8 THE GRAPE CULTUKIST. 



GROUP 8. MUSCADINLE. (Southern Fox Grape.) 



Vine slender, canes short-jointed, angled, tendrils 

 intermittent, buds very small, globose, brown, when 

 unfolding dull brownish -green ; leaves small, round, or 

 somewhat cordate, very coarsely toothed with broad 

 bluntish teeth, thin and smooth on both sides ; clusters 

 small, loose ; peduncle short ; berries small in Munsoni- 

 ana, and shining black ; without pulp or musky odor or 

 taste, but very large and musky in the V. rotundifolia, 

 or common Scuppernong grape of the Southern States. 



Vitis rotundifolia, Michaux. All Southern States east of 100 longitude 



and south of 38 latitude. 

 Vitis Munsoniana, Simpson. Central and South Florida. 



According to the preceding classification, we have 

 twenty-five species of the grape indigenous to North 

 America, instead of less than half that number, as given 

 in the older botanical works ; but the later botanists have 

 had much better opportunities of examining the wild 

 vines than the earlier investigators, hence their conclu- 

 sions are all the more deserving of credence ; besides, if 

 not absolutely perfect, they will do no harm, and may 

 aid present and future investigators in determining the 

 true relation of our various species and varieties. 



In the following table, from the monograph referred 

 to on a preceding page, the species and varieties are 

 arranged in a convenient form for study, with name of 

 botanist who first described them, where found, etc. : 



Genus VITIS, Tournefort (Linnaeus in part"). 



(Explanation: H. Hardy north; H. H. Half-hardy north; 

 T. Tender north.] 



SECTION l.Euvitis. Planchon. 



Specific 



_, number. 



Series 1. Riparice. 



Vitis rupestris(Schee\e),PL 1 



Vitis riparia (Michaux), H. ( V. palmata, Vahl) 2 



Vitis Soloiris (Hort. Berol.), H 3 



Vitis Doaniana (Munsou), H 4 



