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4. V. indivisa, Willd. Leaves simple, undivided, ovate, truncate, or cor- 

 date at the base, acuminate, toothed-serrate, pubescent ; peduncles forking ; petals 

 and stamens 5 ; style slender; disk cup-shaped ; berry 1 3-seedcd. Banks of 

 rivers, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. June. Stem climbing high. 

 Berry small, black. 



2. VITIS. Flowers polygamous: petals 5, cohering at the top, free at the base: 

 stamens 5 : style short : disk thick, 5-lobed : leaves simple, cordate, entire or variously 

 lobed. 



* Leaves and branches woolly. 



5. V. Labrusca, L. (Fox-GRAPE.) Leaves broadly cordate, angularly 

 3 -5-lobed, mucronatc-scrrate, very woolly when young, at length smoothish 

 above; fertile panicles or racemes few-flowered; berry large. River-swamps, 

 Mississippi to North Carolina, and northward. May and June. Leaves 4' - 6' 

 wide. Berry \' in diameter, purple or whitish, pleasant-flavored. 



6. V. Caribsea, DC Leaves round-cordate, with a broad and shallow 

 sinus, entire or 3-lobcd, wavy-serrate, acute or acuminate, soon smooth above, 

 the lower surface, like the bi'anches, petioles, and panicles, clothed with soft ash- 

 colored down ; panicles equalling or longer than the leaves ; pedicels smooth. 

 (V. coriacea, Shuttl. ? a form with smaller and more rigid leaves.) South 

 Florida. Berry J' in diameter. 



7. V. sestivalis, Michx. (SUMMER GRAPE.) Leaves broadly cordate, 

 entire or 3- 5-lobed, or on young plants pinnatifid, mucronate-serrate, covered 

 with a loose cobwebby down, at length smooth or nearly so on both sides ; pani- 

 cles long, many- flowered ; berry small. Rich woods, Florida to Mississippi, 

 and northward. June. Stem climbing high. Leaves 4' -7' wide. Panicle 

 6' -12' long, compound. Berry deep blue, very austere. 



* * Leaves and branches smoothish. 



8. V. COrdifolia, Michx. (FROST GRAPE.) Leaves thin, broadly cor- 

 date, entire or slightly 3-lobed, mucronate-serrate; pubescence, when present, 

 soon vanishing ; panicles compound, many-flowered ; berry small. River- 

 swamps, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. May and June. Leaves 3' - 6' 

 wide. Berry almost black, very acid. A form with broader incisely lobed and 

 toothed leaves is V. riparia, Michx. 



9. V. VUlpina, L. (MUSCADINE. BULLACE.) Leaves broadly cordate, 

 toothed-serrate, smooth and glossy on both sides, or rarely, like the branches, 

 pubescent, the sinus at the base broad and rounded, or narrow and acute ; panicle 

 small; berry large. (V. rotundifolia, Michx.) Banks of rivers, Florida to 

 North Carolina, and westward. June. Stem climbing high, with pale and 

 smooth bark. Leaves 2' -3' wide. Berry '-|'in diameter, purple, pleasant- 

 flavored. A form with smaller leaves and berries, the latter very austere, is 

 sometimes called the MUSTANG GRAPE. 



2. AMPELOPSIS, Michx. 



Petals distinct, spreading, concave. Disk none. Leaves digitate. Flowers 

 clustered, in corymbose panicles. 



