202 GRAPE FAMILY 



Vitis Linn 6 1753 

 (The classical Latin name of the Vine) 



Climbing or trailing woody vines, rarely shrubby, mostly with tendrils ; 

 leaves simple, (in our species), usually palmately lobed or dentate; flow- 

 ers in a compound thyrse, very fragrant, mostly dioecious or polygamo- 

 dioecious, calyx very short, usually with a nearly entire border or none 

 at all, petals 5, separating only at the base and falling without expanding, 

 hypogynous disk of 5 nectar-bearing glands, alternate with the stamens; 

 fruit a globose or ovoid berry, few-seeded and pulpy, seeds with a beak- 

 like base. 



A genus of about 40 species, natives of warm and temperate regions. 

 In addition to the following some other species occur in the southern and 

 western parts of the United States. 



\j. lakrusca. 

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Key to the Species 



1. Lower leaf surface velvety or woolly, berries 



large, cultivated V. Labrusca 



2. Lower leaf surface nearly smooth, berries small, V. vulpina 



native. 



