GRAPE VINES. l3 



thin gkin and white sweet musky juice. Many names 

 given to it, Madeira Grape, although a true native, Maz- 

 zei Grape, Powell Grape, Clifton Grape, &c. The rai- 

 sins de Cote, or Sand Grape of Louisiana, appear only 

 a variety. The leaves are arachnoidal at first, but often 

 become nearly smooth when old. Many var. 1. Flava, 

 grapes of a yellow white. 2. Viridis. Green Bland. Fruit 

 smaller, green when ripe, yet sweet and juicy, ripens 

 early in July near Catskill mountains. 3. Caroliniana. 

 Smaller grapes. 4. Arenaria. Sand Grape of Louisiana 

 and Arkansas. Leaves nearly smooth, except nerves be- 

 neath, but similar in shape, grapes dark blue, very 

 sweet, skin thicker. 5. Heteroloba. Oddleaf Grape. 

 Leaves with unequal lobes at the base and top, base 

 lobes approximated or overleaping, upper lobes larger 

 unequal sharp, with large teeth. In Ohio. Perhaps some 

 are peculiar species. - 



20. V. ciliata. Raf. See figure VI. or E. Elsinburg 

 Grape. Petioles striated hairy subequal. Leaves ovate 

 cordate 5 lobed, base with remote lobes, sinusses and 

 lobes narrow acute, teeth large remote ciliolate, hairy 

 above, dirty gray beneath, nerves fulvous gray. Berries 

 blue, large, very sweet and juicy. Found in New Jer- 

 sey. Begins to be cultivated, fruit as sweet as sugar, 

 somewhat like the Bland Grape, but blue, and leaves 

 totally different. 



II. Series. Lasijna. Berries globular or depressed. 

 Leaves more or less hairy beneath, or at least on the 

 nerves, but neither arachnoidal nor tomentose. 



£1. V. longifolia. Raf, See figure II. or B. Petioles 

 short and hairy. Leaves oblong cordate, sinus of the 

 base rounded, hardly trifid, or with two longer teeth 

 near the middle, end acuminate falcate, unequal sharp 

 teeth, pubescent above, liairy and gray beneath. Berries 

 blue and sweet. In Arkansas and Texas, bearing fine 

 blue grapes, very sweet. Cultivated by Mr. Hulin, in 

 Philadelphia. Leaves small, about 4 inches long, less 

 than 3 broad, petiole 2 inches : branches slender, round 

 and smooth : old leaves nearly smooth. 



22. V. dimidiata. Raf. Orwisburg Grape. Branches 

 slender striated smooth. Petioles subequal slender, stri- 

 ated and nearly smooth. Leaves thin, oval reniform tri- 



