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Var. 22. Syriaca. Syrian Grape. Large, of a delicious 

 flavor, juicy, red or black. 1. Damascus black. 2. Jeru- 

 salem, red musky. 3. Morillon, black early. 4. Morella 

 of Italy. 5. Lisbon juicy, black. 6. Black Frontignac, 

 musky, smaller. 7. Grisly, mixt of red, brown, and 

 yellow. 



V^ar. 23. Malvagia. Malvesy Grape. Similar to Malm- 

 sey, but rounder and musky, white or yellow. I.Cyprus. 

 2. Sicily. 3. Yellow. 4. Mingrelia or prolific, bunches 

 10 to 301b. 



Var. 24. Laxa. Loose Grape. Petioles slender and 

 gray, leaves hardly lobed, unequally sinuate : grapes 

 large white, loose. 1. Gouais of France. 2. Persian. 



Var. 25. Prolijica. Prolific Grape. Leaves thick, hard- 

 ly lobed, sinuate : grapes black, not sweet, austere, 

 middle size or small. 1. Common gamet. 2. Leaves tri- 

 iobe smaller. S.Grecian. Are great bearers, but make bad 

 Wine, and spoil the good. 



The above include all the chief varieties and subva- 

 rieties of what I consider as the original Wine Grape. 

 I shall next enumerate 15 other kinds, commonly con- 

 sidered as varieties, but widely different in the leaves, 

 &c. so as to aftbrd permanent specific distinctions. I 

 therefore propose them as species, or at least subspecies. 

 Linnxus deemed also the V. Zaanzosa a peculiar species. 



III. Series. Vines specifically dilFerent from the V. 

 vinifera. 



43. V. labrusca, Raf. Wild Grape. Branches trailing 

 striated. Petioles subequal pilose. Leaves ample cor- 

 date, 3 or 5 lobed, v/hitish beneath, (white when young) 

 smooth above, (hairy when young) lobes acute, coarsely 

 serrated. Racemes compound, short and lax, flowers all 

 fertile, petals pilose at the top. Berries globular, small, 

 black and acid. Native of Italy, Greece, Sicily, Bar- 

 bary, &c. the only wild Grape of Europe, deemed by 

 some the original of all the cultivated Grapes, by others 

 a degenerated kind : both opinions appear false, since it 

 is known by history that the Wine Grape came from 

 Asia, and that it does not change into Labrusca. The 

 blossoms are fragrant as in our V. riparia, and the ber- 

 ries like the American Chicken Grapes, quite spherical, 

 not eatable nor suitable for Wine, 



