Torrey, &c. River 

 Grape. Branches smooth striated- Petioles striated pi- 

 lose subequal. Leaves small reniform trifid acuminate, 

 with large unequal acute teeth, smooth abuve, hardly 

 glaucous beneath, with nerves and margin pilose. Ra- 

 cemes compound. Berries small. On the banks of streams 

 from New York to Carolina- Flowers very sweet scent- 

 ed ; the sterile plant is cultivated under the name of 

 Bermuda vine and Mignonette vine, for the profusion of 



