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VITACE2E. (VINE FAMILY.) 
opposite the leaves. Flowers small, greenish, polygamous 
in all the American species. 
1« VITIS, L. Grape-Vine. 
Calyx with a nearly entire border. Petals separating at the 
base sooner than at the apex, and so usually falling off together 
without expanding. Base of the ovary girt with a 4-5-lobed 
ring, or 4 - 5 glands alternate with the stamens. Flowers fra¬ 
grant in a compound thyrsus: pedicels mostly umbellate-clustered. 
(The Latin name of the Vine.) 
* Leaves clothed with rusty or whitish wool beneath , at least when young. 
1. V. Labrusca, L. (Northern Fox Grape.) Branchlets 
and young leaves very woolly ; leaves continuing woolly beneath, round 
heart-shaped, variously angled and lobed, obtusely toothed; fertile 
panicles compact; berries large (£'-|'in diameter). — Moist thick¬ 
ets, common. June. — Berries ripe in Sept., dark purple or amber- 
color, with a tough musky pulp. Improved by cultivation, it has giv¬ 
en rise to the Isabella Grape , &c. 
^ • *®Stivalis, Michx. (Summer Grape.) Young leaves 
doicny icith loose cobwebby hairs beneath , smoothish when old , green 
above, variously 3-5-lobed, with the sinuses rounded, coarsely tooth¬ 
ed ; fertile panicles compound; berries small (£') black with a bloom. 
— Thickets, common, climbing high. June. — Berries pleasant, ripe 
in Oct. 
* * Leaves green on both sides , thin. 
3 v. Cordifblia, Michx. (Winter or Frost Grape.) 
rounded heart-shaped , sharply and coarsely toothed, scarcely 
lobed, smooth , as well as the stalks , or sparsely beset with hairs on 
the veins beneath; berries small ($/) black-blue with a copious 
bloom. Thickets, common. June. — Berries very acerb till frost, 
then edible and spicy, but sour. 
4. V* l ip alia, Michx. (River-side Frost Grape.) Leaves 
heart-shaped, commonly 3-lobed, unequally and very sharply cut- 
toot led, the larger teeth and lobes long-pointed, the veins beneath 
and the young stalks more or less pubescent; berries small, greenish- 
amber color or purple.-W. New England to Penn, and Mich- 
N’ 110 3 ^ UDe well distinguished, and probably not distinct from 
V. \ ulpina, L., the Fox Grape or Muscadine of the Southern 
States (V. rotundifolia, Michx.), is a well-marked species, with a fruit 
quite as large as m No. 1, with a musky flavor: it mav be expected 
to occur in W. Pennsylvania. 
