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Vitis Baudiniana, F. v. Mueller. (Cissus Antarctica, Yentenat.) 



East Australia. With Y. hypoglauca, the most southern of alL 

 Grapes, none extending to New Zealand. It is evergreen, and a 

 vigorous plant for bowers, but suffers even from slight frosts. The 

 berries are freely produced and edible, though not large. 



Vitis cordifolia, Michaux.* (Vitis riparia, Michaux.) 



The Winter Grape or Frost Grape. From Canada to Florida. A 

 deciduous Yine. The scent of the flowers reminds of Reseda. The 

 berries are small, either blackish or amber-colured, and very acid. 

 They can be used for preserves, and are only fully matured when 

 touched by frosts. A succession of seedlings may give us a superior 

 and simultaneously a very hardy Yine. 



Vitis hypoglauca, F. v. Mueller. 



East Australia, as far south as Gippsland. An evergreen climber 

 of enormous length, forming a very stout stem in age. The black 

 berries attain the size of small cherries. This species also may 

 perhaps be vastly changed in its fruit by continued culture. 



Vitis Indica, Linne. 



On the mountains of various parts of India, ascending to an 

 altitude of 3,000 feet in Ceylon. The small berries are edible. 

 The plant should be subjected to horticultural experiments. This 

 is an apt opportunity to draw attention to the various Indian 

 species of Yitis with large edible berries for instance, Y. 

 laevigata (BL), Y. thyrsiflora (Miq.), Y. mutabilis (Bl.), Y. 

 Blumeana (Steud.), all from the mountains of Java, and all pro- 

 ducing berries as large as cherries, those of Y. Blumeana being 

 particularly sweet. Further may here be inserted Y. imperialis 

 (Miquel) from Borneo, Y. auriculata (Wallich) and Y. elongata 

 (Wallich) ; the latter two from the mountainous mainland of 

 Coromandel, and all producing very large juicy berries, even in the 

 jungle wilderness. Y. quadrangularis (L.) stretches from Arabia 

 to India and Central Africa, and has also edible fruits. Many 

 such plants may be far more eligible for grape culture in hot wet 

 climes than the ordinary Yine. About 250 species of Yitis are 

 already known, mostly from intratropical latitudes, and mostly 

 evergreen ; but in regard to their elevation above the ocean and to 

 the nature of their fruits we are almost utterly without data. 



Vitis Labrusca, Linne. * 



The Isabella Grape. North America, from Canada to Texas and 

 Florida, also in Japan. The Schuylkill Grape is derived from this 

 species. A pale-fruited variety furnishes the Bland's Grape ; 

 another yields the American Alexander Grape. The berries are 



