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all. As I have not seen this species, I have chiefly relied 

 on Elliot's description. The leaves are 2 or 3 inches 

 long and broad. It blossoms in July and August : 6 to 

 8 flowers to the branches of the racemes. The fruit is 

 large, 7 to 9 lines in diameter, oblate spheroidal or 

 flattened, with a thick skin, purplish or bluish black ; 

 taste pleasant, sweet and musky, makes a very good 

 wine. 



33. V. angulafa, Raf. See tab. 99, fig. D. Angular 

 Grape. Branches cespitose, stiff, angular and striated, 

 smooth and purple. Petioles subequal slender subpilose. 

 Leaves small cordate rounded obtuse, with a few large 

 lobular obtuse teeth, base acute, lobes divaricate, shin- 

 ing on both sides, axilla of thenerves bearded, margin 

 subpilose. Fruit black, sweet and juicy. From Carolina 

 to Arkansas and Texas, in glades, forming a bush, sel- 

 dom climbing. Cultivated at Bartram's garden. Many 

 vulgar names, Arkansas, Bushy, Currant, and False 

 Scupernong Grape. Leaves hardly bigger than a dollar, 

 sometimes purplish beneath : the young ones sparingly 

 pilose on the nerves beneath, as in the series Lasipia. 

 Old leaves nearly smooth, angles of the stem acute, fruit 

 small, good. 



34. V, verrucosa, Raf. Warty Grape. Branches round, 

 stiff, smooth, warty or dotted. Petioles short, smooth. 

 Leaves broad reniform acute, with large acute teeth, 

 base subtruncate reniform, both sides lucid and smooth. 

 Berries large, sweet, and juicy. From Carolina to Ar- 

 kansas. This is another of the Scupernong Grapes ; this 

 name is given in Carolina to all the good juicy grapes. 

 Leaves 2 inches broad, 1^ long, petioles 1 inch. The 

 fruit is white, sweet and good. 



35. V. pettata, Raf. or V. floridana. Florida Grape. 

 Petioles short and smooth. Leaves drooping, ovate cor- 

 date acute, base subpeltate, split acutely, lobes approxi- 

 mated, large acute teeth all around, smooth and green 

 on both sides, beneath nerves reticulated prominent with 

 bearded axillas. A very singular species, lately found in 

 Florida, and communicated to me by Mr. Halsey. The 

 leaf is very small, I5 inch long, one broad, petioles half 

 of the leai : a prominent net work beneath, formed by 



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