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or less cordate or reniforin at the base, and toothed on 

 the margin, with five branched nerves and deciduous 

 stipules. Flowers in bunches, thyrsoidal or paniculate, 

 small, more or less fragrant, greenish yellow, complete 

 or pistiliferous or staminiferous, on 3 different indivi- 

 duals, blossoming in May and June. Fruit from the size 

 of a pea to that of a plumb. 



I. Series. Frondarania. Raf. Berries globular or de- 

 pressed. Leaves tomentose beneath, tomentum arach- 

 noidal colored, yellow, fulvous, rufous, rusty, white, 

 cinerous or glaucous. 



1. Sp. Vitis fulva,^?S. ( F. esf/uaZis of many botanists, 

 not of Mx. nor Elliot.) Yellow Grape. Branches tomen- 

 tose. Petioles shorter. Leaves broad cordate, 3 or 5 lobed, 

 unequally dentate, sinusses rounded, yellow or fulvous 

 beneath. Racemes oblong. Berries round and small. It 

 grows from Canada to Virginia, on rocky river banks. 

 The leaves become smoother when old ', the fruits are 

 commonly of a deep bluish purple, and are ripe in Au- 

 gust. The varieties are : 1. Slnuata, leaves sinuate pal- 

 mate, coarsely toothed. 2. Qmnqueloba, all the leaves 

 with 5 lobes. 3. CoraUina, leaves yellow beneath, fruit 

 larger, of a fine red color and delicious taste. In Vir- 

 ginia, perhaps a peculiar species, called Red Grape and 

 Coral Grape. 



2. V. ursina, Raf. Raccoon Grape. Branches striated, 

 fulvous toinentose. Petioles shorter fulvous tomentose. 

 Leaves reniform 5 lobed, base reniform, sinusses round- 

 ed, lobes oval acuminate, Avith a few large teeth, pubes- 

 cent above, rusty gray beneath, nerves fulvous. From 

 Ohio to Louisiana and Texas, near streams, called Bear 

 and Raccoon Grape, because greedily eaten by these 

 animals. Grapes of middle size, commonly purplish, 

 ripe in September and October. Young leaves rusty be- 

 neath. Var. 1. CerMZea, berries dark blue. 2. Prolifera. 

 3. Repens. 4. Mba. 5. Hcterophylla. 6. Triloba. 



3. V. saxatilis, Raf. Stony Grape. See figure I. or 

 A. for variety Zon^ipes. Branches flexuose nearly smooth. 

 Petioles villose variable. Leaves variable cordate, often 

 trilobed, lobes divaricate ovate acuminate, with distant 

 acute teeth, sinusses rounded, rugose and pilose above, 

 gray beneath. Among stones in Arkansas and Texas, 



