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These occur more frequently than the dioecious ; and if 

 imperfect flowers occur, then, of course, we have very 

 imperfect bunches of fruit, although this may not always 

 be owing to a deformed stigma, but to an insufficient sup- 

 ply of pollen, owing to deformed stamens. The Tailor 

 grape (white) and Oporto (black) are striking illustrations 

 of perfect and imperfect flowers in the same cluster. 

 But the imperfections in the flowers of these seem to be 

 mostly in the stamens, they being very much deformed ; 



for when the cap or petals 

 drop off, the stamens are 

 bent down, as seen, B, in 

 Fig. 3 ; not standing erect, 

 as shown in Fig. 2. 



Fig. 4 represents a fair 

 sample of the bunches pro- 

 duced upon a vigorous vine 

 of the Taylor. Some of 

 the bunches may contain 

 more perfect berries than 

 the one from which this 

 engraving was made, and 

 others with not more than 

 two or three perfect ones. 

 The small, undeveloped 

 berries are those that were 

 FIG - 4 - not fertilized. Other vari- 



eties of this class show the same phenomenon, and all 

 that I have examined exhibit more or less the deformed 

 stamens, as shown in Fig. 3. The Taylor is a pure 

 native variety, belonging to what appears to be a distinct 

 species, found growing along the Alleghany range, from 

 Southern New York to Alabama, and along the banks of 

 those streams that flow from these mountains. It prob- 

 ably is also found near the Rocky Mountains, as several 

 varieties I have received from Nebraska and Kansas 

 appear to be the same species. 



